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Amorim Admits Man United Regret After Brighton Defeat

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has admitted frustration got the better of him and that he was wrong to brand his team as ‘maybe the worst in the history of Manchester United’.

Amorim’s alarming comment came in the wake of their 3-1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday which saw United succumb to their seventh defeat in 15 games under their new Portuguese head coach.

The 39-year-old is also said to have damaged the dressing room TV during a post-match rant at Old Trafford.

According to Daily Mail, Amorim accepted that he had not chosen his words more carefully, but was simultaneously blunt, saying he would be ‘delusional’ to paint the current situation at the club in any other way.

“I’m a young guy and sometimes I make a mistake,” he said ahead of Thursday’s Europa League tie against Rangers at home.

“That’s why I don’t talk after the game. This game, I needed to talk and maybe it was a mistake and then I get more nervous and go to the press conference really nervous and say things I shouldn’t say, that’s it. I don’t promise you I won’t do it again, but I will try to improve.

“Sometimes I should not say it in those terms, but it is what it is. I understand I give you that headline and I am frustrated sometimes.

“Sometimes it’s really hard to hide the frustration in the moment. But the good thing is I said the same things in a different way in the dressing-room five minutes before. The response was quite normal because I’m really blunt with my players.

“Was it the best point to do it after that loss? Maybe not, but it is what it is. I’m like that all the time. I’m not taking responsibility from the players, I am saying, I am really, really direct in things. I’m saying in this moment we are performing really bad and our results are really bad in the moment.

“I was frustrated. If you say it’s good for the players to see the coach frustrated, maybe not. But I’m saying the obvious. If you want, I can be delusional and say different things.

“I say it as I saw it. I said to the players, and I said to you, I think it’s a good thing to be really honest with you. You saw one thing, I saw one thing. If you are in the stadium, you can understand it. So let’s face it and work on it.

“What I knew since the first day when I arrived and I see it, I understood changing things. We are going to suffer, is really clear.

“It’s getting really hard and you guys are here for a long time. You get loss after loss, it’s really hard for everybody, I know that. I show that frustration but I don’t know. Maybe we can change that tomorrow.”

However, Amorim shrugged of suggestions that he had tried to shift the blame toward his players by being so critical of them.

“I was talking more for myself than for my players,’ he added. ‘If you look around, every time I speak – and I speak a lot – you push about the players are not good enough. I never put the spot on my players.

“I’m not taking responsibility for the players. What I’m saying is that the message you guys show is I was putting it on the players. What I was saying is you have to look really hard for a Manchester United team that has lost seven out of 10 games and that is on me.

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“Because it’s the same players doing worse with a new coach, that is my only concern in the moment. I am not taking anything from the players, what I’m saying is we have to improve in the details.

“The way we play, we are too nervous with the ball, really anxious. Then if you have limited experience in this game, when you follow in this type of context, it’s really hard to go up – especially in a massive club.”

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