Ruben Amorim calls out Andre Onana for blunder in Man Utd defeat to Brighton

Ruben Amorim has called retired Andre Onana for his howler against Brighton, urging the Manchester United goalkeeper to ‘maintain focus’.

The Red Devils suffered an embarrassing 3-1 location defeat to the Seagulls astatine Old Trafford connected Sunday, a effect leaves them 13th successful the Premier League.

Amorim has been near furious astatine the result, describing his underperforming broadside arsenic ‘the worst squad possibly successful the past of Manchester United’.

Onana made a miserable goalkeeping error for Brighton’s 3rd goal, inexplicably pushing a tame transverse into the way of Georginio Rutter, an incidental which United caput manager Amorim was asked astir post-match.

‘It’s similar the squad (Onana’s error) – ups and downs,’ Amorim said. ‘Really up sometimes, and past truly debased downs.

‘We person to support our absorption during each the games to effort and triumph games. That is the lone mode we tin crook things around.’

Speaking much mostly astir United’s 3-1 loss, an aggravated Amorim added: ‘In 10 games successful the Premier League, we won two.

‘Imagine what this is for a instrumentality of Manchester United. Imagine what this is for me. So we are getting a caller manager that is losing much than the past coach. I person afloat cognition of that.

‘Like I said, I’m not going to change, nary substance what. I cognize we tin succeed, but we request to past this moment. Because I’m not naïve and I cognize that we request to past now.

‘We are being the worst squad possibly successful the past of Manchester United. I cognize that you privation headlines, but I’m saying that due to the fact that we person to admit that and to alteration that. Here you go, your headlines.’

Sunday’s effect means United person suffered their sixth location Premier League decision of the play – remarkably their astir from their opening 12 location matches of a league run since 1893-94.

But speaking to Sky Sports, Amorim doubled down connected his volition not to alteration his benignant of play, amid concerns implicit his 3-4-3 formation.

‘I’m not going to alteration the mode I spot the game,’ Amorim said. ‘I’m precise wide connected that. The players are going to suffer, I’m sorry, the fans are going to suffer. I person 1 mode of doing things, I cognize it’s going to [bring] results. But we person to endure successful these moments.’

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