Manchester United’s new boy Senne Lammens has made an impressive start to life at Old Trafford.
Perfect start
The Belgian kept a clean sheet on his debut versus Sunderland before the international break.
He returned to keep goal in arguably the hardest fixture for a United keeper which is facing Liverpool at Anfield.
Lammens impressed, making one fine stop from Alexander Isak and generally exuded a remarkable calmness claiming high balls and tidying up after his defence.
In post-match comments carried by The Sun, Lammens was full of praise for under-fire manager Ruben Amorim.
What great managers do
Commenting on his impressions of the head coach so far he stated, “for me he’s always the same. I haven’t been here as long, so maybe it’s different for other guys. But for me as a coach he gets a lot of pressure, you can feel it from the outside, you can read it, you can hear it.”
Lammens pinpointed what he really respects about Amorim by asserting, “I think he does his best, and he does really good, tries to keep the pressure on him and not on the team. He takes a lot of the pressure from us, and that’s also what the great managers do.”
Defending long ball tactics
United were not that interested in building up from the back in yesterday’s 2-1 win at Anfield with Liverpool coach Arne Slot highlighting the fact.
Lammens defended the tactic though, claiming it was the sensible way to play in such a context.
He explained, “we know how they press, they’re gonna go man-v-man. So I think being realistic, coming into Anfield, it’s quite difficult to build up.”
The Belgian elaborated, “from the beginning with the defenders, I think I made the decision that we should get more of a long ball and do it with the second ball, even though we didn’t really have a target striker.”
Lammens also explained that the team’s crucial opening goal came as a result of a long punt upfield.
He also praised the team’s game tactics claiming they worked well and that they should stick to their current way of playing if it continues to see positive results.
Momentum
The 23 year old acknowledged that finding momentum is something this United team have struggled to do for a long time but he hopes that is about to change.
He explained, “and I think today could be a start of a good momentum, and we should next week at home as well. So with the fans behind us we should try to win that game as well.”
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Alex Browne
Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Alex has a Master’s degree from Queen’s University Belfast and La Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Having lived in the country since 2011, Alex is The Peoples Person’s Spanish football expert and is fluent in both Spanish and Catalan. He dreams of witnessing a United captain triumphantly hoisting the Premier League and Champions League trophy in the air once more.
