How Ruben Amorim Can FIX Manchester Uniteds AWFUL Home Form!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- After the defeat to Crystal Palace, Manchester United have lost 5 of the last 6 Premier League games at Old Trafford! But why are United so poor at home? And how can Amorim change our home fortunes?
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At Sporting most of the players he bought to play as wing back were wingers or attacking midfielders, the 2 full backs he bought barely played (fresneda, esgaio).
You said that as if he hadn't trusted onana before or other players... that's the first thing he did when first came in as a coach. He trusted them all until proving wrong.
At this point, I would rather have Timon and Pumba instead of Shaw and Mount
Timon in that inside 10 role >>>>
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude!!!
Last time I saw Shaw at Old Trafford he was best player on the pitch. And my mrs was hoarding tinned fish cos of a Chinese virus she’d been reading about.
I'd rather fans like you shut up
@@headslapping100😂
So so cautious to have hope for the season, but I'm hyped for the video because Lord Knows I need something
I understand the pain 😅 Hopefully with a less hectic schedule we can start to see some progress
There's no hope for the season. It's a complete write off. I'm sure Amorim just wants to get through the season without dropping further down, getting as high up on the table as is possible. And hopefully winning the FA cup and more importantly the Europa League to qualify for UCL - next season will be 20x better if they actually follow through and back Amorim as promised. For now, let's hope the training they can get in with less games actually bears fruit
It’s an interesting point but doesn’t hold up when you look at Dalot who is inverted in lwb. He should be offering when you’re saying maz isn’t but he’s largely been terrible too. I think it makes more sense that the wingbacks in this system are attacking players, but we’re playing defensive ones which is limiting our attack.
Other teams with wingbacks (Atalanta, Bayer leverkusen) use wingbacks on their natural sides and make it work because they are much more gifted offensively and athletically than our guys. Hopefully Dorgu helps in that regard
Top analysis AJ as always. We need to start playing ballers as the outside CBs too. Maybe Heaven is perfect for LCB, Mazraoui as an interim for RCB, just the central one is hard to pick. I'd go for De Ligt because he can defend in a wider range of situations than Maguire but I guess Maguire can progress the ball better at times. If we can push the outside CB's up instead of the central one, the back line should be harder to breach too.
Since Amad moved to 10, I've been doing the digital equivalent of screaming from the rooftops for him to be moved back! 😂
He is good as the 10, but right now he's improves the team far more as the RWB.
Exactly. Put Mainoo and Garnacho in the 10s
3 things you didn't mention
1. The back 3 should be Martinez, deligt, mazraoui. (Yoro and maguire should only replace deligt)
2. Pressing: our press is shocking, U get goals by pressing well...
man mark if you must. This is a theme of united coaches so far, we can't press properly.
3. U score goals by getting players in the box... when the ball is on the wing, say with Amad on the RW, garnacho, bruno, hojlund should be appearing in the box with dalot holding width.
Let us encourage crosses, high and low...
Ugarte can sweep up...
We have few players in the box cos so many people are moving to the ball
Football is simple really
Superb analysis as always AJ!
Amorim is overthinking the lineup selection too often
He’s making a lot of mistakes personnel wise but I understand his thought process. It’s actually vey weird what is happening right now
expected no?
I think when RA have more time to train with the full squad, he can improve more in their team play and breaking low blocks.... We just have to be VERY patience now.... It is just the start of open surgery...... with a long recovery period......
Also, RA is not do not trust them... rather.... I think cos they are not familiar with the system... hence, they are playing more cautiously...
You are 100% right amad on the WB position inswinging crosses and availability in cut backs
Is Amad more right or left footed?
Under Amorim, Mazraoui have usually inverted from the right wingback when Amad is in the 10 because Amad has drifted wide.
