Amorim reveals why he played new Man Utd signing Dorgu out of position on debut… before hauling him off at half-time

RUBEN AMORIM has defended his determination to play Patrick Dorgu retired of presumption connected his debut.

Manchester United's caller signing made his archetypal quality for the nine successful their controversial 2-1 triumph implicit Leicester successful the FA Cup.

Dorgu is astir comfy connected the near flank and Diogo Dalot prefers to beryllium connected the right.

But Amorim amazed fans by playing them connected the other sides past night.

Dorgu had a mixed archetypal 45 minutes and was hooked disconnected astatine half-time for Alejandro Garnacho.

Amorim was asked wherefore helium played the Danish wing-back connected the close and revealed the 20-year-old volition person to proceed to amusement versatility.

The brag said: "He played a batch of clip astatine Lecce connected the close and the left. That is 1 of the characteristics we wage attraction to a lot, to person a subordinate similar him.

"The position, you tin spot successful WyScout helium tin play some sides.

"If you spot the past of Dorgu successful the past squad helium played a batch of games connected the right.

"We person to person wingers who tin play some sides similar Dalot. It’s a truly important thing.

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"Sometimes you request a near ft connected the close broadside to travel wrong and link successful a antithetic way, and sometimes you request a right-footer to link and transverse much balls."

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Looking astatine Dorgu's illustration successful each competitions this season, helium has played 13 times connected the close and 11 times connected the left.

But owed to being a near footer and playing arsenic a wing-back successful Amorim's system, fans expected him to regenerate left-back Tyrell Malacia successful the squad, who has joined PSV connected loan.

Fans accused Amorim of "unnecessarily over-complicating things" successful his line-ups.

But connected £29m signing Dorgu's debut, the manager added: "He was a small spot anxious with archetypal interaction of the ball. It’s a antithetic league for him, antithetic velocity of the game, but helium did well.

"He had pace, strength, helium volition amended a batch and we arsenic a squad request to play amended to assistance these caller guys to execute astatine the close level."