Manchester United gaffer Ruben Amorim has admitted that the way his team played to get positive results against Liverpool and Arsenal will be different from how they approach their upcoming games.
Despite sitting 14th in the league, two months into Amorim’s reign, the Red Devils have recorded a 2-1 win at Manchester City, a 2-2 draw at Liverpool and a penalty shootout win against Arsenal in the FA Cup with 10 men.
However, the lack of consistency has got the Portuguese coach thinking of what is to come.
“Yeah, I’m always concerned because we didn’t have, during these games, the consistency in performances, in results. So always worried,” Amorim said to reporters on Wednesday.
“This next game will teach me more about my players than the last two… fans will expect more tomorrow. We have to deliver.”
Amorim also said he is not buckling under the pressure to perform.
“In the last years we haven’t won the league. In the past here, if you didn’t win the league one year you would have to win it the next. I don’t feel that pressure,” he added.
“When you have the pressure to win that is the pressure we want. Sometimes it’s hard. Against Arsenal and Liverpool, nobody was expecting us to beat those teams but now we have to be prepared for that pressure, we need that pressure as a team and face the game the right way.”
However, the 39-year-old also believes it was going to take time to get the team to play by his own preference.
“We don’t spend a lot of time during games in the last third with the ball,” he continued.
“I understand in this moment it is ok to play like that against Liverpool and Arsenal… but in the future you cannot play like that, and I know that. But we need time to build a different way of playing. In the future we are going to focus a lot on that.”