That is the main problem when changing from familiar back 4 defender to 3 defender. Some of the winger will be transitioned to new unfamiliar position, and it not automatically fit to their new position
100% agree. We haven't yet played well with two fullbacks as wingbacks but Amorim keeps persisting with it (a major problem he needs to fix and certainly will this summer). He needs to keep Amad at RWB and immediately throw Dorgu into LWB. Dalot becomes a backup wingback and Maz becomes a backup RCB (or starting now that Martinez is injured).
Wow, it's like you've actually played football! Interesting analysis
I fully agree an the wingbacks, and if you count or attacking 5 in posession, Dalot and Mazraui is not going to rack up goal involvements. On the Bruno dropping deeper move, I really liked it. The 8 drops down, creating a back 4 with our three centre backs. It allows for carrying the ball into midfield while retaining a numerical superiority in defence, however the problem is that the advantage of it is, yes, it allows our wingbacks to push higher on the pitch, and as long as we are playing two defenders there, it won't create goals.
As usual, incisive analysis, AJ
3-5-2 ? Would help having a second option to pass to in the middle
I think the team still can’t deal with the pressure playing at home especially on latest 2 important occassions which was during Munich tragedy remembrance against Palace and Denis Law memorial against Brighton.
We just dont have players in the box. One reason for this is we are usually outmanned 2v3 in the midfield so we constantly lose the midfield battle, but we also have 3 in the back guarding 1 forward (and somehow he also breaks through but that's a separate issue) so it constantly feels like we're a man short in the final third (even when Martinez sometimes carries the ball forward). This is a tactical issue.
The team seems to lack energy and physicality. They can't "run like dogs". That's a squad issue. No amount of training and coaching can help there.
Well good thing is both Dorgu and Quenda can emulate what amad is doing at wingback, so the bigger question is what should no 10s do in this system, like everyone who plays there plays differently
Mine will not be a popular statement, but we’re not playing as bad as results suggest against Brighton they didn’t lay a glove on us except for the goals they scored because of mistakes, even against Bournemouth old Trafford the game was relatively even they took the chances Crystal Palace, we hit the woodwork twice and had three penalty shoutsand they didn’t lay a glove on us apart from mistakes. Teams are coming beating us three nil and people are saying we got battered, but the truth is in those games. We were the superior team in all book finishing our chances, but we hit the woodwork far too often in games we get about three penalty shots again and none Invincible.
I do think we played well against forest..were decent against bournemouth..bt we've gotten worse...southampton we're better than us..palace we didn't offer much after the first 15 mins...brighon had better chances than us
I noticed something when you were analyzing the Amad clip against rangers, and this is something sporting were good at when amad had the ball if our strikers had any football knowledge whatsoever he would have started a curved up run towards the blind sided defender to keep in onside and the moment Amad played the ball to eriksen Eriksen would have released him in behind on goal
I’ve took the opportunity to look at Amorin time at sporting vs his time at man utd, what I’ve gathered…. 1. At sporting the back 3 was quite spread which allowed the full backs to occupied higher positions. At man utd The back 3 is quite narrow which ask a lot of the wing backs. 2. Bruno has now played as a deep lying midfielder in the last couple of games and we all know he is soft as toilet paper so he doesn’t give the back 3 enough cover which can limit the wing backs or one of the central defenders making forward runs to create angles overload(outnumber the opposition) 3.Bruno seems to be uncomfortable playing between the opposition lines or back to goal but prefers to drop deep or slide out wide which often time leave the other cm on his own. So the question is do we need a CB who can win majority of 1v1 scenarios? Because sometimes we look like we are playing with 6 in the back with our defenders jockeying the opposition and allowing them to get close to our box. Or do we need another robust CDM who can slide into a back 4 when a CB get dragged out wide? Or A number 10, who can play between the lines and create angles for wall passes and 3rd man runs? Without these additions or changes our wingbacks will not be able to maintain higher positions and sustain constant threat on the opposition.
Amad on the right is a good idea because he is left footed , what about dorgu on the left with his left foot, won't he face the same problem as mazraoui.
