Spurs' victory the previous week against Bournemouth was an important point for them because they are now only 1 point behind their city team, namely Arsenal. With Arsenal's current situation, Spurs definitely want to force the Gunners to go down immediately and if Arsenal still suffers another defeat in the next match then Spurs can make good use of this. Arsenal is a top team that is inconsistent because in the last 5 matches they only won 1 time and most of the defeats they suffered were against teams they should have beaten.
If in the next match Spurs can steal points at Old Trafford, Manchester United's headquarters, then it is clear that they will put more pressure on Arsenal and that could raise the confidence of coach Ange's men to return to the top flight. Meanwhile, Arsenal will play Crystal Palace and to be honest, this is a match that will again make Arsenal difficult and I don't guarantee they can win easily.
There are at least 5 teams that have a very tight point difference in the standings, one of which is Tottenham who are ranked 5th, yes they have the opportunity to shift Arsenal who are in 4th position.
Looking at the meeting between Manchester United vs Tottenham, looking at the statistics of these two teams Tottenham has much better statistics than Manchester United. from the last 5 matches of each team, Manchester United only got 1 win, while Tottenham got 4 wins. This match will be played at Manchester United headquarters, but we can see Manchester United's record despite playing at home.
Currently, comparing clubs that are in top 5 positions in the points table very difficult because some of these clubs have not been able to perform consistently and there are still lots of surprises happening, but according to my predictions, it looks like Liverpool will be the strongest challenger to Manchester city because currently MC will soon recover because the players he relied on have recovered and will soon return to help Manchester City win first place.
If Haaland and De Bruyne can really appear again, I'm sure Arsenal, Aston Villa and Tottenham will be eliminated slowly and won't be given the opportunity to replace them again and for Manchester United I'm not sure they can get satisfactory results even if they compete at home Tottenham held the match to a draw or even Tottenham would have won.