Amorim’s team under two goals in the first half against Grimsby, finds the draw but then falls 12-11 at the end of an infinite sequence from the spot. By Mbeumo the decisive error
Ruben Amorim keeps his head down on the bench, without looking. Bryan Mbeumo, purchase of 82 million euros in the umpteenth market that should save Manchester United, is preparing from the spot for the 26th penalty of what, in the home of the Grimsby Town, should have been an easy second round match of Carabao Cup against a team of League Two, the fourth division. The Red Devils in perennial crisis managed to get out of it with a historical fool, after having avoided doing it at the end of the 90 ‘reassembling from 2-0 to 2-2: the penalty of Mbeumo ends up on the crossbar, to the delight of the 8,000 fans of this team of a fishing town overlooking the North Sea, far from great football. Manchester United at the moment also seems very far from great football, and not because it is outside the League Cup: it is trapped in a perennial crisis, in a continuous fall towards a bottom that is never seen. In a season painfully without Europe, the Carabao Cup could have been an opportunity to resume winning something: it turns into yet another disaster that risks shaking the very uncertain foundations that Ruben Amorim was trying to build for its version of the Red Devils.
crisis
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Yes, the season will also have just begun, the market not yet concluded, but this disaster in Grimsby makes Manchester United sink into yet another crisis. Because those progress that Amorim had promised are not seen: in the premier the Red Devils began by losing 1-0 at Old Trafford with Arsenal, playing well, and on Sunday they did not go beyond 1-1 at Fulham, creating the best opportunities in the first half but seriously risking to lose. On the market Ihanno spent 244 million euros, almost everyone to redo the attack with Benjamin Sesko, Bryant Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha. Amorim in these first weeks continues to preach patience, stubbornly faithful to his 3-4-2-1 which is convinced sooner or later he will fit united by brush. Only that it still does not happen. The technician has agreed for 9 months to leave Sporting Lisbon to take the great decay of English football in progress: in 2024-25 he arrived in the Europa League final, losing it with Tottenham, but he also closed the worst season of United in the Premier League, in the end a 15th place with just 42 points and 18 defeats. The market will also have redone the attack and both Cunha and Mbeumo, despite the errors from the spot to Grimsby, seem to be right purchases, but to make goals remains an immense effort for a team to the perennial search for an identity that no one has been able to give him for years.
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It does not help that the United environment remains toxic. Everything that happens around the Red Devils becomes negative, a perennial problem with which to have to deal. The market is continuously wrong, the talents that light up the fantasies of the fans are burned one after the other, as happened in Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo that only a year and a half ago seemed to be the certainty of a better future and which are now all out, after being questioned. It is one of the problems of United: everything is questioned in this phase. After Grimsby, an entire team ends up on the defendants’ bench and with him an fundamentalist coach, unable to change the module even when his men do not seem to have digested him, even when there was a need to fish the joker. The United had convinced himself that he had caught him with Amorim when he asked him to come and save him last November: this new fool risks resetting everything again.
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