“My players thought too much during the match,” points out Amorim after his Manchester United debut

New Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said his players had “thinking too much during the match» Sunday in Ipswich (1-1), due to the new instructions to digest in a reduced time.

«I think my players thought too much during the match. You can feel it. They weren’t just thinking about the ball, but also about where they were supposed to be“, he commented on Sky Sports. The former Sporting coach, who arrived on November 11 at the start of the international break, recalled that his entire group had only trained “two days» together, which could also explain the shortcomings displayed on Sunday.

«If you look at the first half, we were a little scared,” he explained, with supporting example: “number 5 was always alone, we should have jumped on him». «But we haven’t had any training, it’s difficult to give all the instructions to the players. We had two days“, he insisted.

In understanding the match, I think we need to improve a lot.

Reuben Amorim

Manchester United opened the scoring after just 81 seconds but were caught before the break with a goal from Omari Hutchinson. “When you start a match like this, you score and then you have to control the ball. You have to control the tempo of the match“, he regretted. “We can’t do it right now, but they tried. They really, really tried».

The Portuguese coach has implemented his preferential system with three defenders, where his predecessor Erik ten Hag fielded four players, but he does not want to see this as an attenuating circumstance for his team. “Everyone talks about the 3-4-3 (system), that’s not the problem. A system is a system. But in understanding the match, I think we need to improve a lot“, he judged.

Manchester United remain twelfth after twelve days and face Everton next weekend at Old Trafford.