Alex Ferguson kept faith with Rio Ferdinand as Manchester United sought to go top of the Premiership against Tottenham this afternoon.
Ferdinand was given an eight-month ban on Friday for his failure to take a drugs test and it was not clear he would be in the right frame of mind to play at White Hart Lane.
But the £30m (€42.8m) defender took his place in the starting line-up as United aimed to take over from Arsenal at the top of the table.
Tottenham v Man Utd teams
Tottenham: Keller, Carr, Taricco, Gardner, Richards, Anderton, Dalmat, King, Konchesky, Kanoute, Keane.
Subs: Hirschfeld, Postiga, Doherty, Poyet, Ricketts.
Man Utd: Howard, Gary Neville, O’Shea, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Fletcher, Keane, Phil Neville, Giggs, van Nistelrooy, Scholes.
Subs: Ronaldo, Butt, Carroll, Forlan, Fortune.
Referee: R Styles (Hampshire)