Great work Aj. But on the issue of dropping many players back.
He actually chose to go long. Based on stats, Onana is actually making more long balls in most of the games. But we have been let down by Strikers hold up play. And you mentioned how deep those players are, I actually think they progress well but the issue is that at the start of attack, they all rush forward, and then due to poor personal quality, we often miss a pass in the second phase, the opposition then rush back to an unprotected goal. That's how we have conceded so many goals.
Immediately you make this video about Maz playing RWB as a right footer, Dorgu plays RWB as a right footer in our next game.
But the solution isn't to go central from the wing back position...more often than not we need to progress from the wide positions...dalot plays on the left and cuts back from some absolutely brilliant attacking positions
If Amad is playing RWB for the rest of the season, and Bruno playing deeper in the midfield we are really gonna be thread bare in the front line. Garnacho and Mainoo are the only two options right now. Maybe Mount can come back at some point. I don't think Amorim is gonna have the option to use Amad as RWB all that much even if he wanted to.
I don’t think we can’t progress the ball consistently, I think we just stop doing after we have a good spell. The other day for no reason we just stopped going forward. This is why I was so upset with Lisandro. When we were on top he just started delaying passes, going sideways then eventually consistently going back to Onana. He’s supposed to be the tone setter and he’s doing that
Do you think maybe this ball progression is why he's trying the left footed Dorgu at right back?
We just need to get it right in the cup games. That’s all that matters now
So why is Dalot not working on LWB? Should be a natural fit there right?
With Dorgu coming in - will he now be playing LWB?
It's because Dalot is not attackminded. He never feels comfortable to progress the ball or make forward runs. Unlike Amad, who does the exact opposite. The difference is that Dalot is a defender, while Amad is an attacker. Both of them have different mindset and perception of football.
@@kenyakalu fair enough - but then that should be said and discussed in the video, rather than the analysis of how a left footed wing back will receive the ball as opposed to a right footed wing back.
Aj i understand your point in this Analysis but if you watch Amorim game at sporting and study the team you will notice they often change to 433,424,442, during matches and its not about the 3421 formation he let his defenders are very good moving the ball and they are very defensive wise.
Amorim plays exactly like pep and they could even be dangerous in attack for more than 20-30 mins, the problem at man utd is the type of players we have. Hjulmand play as single pivot sometimes and he’s the anchor man and also plays as the orchestrator while Morita play as a ball winning midfielder
and also as a a box to box midfielder which makes his team balance, Bruno can not play as an Anchor man or orchestrator, this why Ten Hag wanted a orchestrator (F.de Jong) at United back then, now already have Ugarte whom can play as box to box and ball winning midfielder.
Well I honestly believe Amorim knows everything he needs to do to improve this team and thats why he’s so confident about being successful at this club
hi how come palace's Mitchell is left footed playing on the left and Munoz is right footed playing on the right ?
Sorry, AJ, but Onana is not the player you think he is. If he starts to go forward, he makes dire decisions: he lacks judgement. His ability to control his own 6 yard box is lacking, and balls from set pieces evidently spook him. - and if you combine him with Maguire, it''s more than likely to go t1ts up. Maguire playing out from the back is a nerve-wracking experience anyway - most of the time he wants to pass sideways or backwards. On those rare occasions where the opposition want to retreat into a low block, Maguire gains a little confidence, haltingly runs/stumbles forwards and tries a long pass, which evidently delights those who think he is something he is not: all Maguire wants to do is get rid of the ball at any cost - and it often costs Utd. God smiled briefly on the England team at the Euros when Maguire could not play.
Without Licha, what was becoming a reasonably firm defence line will fall apart, unless de Ligt steps up to the plate. There are currently 4 players who give the team spine: predominantly Licha (injured, possibly until the end of the year); Ugarte; de Ligt and Bruno. Those players had started to make Maguire more than a whining softie, who regularly gifts the opposition. their mental fortitude meant the midfield had started to function properly, at least in defence, but always - and it's still there - was the the mostly non-functioning attack.
