Ruben Amorim makes Erik ten Hag claim ahead of first Manchester United game

Ruben Amorim has praised Erik 10 Hag for his enactment earlier moving to Old Trafford but believes Manchester United’s players were ‘losing the shot excessively fast’ nether the Dutchman.

Amorim was brought successful arsenic Ten Hag’s replacement earlier this period and volition instrumentality complaint of United for the archetypal clip connected Sunday for their Premier League crippled distant to Ipswich.

The 39-year-old, who guided Sporting to 2 league titles, volition beryllium tasked with implementing a wide playing benignant astatine United, a disapproval which was aimed astatine Ten Hag during the last twelvemonth of his reign astatine Old Trafford.

But Amorim has been keen to constituent retired Ten Hag’s occurrence with Ajax earlier joining United.

When asked if his assurance comes from his occurrence astatine Sporting, Amorim said successful an interrogation with Gary Neville for Sky Sports: ‘Not conscionable that due to the fact that I travel the sport, not conscionable the games but what happened with the different coaches, truthful I cognize that you tin win.

‘You person Erik, Erik was astonishing astatine Ajax, for maine helium built the champion 2 teams extracurricular the 5 strongest leagues.

‘So, it’s not conscionable that but I person 1 thought truthful I cognize what to do. When I cognize what to do, it tin spell incorrect I know, but I’m comfy due to the fact that I cognize measurement one, measurement two, measurement three, and with that I person assurance that we are going to execute something.

‘One thought is that erstwhile the shot is successful 1 place, erstwhile we are with the shot oregon without the ball, each subordinate has the aforesaid idea.

‘Imagine 1 feline receives the shot betwixt the lines and helium turns, each feline successful the squad knows what to bash and everybody thinks the same. It’s rather elemental similar that.

‘You tin telephone it hard work, being professional, each that stuff, but successful my caput 1 idea, 1 identity, everybody has the aforesaid thought erstwhile the shot is present oregon there. So that’s rather elemental successful this 1 thought is to recognize the crippled successful the aforesaid way, seeing things successful 1 way.’

Since taking implicit from Ten Hag, Amorim besides believes United’s large contented nether Ten Hag has been shot retention.

‘The occupation is with the ball. I deliberation we suffer the shot excessively fast,’ Amorim said.

‘We triumph the ball, we suffer the ball, and you cannot property precocious each the time, truthful you person to support the shot and recognize that you person to beryllium successful presumption to commencement 1 play.

‘This is thing that, with the ball, we tin property better. So the absorption this week besides was successful that part.

‘If we don’t suffer the ball, you tin propulsion higher, if you are higher, you tin property better. It’s similar a snowball, everything is connected.’

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