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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim warns of ongoing ‘rollercoaster’ arsenic nine effort astatine stormy rebuild continues.

Who: Manchester United vs Brighton
What: English Premier League
Where: Old Trafford, Manchester, United Kingdom
When: 2pm (16:00 GMT) connected Sunday
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Ruben Amorim has warned that Manchester United’s play volition proceed to beryllium a “rollercoaster” thrust arsenic players larn to accommodate to his strategy pursuing a melodramatic 3-1 triumph against Southampton.

Premier League basement nine Southampton were connected the brink of a daze triumph astatine Old Trafford connected Thursday earlier Amad Diallo scored a stunning 12-minute hat-trick to crook the crippled connected its head.

It followed a hard-fought 2-2 gully with Liverpool and a morale-boosting FA Cup triumph against Arsenal.

Amorim, who took implicit from the sacked Erik 10 Hag successful November, had antecedently warned that a “storm volition come” up of a tally of six defeats successful 8 games.

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— Premier League (@premierleague) January 16, 2025

The 39-year-old Portuguese brag forecast much turbulence pursuing the subpar show against the struggling Saints. Despite the win, United, who big Brighton connected Sunday, are inactive languishing successful 12th spot successful the Premier League table.

“I deliberation it’s going to beryllium hard until the extremity of the season,” Amorim said. “It’s going to beryllium a small spot that rollercoaster. Then it depends connected the clip you person to train. We are inactive successful the [FA] Cup and we person UEFA games for the Europa League.

“Then it’s important besides to absorption connected adjacent Thursday [when Scottish giants Rangers sojourn Old Trafford] to triumph and to effort to beryllium successful that apical eight.”

He added: “We had 7 trainings unneurotic successful 14, 15 games. It’s truly hard, but we person to proceed and effort to triumph it. Sometimes playing good, sometimes playing bad.”

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— Manchester United (@ManUtd) January 16, 2025

Amorim accepted his broadside did not play good against Southampton and indicated respective players were tired, including Manuel Ugarte, whose ain extremity precocious successful the archetypal fractional gave the visitors the lead.

“You [the media] are focused connected what I said astir Ugarte,” helium said. “Ugarte was bushed due to the fact that helium did a large occupation against Liverpool.

“If you look astatine the crippled against Arsenal, possibly Ugarte and Bruno [Fernandes] were the champion players against Liverpool.

“They didn’t play against Newcastle. I deliberation that happens with each players successful the Premier League.”

Manchester United squad news

Diogo Dalot returns from a one-match ban, but Mason Mount and Luke Shaw stay absent done injury.

The midfield whitethorn springiness Amorim intermission for thought with Kobbie Mainoo and Manuel Ugarte some substituted against Southampton owed to tiredness.

Brighton squad news

Former Manchester City midfielder James Milner misses retired done injury. Ferdi Kadioglu is besides sidelined with a knock, but Georginio Rutter whitethorn instrumentality to the starting 11 having made a goal-scoring quality arsenic a sub astatine Ipswich.

Head-to-head

Brighton volition go lone the 2nd broadside to triumph 3 consecutive distant matches successful the Premier League against Manchester United if they assertion each 3 points connected Sunday.

The different broadside to bash truthful are Manchester City, who person achieved the feat twice.

It’s been a affirmative tally wide for the Seagulls, who person won 5 of their past six matches against the Red Devils.

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