Ruben Amorim fumes at Man Utd flops after ignoring him in 'unacceptable' Brighton loss

Ruben Amorim appeared to suggest his Manchester United players haven't taken his proposal connected board, aft making acquainted mistakes successful their humiliating 3-1 decision by Brighton connected Sunday

Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim took purpose astatine his players for their "unacceptable" 3-1 location nonaccomplishment to Brighton, who helium admitted were "comfortable" astatine Old Trafford.

The Red Devils looked to person turned a country aft a spirited 2-2 gully against league leaders Liverpool earlier this period earlier precocious heroics from Amad Diallo helped them bushed Southampton 3-1 successful midweek, but they were good disconnected the gait against the Seagulls.

United were astatine sixes and sevens aboriginal connected successful the crippled arsenic Yankuba Minteh was capable to tap-in with easiness aft Kaoru Mitoma raced clear, earlier Bruno Fernandes equalised from the spot. Mitoma past made it 2-1 earlier Georginio Rutter added a 3rd connected a atrocious day for the club.

The squad person present mislaid 10 matches, the quickest they person reached treble figures for defeats since the 1989-90 season, with United present 13th successful the Premier League array and person to the bottommost 3 than the apical four.

Amorim was fuming aft the game, suggesting his players had repeated mistakes from erstwhile games by "suffering goals wherever we cannot suffer".

"Another nonaccomplishment astatine home. It's not acceptable, the mode we suffered the goals," helium said. "We tin play immoderate shot but [only] successful tiny spaces of time, truthful it's not accordant and we get tense and past we endure a goal. Again, successful the beginning, it's 1 play that is intelligibly what Brighton do. Then it's truly hard to crook things around. We get truly anxious, truly tense and they were amended again."

"Brighton were comfortable. We tried [to get backmost into it] but with not precise bully football. You tin spot this crippled and retrieve Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, wherever we were successful the crippled and endure goals wherever we cannot suffer. Then it's truly hard for everybody. We mislaid again astatine home, it's not acceptable. We request to alteration that and alteration fast."

United's nonaccomplishment was compounded by a woeful mistake by goalkeeper Andre Onana, who came retired to cod a debased transverse earlier fumbling it and allowing Rutter an casual tap-in into an unfastened goal.

Amorim did not effort to support the Cameroonian keeper, and portion helium did not linger for excessively agelong connected his error, helium insisted the squad could not spend to extremity a lucifer successful that manner.

"I deliberation you felt it successful the stadium. But we cannot extremity the crippled similar that. Everybody retired of position, truthful we person to extremity the crippled successful a antithetic way. No substance the result, we person to beryllium a antithetic squad successful each aspects."

Amorim gave an eye-opening effect erstwhile asked if United's struggles would proceed arsenic helium admitted the squad would "suffer" arsenic they accommodate to his methods.

"That is clear," helium said. "Because I'm not going to alteration the mode I spot the game. 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 these moments. I deliberation it's precise wide for everybody what we are going to do."

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