I just don’t think we bother trying to get the ball in the box often enough in Gainesville you’ve seen us go behind and we have 10 minutes to go. We get to the box and we start shooting and we start putting crosses in and we look dangerous, normally an open play we will get to the edge of the box we will dribble towards the box and then we will pass along the 18 yard box. It’s like we’re trying to pass the ball Internet if you look at Bournemouth Newcastle for Arsenal, the goals come from getting the ball out wide and getting the ball in the box as soon as possible we try to be too cute around the box. If you look at games, Diego gets the ball in crossing position, runs the box and then passes it to Bruno Same with Ahmed occasionally Ahmed will try and get in the boxing shoot, but we’re trying to dribble to the box and then pass it to the 18 yard box to try and shoot, but by the time we start to dribble opposition, get 10 men behind the ball were too slow in the final third
Bruno cannot progress the ball so we need more players drop deep. In summer transfer window, we should by a midfielder who can drop deep and bring the ball up.
The biggest problem is Manchester United defense. They can't stop teams from scoring. There are only 2 outcomes when you don't allow a team to score, a draw, or a win, you cannot lose.
Now, there're 3 results when you allow a team to score, win, lose, and draw.
Manchester United needs to strengthen defensively
Fine if you want to be a mid table team.
@Jezza_One The foundation of any winning team is the defense. Liverpool, Arsenal, City when they were winning have strong defenses. Look at Liverpool now. They have the best defense, and they are top of the league. Of course, you need to score goals, but defense must be your bread and butter.
@shango7942 Its a great start but the useless strike force needs to be replaced as well.
@Jezza_One Of course
We are shafted without Martinez 😮
The problem is that Amorim just simply is not picking the best teams for specific matches, whether people like to hear that or not. Amorim is not exempt from criticism. He could be doing much better than what he is doing at the moment but he is currently failing and struggling.
Yeah, Mainoo false 9 was weird. He got it right on Thursday playing Mainoo at no 10, he should have kept that team from the 2nd half.
@ yeh not only that, we have much more success with more attacking minder wingbacks but he chooses to put 2 defenders there instead and then wonders why we cant score goals with 5 natural defenders on the pitch. Also plays Ugarte in midfield against teams we are meant to have possession against, but he is a ball winner (basically a 6th defender). It also took him 10 weeks to realise Kobbie is a 10 while everyone else saw it much earlier. Those are just a few question marks I have. To be a good coach you have to actually coach your players and not just say they are not good enough and throw your toys out the pram and say you need new players.
He's learning his squad, and lets be honest its a very weak squad. It's not like he has had anytime with them. If he just played the exact same players in the exact same role game after game you would be here criticizing him not doing enough. This season is a wash might as well learn what players are capable of and find out which ones are coachable and willing.
@@Darthzish yeah, amad has to play rwb. We need more attackers. With dorgu as lwb, amad lwb, Garnacho and Mainoo at no 10, maybe we will score more goals. He has to use the youth players too like gore and Chido and kone. I don’t know why amass didn’t get any minutes.
@ 3 months spending nearly everyday with these guys is more than enough to get to know them, also analysing footage for hours after every game is also enough to know them. I really hope Amorim does succeed but these simple decisions and mistakes he is making isn’t making me as confident as I was when he was appointed. Can only hope he has a reason for this all.
Until the atheltic profile of the players is increased we will struggle - simple as
Why aren't we winning, we are scoring goals, we look so short of ideas, its so sad to see
We’re not scoring goals
Amad needs to play wing back. It’s simple. We score and win more games, can progress and carry the ball. Beat a man and open it up. Mainoo can play 10. They can link up. Until we get another wing back. That or Dalot RB and Amad 10 is not better.
