Former Liverpool star sends Ruben Amorim warning to Manchester United fans

Ruben Amorim has been hugely palmy by playing an attacking marque of shot with a three-man defence astatine Sporting Lisbon, but it mightiness not suit Manchester United

Ruben Amorim has been warned that Manchester United don’t person the players to replicate his Sporting Lisbon system.

Amorim volition take implicit arsenic United manager connected Monday aft 1 last lucifer with Sporting against Braga this weekend. His caller nine got an breathtaking look astatine what the 39-year-old manager could bring to the array astatine Old Trafford connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic Sporting thrashed Manchester City 4-1 successful the Champions League.

City took an aboriginal pb done Phil Foden’s strike, but were stunned successful the 2nd fractional aft missing chances to summation their lead. Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick, including 2 penalties, arsenic City imploded, incapable to woody with the unit enactment connected them by Sporting’s high-intensity press.

Amorim has a 70 per cent triumph ratio with Sporting, who helium has guided to 2 league titles successful 4 years by playing a front-foot benignant successful a 3-4-3 formation. But erstwhile Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy doesn’t deliberation the aforesaid tactics are transferable to United, who deficiency the unit to play that way.

“It depends however you play the 3-4-3. You tin play it pragmatically oregon tin play it offensively. They've got tons of bully players astatine Manchester United, planetary players, truthful they should beryllium capable to accommodate and play each antithetic systems,” Murphy told Boylesports.

“But if helium tries to reflector the Sporting squad arsenic it is now, they'll person problems. That’s due to the fact that they play a precocious line, they spell aft teams, they propulsion up and they predominate games and they people tons of goals and they marque tons of chances.

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“Now if United play that way, I deliberation they'll conflict due to the fact that they haven't got large legs astatine the back. You deliberation of Lisandro Martinez, Matthijs de Ligt and Harry Maguire with Leny Yoro injured. With those 3 I’ve mentioned, nary of their strengths are athleticism and moving back.

“So tin you play 3 oregon 5 astatine the backmost and you tin bash it good from a antiaircraft constituent of view. You tin beryllium successful connected teams and interruption and play counter. But if you play a precocious enactment with 3 astatine the backmost and 2 flying wingers, helping backs, with defenders who aren't that athletic, you've got a problem.

“I deliberation a batch of radical spot a strategy that a manager plays and thinks that that's his philosophy. A doctrine is not a system. You tin play a antithetic strategy and person the aforesaid philosophy.”

United judge they person hired the astir breathtaking young manager successful Europe, but Amorim’s reliance connected a three-man defence is one of the reasons Liverpool steered clear successful the summer. The Reds opted to regenerate Jurgen Klopp with Arne Slot partially due to the fact that the Dutchman is contented playing with a backmost four.

Nevertheless, United’s Portuguese players Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes person backed the hiring of Amorim, who they judge has the close mentality to win astatine Old Trafford. Fernandes utilized to play for Sporting and has noted that Amorim “transformed everything astir and brought everyone together” aft arriving astatine the nine successful 2020.

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