He really did rattle it in.
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Magic, none of this U shape over and back bullshit
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Second time in a couple of weeks that Utd concede becsuse Harry Maguire is playing offside on the half way line. Amorim is some tulip.
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It does seem to be reaching a consensus among everyone that he’s absolutely stone useless and there will no objections if he gets the boot. There were small positives with all the others but more or less none for him at this stage.
Although maybe there’s room to spin it that he was actually very hard done by and the club and fans are cunts.
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If you’re playing offside on the half way line you need your centre halves to be quick. Neither Maguire and De Ligt are built for speed. Either change the system or the players.
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Anyone with odds on next manager to leave their post in EPL? With Potter sacked and Nuno sacked it looks like Amorim has that market to himself if he’s sacked in the next six weeks.
Who’s next up then? Glasner looks the man of the moment
They have to give him next to nothing after the November
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Just seen oddschecker quoting betvictor at 4/9. I don’t know if anyone else is out. If that market was on betfair exchange with any sort of decent liquidity that price is worth taking.
It’ll still cost a bomb shift him on and all his staff even in Nov?
Did I read rightly that he has the worst win percentage of any United manager since the prem started?
Stubborn cunt is going to head off with a life changing reward for being stone fuckn useless this November coming.
And Ratcliffe offering him a new contract a week ago,ffs!!
Oh there is. Believe me
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By some distance yes. Think he’s got something like 37pts from 35 games.
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When the mode music goes against you at a club the size of Manchester United it’s Almost impossible to turn it back.
Ten hag was going fine until that Arsenal game when Garnacho was offside. He never recovered from that.
Amorim so far has been a poor selector of a team. Bayidir cost them v Fulham and Arsenal. Bruno missed two key penalties.
He was overruled on a central midfielder as well.
It’s like building a house. You start with the foundations. Get the defence and mid field sorted first would be my approach.
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He’s goosed. I see Andy Mitten has turned on him the last week or so , when you’ve lost Andy you’re in trouble.
Ah he was lost a while back. He’s usually harsh enough but I’d say has to protect his sources
You’d want your head examined to be backing United @ 1/2 to beat Sunderland at the weekend.
Even more so if you’re heading over to it 
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Man Utd have a serious problem dealing with long balls – this is why
Looking to score against Manchester United? Get the ball airborne.
They have conceded at least one goal from a high pass in all six Premier League games this season.
In their opening match, Riccardo Calafiori scored from a corner for Arsenal. The following Sunday, Fulham’s Emile Smith Rowe equalised by latching onto a cross. Burnley then struck twice on matchday three, once from a cross and once from a long throw, while Manchester City and Chelsea both found the net with headers on the next two weekends.
In Saturday’s 3-1 defeat away to Brentford, the theme continued, this time from floated long balls rather than wide deliveries. Worse still, head coach Ruben Amorim had telegraphed the danger to his players in the lead-up to the match. “The first goal was a long ball. We worked on that in the week, and on set pieces,” he said in his post-match interview with TNT Sports, that game’s UK broadcaster. “We knew the long balls (were coming) and (with) one touch they had the opportunity.”
But Brentford did not just aimlessly hammer balls forward. Their long passes were purposeful and targeted, intended to expose gaps in United’s system. They even enjoyed more first-half possession than the visitors, with head coach Keith Andrews praising their “real bravery” in playing short to draw the press before sending the ball upfield.
This was evident from their first direct attack of the day.
After a 14-pass sequence, Brentford baited left wing-back Patrick Dorgu into pressing Michael Kayode. Right-back Kayode then laid the ball off to midfield colleague Yehor Yarmolyuk, who flighted a pass down the right channel between Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire, two of United’s back three. Under pressure, Maguire sliced it out for a throw-in.
The intention was clear: attack United down the flanks when their back line is stretched.
Only 20 per cent of Brentford’s attacking touches on Saturday came in the middle channel — this was their lowest share in any of their games this season and underlines how deliberately they focused on playing out wide.
While they did carve out these spaces on the flanks with neat, controlled combination play, they appeared more naturally in transition. It was via this route that Igor Thiago struck the opening goal on eight minutes.
When Matheus Cunha lost possession near Brentford’s box — after a possible foul from Kayode — United’s wide centre-backs were pushed up past halfway. This left Maguire, in the middle of the three, isolated and gave Thiago acres of space to exploit.
Maguire’s attempt to step up and catch him offside was an individual mistake, but that he was in this position at all laid bare a structural problem with United and speaks to the catch-22 their wide centre-backs face in Amorim’s 3-4-2-1 formation.
Amorim wants these players to step up into midfield, to stop United’s two-man pivot being overloaded. As the team’s captain Bruno Fernandes said after the 3-0 Manchester derby defeat two weeks ago: “We need to get the moments of jumping right because if not, the midfielders get, every time, an underload.” The problem is that when those jumps are mistimed, United are left wide open behind.
That was the case in the 63rd minute when Matthijs de Ligt stepped up from the back three to press Mikel Damsgaard. He missed his challenge and was left stranded near halfway. Brentford immediately worked the space, floating a pass out to Kevin Schade on the left. His cross found Dango Ouattara in the middle, who should have scored to make it 3-1 to the home side.
The current set of players United have at the back simply don’t look comfortable with this brand of proactive, front-footed defending, where mistiming even slightly can cause the structure to collapse.
United do not play this high-wire act of a three-man defence in every phase. Often, they resemble a more traditional back four, particularly when opponents go long from goal kicks, as Caoimhin Kelleher frequently did on Saturday. In these moments, Diogo Dalot tucked in at right-back while Dorgu stayed advanced.
Other moments saw Dorgu drop back too, creating a flat back five. But Brentford managed to unpick this tighter line with some subtle, intelligent movement.
For Thiago’s second goal midway through the first half, Ouattara ambled back towards his own goal down the centre of the pitch, dragging Shaw and Dorgu with him. At the same time, Schade and Thiago burst forward on the Brentford left, leaving United’s back line suddenly disjointed and badly out of sync.
What should have been a five-versus-three defensive advantage for the visitors collapsed into a three-versus-two in the home team’s favour by the time Yarmolyuk played his searching ball forward. Brentford capitalised on the extra space with Schade and Thiago combining neatly, and the latter squeezed a finish past Altay Bayindir.
Credit must go to Andrews, whose long-ball playbook was inventive, varied, and repeatedly unsettled Amorim’s defence. But United have now conceded 10 goals from direct attacks under him, more than any other Premier League side. It is a glaring weakness, and with United fans’ patience running thin, it needs addressing fast.
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united continue to be a sacking club. No news here.
Once Andy Mittens turns on a manager, it’s game over for them.
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You’d think they’d back Amorin a small bit