But then what is the idea behind playing a Left footer in LWB position? can you explain
But Dorgu is left footed on the left side
amorim should see this
Mine will not be a popular statement, but we’re not playing as bad as results suggest against Brighton they didn’t lay a glove on us except for the goals they scored because of mistakes, even against Bournemouth old Trafford the game was relatively even they took the chances Crystal Palace, we hit the woodwork twice and had three penalty shoutsand they didn’t lay a glove on us apart from mistakes. Teams are coming beating us three nil and people are saying we got battered, but the truth is in those games. We were the superior team in all book finishing our chances, but we hit the woodwork far too often in games we get about three penalty shots again and none Invincible.😊
Amirom needs to start 2 STRIKERS no .9 & 11 plus Bruno or Grancho no .17 on the LAM position and AMAD no.16 on RWB then work on it only have 1/2 a season Left score GOALS &WIN games
Just play Garnacho at LWB and Dorgu at RWB.
Everybody seems to hear Rasmus, but if we had Javier Hernandez, for example you wouldn’t expect him to be receiving the ball back to goal holding off defenders and being a link striker Meneses might be a big Lad but he is not a link striker. He’s more of a box, Porter RA on the shoulder, running in behind striker. You play to his weaknesses and then call him crap. Joshua is brilliant at receiving the ball so people say he is a better option at the minute, but he’s not as good at finishing the best way of doing it is to not play long balls to Rasmus to get the ball out wide and to get the ball in the box as quickly and there as often as possible.
Talk about amir ibrahimov
IMO Amorim must try a late 19th century tactic combined with modern day pressing mentality.
What I mean by that he can try play a full rondo formation in which there is no midfield at all instead he must play two wing backs instead of one on each flank.
Meaning one wing back to defend, one wing back to attack. The defensive one can also tuck into midfield when required.
This way we can attack faster and more efficient.
In a defensive perspective, when the ball is at the opponent, it is easier to engulf the opponent because our formation is literally a rondo.
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I also don't get it, Amorim is being stubborn play amad as a RWB, then mazraoui as a RCB, it will solve a lot of our problems
Can a pro player no longer use both feet...
Sacking ETH was a mistake
No keeping him in the summer was a mistake
If you don't know please just stop disgracing United
At home, man utd should sit back and play on counter…This system doesn't help when Man utd try to dominate the game…We are caught on counter attacks…At away games, we are dangerous because teams try to press us thereby exposing them for counter attacks
You can anlayze all you want but at the end of the day. Collectively , as a squad. these players do not have the skills to play the way Amorim wants just like they didn't have the skills to play how Ten Hag wanted last year and this. Why in the world would you want Fernandes anywhere near his own goal receiving the ball to play out? It's not like Bruno doesn't turn the ball over is it? Good grief. And you really want two tracker trucks like Maguire and DeLigth trying to play out , surely nothing can go wrong with that deployment.
Mate, just stop with all the fancy analysis, Dalot and Mazraoui aren't wingback, Fernandes isn't a deep lying playmaker (no sane Manager would play him there because he's a turnover machine) and Hojlund does not have a hold up game . He never wins air duels and balls bounce him like radar.
So there you have it, you can analyze all you want but it's like trying to get a plow horse to run the Epsom Derby. He'll run but there is no chance that will work, cause he's a freaking plow horse. The best place to put him.....is on a field where he can do what he does best.....plow. Amorim's system and formation is trying to force the United plow horses to try to run like a Thoroughbred. They don't have the skills. Don't know why people can't accept that. Just because a player is making 200k/w doesn't mean they can play every position and every style of football. What do you think would have happened if Pep played direct long ball with Messi and his mates. If they were United fans they would complain that Messi makes enough money so he should be able to win more aerial duels and score more goals with headers.
Do stop the begging for clicks. It’s all an act anyway so why bother. We’re not fools. Ask quickly and move on. Much more professional.