When Manchester United had reached his “new low”, Ruben Amorim also gave rise to any hope of improvement.
“I think the players have expressed very clearly today what they want,” said the coach of the English football record champion after the embarrassing league-off at fourth division Grimsby Town and added: “Something has to change and you can’t just replace 22 players again.”
The 11:12 in a marathon penalty shootout in the first round of the League Cup had once again shaked United in its foundations. And Amorim, who has not been able to control the stumbling giants since his arrival last November, has to worry about his job again after only three competitive games in the new season. Especially since United had never lost to a fourth division club.
The defeat against Grimsby is “one of the worst results in club history”, the BBC judged the “new low”. A “dark, miserable united” was experienced on Wednesday evening, the Daily Mail wrote.
Especially since Amorim hadn’t spared his stars – and after an early 0-2 deficit through goals by Bryan Mbumo (75th) and Harry Maguire (89th), they were only saved into the penalty shootout.
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His team was “completely lost”, emphasized Amorim. According to the Portuguese, he thinks “the limit is reached”. In the Premier League, Amorim’s team has only one point in the account after two games, since United has only scored 28 points in 29 league games.
The record champions had completed the pre -season in 15th place, the worst placement since 1974.
Accordingly, Amorim was increasingly perplexed on Wednesday evening. “I would like to say very smart and important things. But I have nothing to say,” he emphasized: “I’m really sorry for our fans. Sometimes it’s just too much.”
You have to concentrate on the next game in the league against promoted FC Burnley, Amorim said, and then “we have time to make decisions”.