Ruben Amorim reaction – Manchester United players ‘lack belief’, need training time after latest loss

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For perhaps the first time, Ruben Amorim’s post-match reaction may be about some mistakes he made and not just weaknesses from his Manchester United selection on the pitch. in a 2-0 loss on Monday.

The Red Devils trailed 2-0 to visiting Newcastle United at Old Trafford and looked set to leak more goals before Amorim made a sub in the 30th minute to change his original plans.

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There was always the risk of dissonance as Bruno Fernandes and Manuel Ugarte were absent and Amorim opted for a midfield duo of Christian Eriksen and Casemiro behind Joshua Zirkzee, Amad Diallo and Rasmus Hojlund.

It was strange to see Kobbie Mainoo on the bench against Newcastle’s superb, blistering midfield and the Magpies scored on crosses to the heart of the Red Devils’ back line. Lisandro Martinez had a rough day.

But Amorim believes this performance was more about the lack of training time he has had to deploy his system. That may be true, but it doesn’t look good right now.

Ruben Amorim’s reaction – Manchester United boss speaks out after early mess leads to loss against Newcastle

What went wrong in the first half: “We got a goal. In this moment it’s really difficult to come back. We tried, but without the quality, they don’t have the foundations of the way we play to cope with these moments. They are a better team. They controlled the game. Everything they did as a team. For us, it was more the players’ moments.”

If he could have done anything other than the 33rd minute Zirkzee/Mainoo sub: “If I think I could do something to change the result, I will do it. Like I said, it was more the belief of the players, less my job to change something. At the moment we don’t have training and we don’t have the base. When you’re in that tough moment, you need that base. They were better than us, plain and simple.”

How can they fix things? “Training, just spending every minute of training trying to improve the team to give them that base to handle every minute of the game.”