Amorim on Manchester Utd comeback 3-1 southampton win
16/01/2025
Old `trafford, Manchester, `uk
16/01/2025
Old `trafford, Manchester, `uk
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00:30Ruben, congratulations. What did you say to Armando when he got into the dressing room?
00:34I didn't say nothing. I will tell him tomorrow that he has to rest, eat good food to prepare,
00:40that Sunday we need him again. He did a great job, it's a great moment for a young kid to
00:48score an at-rick for a club like this, but he needs to focus on the next match because
00:54this is already in the past, and prepare the next game.
00:57Did you think he or your team were capable of doing that when you get to 80 minutes?
01:05You always believe, I have to believe, but with the chance that, for example,
01:11Antonio misses, then you have that feeling that let's go again.
01:16A difficult night with our fans and everything is so fresh, the three losses that we had,
01:23but we managed to turn things around and in the end we didn't do a good job, a good game,
01:33but if you look at all the opportunities I think we deserve to win, but we have to improve a lot.
01:39You said ahead of this game you'd learn more about your players than the previous two games,
01:45having seen that you're not very concerned, you seem panicky, lack of composure, a bit desperate,
01:51is that not a big thing?
01:53Yeah, I think it's not panic. In the first half we were too late to every ball and we tried to
02:01press a little bit high and we suffered with that. Mateus between the lines, Dibbling between
02:06the lines, Suleymane with the pace, it's a different game from Liverpool and Arsenal,
02:14we have to stretch the team more, we let Lenny all the time one against one with more spaces to cover
02:22and we suffer more, so I think it's not panic. We need and I need to understand the game,
02:29why we suffer in these kind of games and not sometimes in the big games where we are more
02:34compact, more near the ball when we win the ball, so I pay attention to all the things and
02:41this game was not a lack of effort. They try it but Ugarte was really tired since the first
02:49minute and you feel it when he ran for the ball and tried to receive the ball and all that stuff,
02:55so I look at the game, try to understand the game to improve my plays and help the team to be better.
03:00But why is he tired? I think you said generally your players are tired,
03:03the top professionals, surely they should be able to not be tired?
03:07I don't know, I need to improve the training, sometimes the recovery of the players,
03:13I don't know, I have to help them, but after these two games were really hard on the team
03:20and sometimes we are tired not just the body but the mind. But like I said it's a different game,
03:28we have to press more, the space is bigger, we are discomfortable in the game and then
03:35if we don't manage the ball for so long we suffer and we feel it in the first half.
03:42So Tampton left three against three in the back and we couldn't use that space,
03:49we lost the duel, so I understand the game, I can see the game, I will watch it
03:53and I will try to help the team improve.
03:57Did you have a chance to enjoy your trip?
04:03Yes, I had five minutes with him to talk about different things about the game,
04:11it was not a good game but in the end the result helped the conversation.
04:17So we continue doing our job, it's a really difficult moment but today was more important
04:24than the win. I know the fans want to see so much better football than this, but we need time.
04:34Like I said in the first days here, to win time we need to win games. We did that today,
04:39not in a good fashion, but we managed to win and we are going to prepare for the next game.
04:46The pass from Eriksen to Amar was fabulous, will you get more opportunities to play in the future?
04:54It depends on the players, the work that they do. He has the quality to do that kind of passes
05:03and we need all the players to win games.
05:0710 minutes or 19 minutes, all the players are important to change the course of the season.
05:15Hi Ruben, Oli from Luganski Sport here.
05:17Ahmed Patrick, 22 years old, six goals, six assists.
05:22What does that do for his confidence but also the confidence of the whole club?
05:26The important thing is to win and he helped us to win. He is doing a very good season.
05:37And that's it. I already spoke about this, we have to be careful with the young kids.
05:42He did a really good job today, he has a lot to improve.
05:47But this game is in the past, we need to prepare for the future.
05:49In football life is like this.
05:54Congratulations to him, to all the team.
05:57Enjoy tonight, it's a very good moment and he needs to appreciate these moments.
06:01But tomorrow he is going to recover and we have to prepare for the next game.
06:05And since coming into the club, since you've arrived here,
06:07have you had any expectations on any particular player at all?
06:11And all the players. I have the biggest expectations for all.
06:15I'm trying to be really demanding with them.
06:20On the other side of that problem, I also understand when they try it but they cannot do it.
06:27I understand when the pressure of playing at home sometimes is harder than playing away.
06:33I understand that sometimes the demands of controlling the game,
06:40all the game against this opponent, sometimes is harder than to face a big team
06:45with zero expectations from everybody.
06:48So I understand these kind of details and I will try to help them to be better players and better team.
06:53You mentioned controlling the game, how are you going to take this to the next game?
06:58It's improving what we did wrong in this game.
07:02It's a different game. Today was a game man to man.
07:06The next game is going to be a completely different game with a different team,
07:11with a different coach.
07:12So I will try to explain in one day what kind of team we are going to face,
07:17what we need to improve and try to reduce those two things.
07:23And that's it, to try to win the next game.