Ruben Amorim maintains he is “confident” in his work despite his Manchester United side slipping to yet another defeat this evening at Tottenham Hotspur.
It was another case of fine margins for the Red Devils, who were undone once again by their inability to convert their chances and could have pulled at least one back after James Maddison scored the only goal of the game in the first half.
Speaking to BBC Match of the Day, Amorim said: “It was the difference of the game, they scored and we didn’t. We had the opportunities. We had situations in transitions, trying to get a result, but in the end they scored and we didn’t.”
Injuries and illness ravaged the United squad in the lead-up to the Spurs match, leaving Amorim with just one senior player on his bench and a real problem in terms of depth.
The manager said: “We want to recover the players, I think we can recover some players for the next game. We have to be together to finish the season and start over.”
Amorim made just one substitution, bringing young striker Chido Obi on for Casemiro in the 91st minute – the 17-year-old didn’t even touch the ball, but did get his first senior minutes under his belt.
However, he explained that he is being mindful in how he uses the academy prospects who he had to fill his bench with.
“It is the hardest competition in the world,” he said. “I am trying to be careful with them. I felt the team was pushing for the goal and I felt I don’t want to change. But they will play.”
“You try to read the game, understand what you see in training. The team were pushing for the goal and I didn’t feel the need to change.”
Amorim has been in post for more than three months now, and is certainly feeling the pressure as United’s results show little to no improvement from Erik ten Hag’s time in charge.
But the 40-year-old is remaining grimly optimistic. He said: “I am not worried. I understand our fans, what the media think about it. I hate to lose, that feeling is the worst.
“The rest I am not thinking about. I am here to help my players. I understand my situation, my job, I am confident on my work and I just want to win games.
“The place in the table is my worry, I am not worried about me.”
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Joe Ponting
Joe has spent more than half his life writing about football and all of it following United. As a child he told a doctor his name was ‘Paul Scholes’, but could never pick a pass like him no matter how much he tried.
