Roy Keane gives worrying Man Utd prediction after watching Ruben Amorim's first match

Manchester United drew 1-1 with Ipswich Town successful Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled successful complaint and nine fable Roy Keane has delivered a damning verdict connected wherever they volition decorativeness this season

Roy Keane believes "average" Manchester United person nary accidental of finishing successful the apical 5 this season.

United presently beryllium 12th successful the Premier League, having picked up 16 points from their archetypal 12 games, and Keane delivered a damning verdict aft the Red Devils drew 1-1 with Ipswich Town successful Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled successful charge.

"Manchester United, astatine this infinitesimal successful clip immoderate the problems are, are an mean Premier League team," Keane told Sky Sports. "So galore teams are mode up of them. There's a agelong mode to spell for this United team.

"Huge occupation for the manager, immense job. And, again, we support saying it but listen, hopefully they get it sorted. You inactive person the aforesaid players retired there. The aforesaid problems. We speech astir leopards and spots, the contented with United implicit the past mates of years.

"Lack of goals, deficiency of quality. We're looking astatine Ipswich who haven't won each play astatine location and they look the amended team. If immoderate squad was going to triumph you felt Ipswich were.

"Do I judge this radical of players person the prime to get United backmost to apical 4 of five? Absolutely not. The grounds conscionable isn't there. Once the crippled starts it's the aforesaid aged stuff."

United took an aboriginal pb done Marcus Rashford, but a superb long-range onslaught from Omari Hutchinson drew Ipswich level. And United goalkeeper Andre Onana produced 2 fantabulous saves to contradict the hosts an upset win.

Reflecting connected his archetypal crippled successful charge, Amorim admitted it volition instrumentality clip for him to amended United's performances. "We are going to endure for a agelong period. It's going to instrumentality a agelong time," helium said.

"We volition effort to get results but we cognize we volition person to beryllium patient. The operation volition instrumentality time. We person had conscionable 2 grooming sessions and they did OK. We person a batch of games and the guys who bash not play volition train.

"We indispensable amended the mode we play. The players are trying, they are truly trying. I cognize it's frustrating for the fans but we volition try. It's truthful wide for everybody that Onana saved america 2 times astatine least. He understands precise intelligibly and helium did a large job."

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