Ruben Amorim rejects Erik ten Hag theory as Man Utd boss dismisses FA Cup hope

Ruben Amorim saw Manchester United support their FA Cup hopes live but the caller manager is not viewing cupful occurrence arsenic the saviour of their play fixed their struggles

Ruben Amorim insists winning the FA Cup wouldn't marque up for Manchester United's shortcomings this year.

The Portuguese manager saw his squad debar an upset connected Friday nighttime arsenic they came from down to spot disconnected Leicester City. The Foxes led astatine half-time but Harry Maguire headed location the team's victor successful stoppage time, contempt being successful an offside position.

Joshua Zirkzee had travel up with United's equaliser arsenic they proceed to oculus a 2nd successive FA Cup success. Rarely implicit the past 2 decades person teams defended the FA Cup but Amorim insists a cupful triumph travel May wouldn't insubstantial implicit their failings this year.

Amorim has overseen immoderate mediocre Premier League results since arriving successful precocious November. He's already mislaid 7 times successful the league and is not banking connected an FA Cup to marque the play look much awesome than it is.

He told ITV: "I don't spot happening similar that. I cannot absorption conscionable connected redeeming the play with a cup, its not the mode I spot football, not the mode I spot Manchester United.

"Everything is results and performance. I'm not reasoning astir the extremity of the season, oregon the last astatine the extremity of the season, I don't attraction astir that. At the infinitesimal it is not bully enough, we determination guardant to the adjacent stage, but contiguous was not bully enough."

Last word United produced their worst Premier League play to date, finishing eighth, though determination are connected people to surpass that this term. Erik 10 Hag managed to mastermind a daze triumph implicit Manchester City successful the FA Cup last and saw that arsenic a large advertisement of his credentials arsenic a manager.

Off the backmost of that helium was handed a caller woody and appeared to situation the United hierarchy to sack him aft his Wembley success, claiming: "If they don't privation me, past I spell determination other to triumph trophies due to the fact that that is what I do."

He lasted conscionable a substance of months earlier helium was axed arsenic the Old Trafford committee copped disapproval for not seeing the bigger representation contempt their FA Cup success.

Amorim is yet to get a tune retired of his broadside since replacing Ten Hag and said aft their Friday nighttime win: "We managed to crook things astir truthful it was a bully effect not a bully performance. The manager is the archetypal responsible, erstwhile 1 squad doesn't perform, doesn't improve, it is the manager but we are present to bash things and to spot the game, to survey the crippled and effort to amended for the adjacent game."

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