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Amorim’s reaction to Carabao Cup exit
Thursday 19 December 2024 22:45
Ruben Amorim felt his Manchester United side were the better team but Tottenham were more clinical in Thursday night’s Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat.
The Reds were beaten 4-3 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and exit the competition, despite producing a spirited comeback in the second half.
Amorim believed his team had good control in the first half but cited a “disconnect” early in the second period, when Spurs stormed into a 3-0 lead, which ultimately proved costly.
Watch our head coach’s post-match interview with MUTV and read what he had to say to Sky Sports below…
I LIKED OUR FIGHT
“We showed that in the past games also when we were losing in difficult moments. We disconnect in the beginning of the second half, it was a tough moment for us, like 10 minutes. And then we return, I think we did a great job. I think if you look at all the game, I think we were the best team but they [Spurs] were more clinical. We lose the game but the fight from the lads was really important for me.”
GOOD CONTROL IN THE FIRST HALF
“Yeah, you could see it and feel it in the stadium. The team were comfortable and we dominated the possession. I don’t think it was the last pass, I think it was the last shot because, in my mind, Chris [Eriksen] [had] two times in the same position they scored two goals. We couldn’t score. It can happen.”
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIGH LINE
“We know that this team [Spurs] play with a high line. When they switch sides, they try to push us so we tried to take advantage of that. I felt a little bit a lack of physicality in those balls because we had the position and we have to work on that. Overall, it was a good match but there is no taste in that. We didn’t win, we need to focus on the next game.”
DISCONNECT AT START OF SECOND HALF
“It’s to start and they score a goal and then, in these types of games, we need to have long possession in the next possession. Then we started losing the ball again, we started doing bad passes in the build-up when the team is open so we were a little bit nervous in that moment. But then we managed to recover, it’s not easy but it was not enough.”
WHAT I HAVE LEARNED TONIGHT
“I will think about that tomorrow. Tonight I don’t feel nothing. There is nothing I can say to you. Tomorrow I will have a lot of things because I saw the game. Tonight we lost and we have to take a night to think and then tomorrow we will have a lot of good things from this game.”
THE GOAL REMAINS THE SAME
“We cannot think in that way, that winning silverware makes everything okay. It will be a long way. We are improving as a team and our goal, I say the same thing after the game and before the game, our goal is to win the Premier League. How long it’s going to take? I don’t know but that is our goal.”
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