Ruben Amorim summarised his thoughts on the developments of Man United.
The Red Devils earned back to back Premier League wins for the first time under the head coach with a 2-1 victory at Anfield against reigning champions Liverpool after beating Sunderland 2-0. A 4-2 triumph over Brighton followed, and then came a 2-2 draw at the City Ground last weekend.
Ahead of a showdown with Tottenham, Amorim asserted there is still a lot of room to improve.
“I think we are more confident. We believe more that we can win any game and we prove already that we can win any game. The last game was tough on us because in some moments we were not the team that we’re supposed to be in every minute. Compare that to Brighton. We suffered two goals against Brighton but it was a different thing. We know that we cannot forget that we have a lot to improve.
“I think we can manage the game better now. We can always change from one moment that we are struggling, we can change that. Also because we have players that can change that for us – not as a team but sometimes the individual can help us to change that.
“If you look at the game against Nottingham Forest, we control in the first half, the energy… if you put the two games together at the same time, you can sense the energy was not the same and that is something that you can watch in the first moments of the game, so it’s a little bit of both.
“[A lack of clean sheets] is a problem, especially if you see the league nowadays. The team that is winning all the games is not suffering goals, maybe [even] shots on target, and that is a big thing.
“When you have talented players, if you defend well, in one opportunity you can score a goal and win a game but I think it’s more a team thing. We need to defend better, we need to be more aggressive. That part of the energy when we have the full energy in every ball, we defend better.
“So everything is connected, but of course we have a lot to do. We cannot suffer the amount of goals that we are suffering and that is a thing we need to improve.
“You can attack really well. Sometimes when you defend better, you attack better, so I think it’s not that. It’s the way we defend the box, but the last game we struggled a bit inside the box, because outside the box we allowed the crosses without any pressure.
“So these small details you watch from the last game, we worked on during this week to try to improve that. We suffer goals especially in the beginning of the season, but we didn’t allow much to Arsenal to win that game, but in our last game, they had 17 shots.
“That, we cannot allow. That is something that we need to change and we pay attention to that. We can attack the same way, we can score even more goals but we need to defend better.”
