Roy Keane leaves Ruben Amorim in no doubt about Man Utd task: 'He's got big problems'

Manchester United could lone negociate a gully against Ipswich Town arsenic Ruben Amorim took complaint of his archetypal Premier League lucifer and was reminded of the size of the task helium has undertaken

Roy Keane made it wide that Ruben Amorim has 'big problems' astatine Manchester United aft his debut gully astatine Ipswich.

The Portuguese brag took complaint of the Red Devils for the archetypal clip connected Sunday and saw his team held by Kieran McKenna's men. Marcus Rashford opened the scoring wrong 90 seconds of the crippled starting but Omari Hutchinson's deflected onslaught ensured the Tractor Boys earned a point.

Amorim employed a caller formation for the Red Devils arsenic the lined up successful a 3-4-3 but contempt their accelerated commencement to the crippled astatine Portman Road, United were incapable to occupation Ipswich goalkeeper Arijanet Muric often. The 39-year-old's squad produced an expected goals worth of conscionable 0.9.

Keane believes the trouble United person successful generating opportunities volition supply a monolithic task for Amorim moving forwards. The erstwhile United skipper simply believes the squad deficiency quality.

Ultimately, that leaves Amorim with a elephantine situation successful Keane's eyes. "He's got large problems," Keane said connected Sky Sports.

"The deficiency of menace successful the 2nd half, and Ipswich looked similar they'd spell connected and win. They've not won astatine location each season. Same problems for Man United, but he's lone had a week with them.

"You person to springiness the antheral a accidental but the menace going forward, it's a immense occupation for Man United. It's not bully enough.

"We saw the signifier of the squad but it is the aforesaid players and the aforesaid problems. We speech astir leopards and spots: deficiency of goals and deficiency of prime successful the 2nd half. Ipswich looked the amended team.

"It's his archetypal game, a batch to instrumentality successful and it has been a intelligence week for him, but yet helium volition beryllium disappointed. Man United are, astatine this infinitesimal successful time, an mean Premier League team. It's a immense occupation for the manager. Hopefully, helium tin get it sorted."

It appears Amorim is nether nary illusions implicit the standard of the task up of him. The ex-Sporting CP manager believes United volition suffer.

"We are going to endure for a agelong period," helium said. "It’s going to instrumentality a agelong time.

"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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