Man Utd manager Amorim can’t run away from results’

Manchester United are presently successful the bottommost fractional of the Premier League, wherever they besides finished past season.

Manchester United brag Ruben Amorim defended his tactical approach, insisting his much-criticised 3-4-2-1 strategy is not to blasted for the team’s struggles arsenic helium prepares for his 50th crippled successful complaint against promoted Sunderland.

The Portuguese faces mounting unit aft United slumped to 14th successful the Premier League with 2 wins from six games aft past weekend’s 3-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Brentford prompted nine large Wayne Rooney to accidental helium had nary religion successful Amorim turning things around.

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With United already retired of the League Cup and having failed to suffice for Europe pursuing past season’s 15th-place finish, the unit is connected Amorim to present successful the league wherever they are already 8 points adrift of leaders Liverpool.

“You cannot tally distant from the results and past your baggage from past season. But past play for maine doesn’t matter. We’ve had six games this play and we’ve mislaid three. We person to look to the games that we lost,” Amorim told reporters connected Friday.

“I americium not saying this squad would play amended successful different strategy oregon not, that is not my point. My constituent is that if I look backmost astatine the games we lost, the astir important happening erstwhile I ticker the crippled is not that we mislaid due to the fact that of the system.

“That is my opinion. People person antithetic opinions, that s OK.”

While United’s squad are inactive coming to presumption with Amorim’s philosophy, the manager admitted his side’s show astatine Brentford was ‘disjointed’ but argued that inconsistency alternatively than tactics was the basal problem.

“You cannot accidental 1 happening that doesn’t enactment erstwhile it works connected 1 play and connected the different play it doesn’t work. When thing doesn’t work, it doesn’t enactment each day,” helium added.

“When it works 1 time and the different time it doesn’t, past the adjacent time it works truly good again, it is thing astir the mode we bash the aforesaid thing. So we request to bash the aforesaid happening successful the aforesaid mode each day, and we are not doing that.”

Asked if helium had a connection for the fans to springiness them anticipation of a triumph astatine Old Trafford connected Saturday, Amorim said: “It is not clip to say, it is clip to show.”

Amorim was generous successful his praise for Sunderland’s French brag Regis Le Bris, who has guided his broadside to 5th spot successful the standings aft six games, 4 points down Liverpool.

“It is simply a squad that plays truly well. It is simply a wide strategy with a batch of rotations connected the broadside of the pitch. They cognize we are going to beryllium nether unit and we request to beryllium capable to play with that,” Amorim said.

“It is not conscionable the array and each the results that matters most, but the mode they play. They person a wide identity. It is simply a precise bully manager and a precise bully team.”

United volition besides clasp a minute’s soundlessness and deterioration achromatic armbands pursuing Thursday’s onslaught astatine a synagogue successful Manchester successful which 2 men were killed.