“Were completely lost”
One reaches “shocking low point”
Updated on August 28, 2025 – 03:22 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
Manchester United once stood at Europe’s top, now the club is falling through a fourth division. United coach Amorin then gives a remarkable interview.
End station Grimsby Town. The English football record champion Manchester United has embarrassed himself in the league trophy. The team of coach Ruben Amorim sensationally lost to the fourth league team Grimsby Town with 11:12 in the penalty shootout. After the regular season, it had been 2-2 – after the house -high favorite had already returned 0: 2. And almost even conceded the third goal.
It was only through goals by Bryan Mbumo and Harry Maguire that the English record champion came back in the second half, but then had to give up in a penalty shootout. Benjamin Sesko’s top transfer, Benjamin Sesko, could also make no difference. He played from the beginning for the first time, but remained pale over long distances of the game. The former Leipziger switched from the Bundesliga to the island for more than 80 million euros.
Other united players even afforded hair-raising dropouts. For example, goalkeeper Andre Onana. The Cameroonian national keeper could not hold a high flank and served the outsider the second goal on the silver platter.
It was not the goalkeeper’s first mistake. The United fans are already unless. In social media, they demanded to be replaced as number one. “Sold it. Immediately. He shouldn’t even be allowed to get on the bus anymore,” wrote an upgrade trailer at X. Another: “Onana is by far the worst obligation in club history”.
But even for coach Ruben Amorin, the air should be thin shortly after the start of the season. In any case, the Portuguese himself made little hope of quick improvement with his statements after the game. He took his goalkeeper out: “If you lose a fourth division club, it is not the goalkeeper (who costs you the game). It’s the entire team. Everything.”
However, Amorin also stated: “It doesn’t matter whether we recover from it. It is the sign that the team gave today.” The coach sounded frustrated, almost hopeless. They had started without any intensity, had no game idea. “We were completely lost,” said the former Sporting Lisbon coach.
“It is the whole environment, the way we go into these games,” said Amorin at “Sky”. However, his harsh criticism of the players was also self -criticism. Because the coaching team is usually responsible for the fact that the environment is intact. The coach sees itself against an enormous task, as he granted himself. “It will be a massive challenge, we have to pay attention to every detail, and then such an appearance today. This means that the players have sent a clear sign to me. I can’t say more. I’m sorry for the fans.”