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The day after the defeat of Sunday 1-0 in Tottenham, Ruben Amorim said that Manchester United needed to stop thinking about the situation as a whole and starting to think of their next match. However, ignoring the context of how the Red Devils collapsed in the 15th row of the Premier League is a sure way to continue its ugly descent.
Where Amorim was absolutely on money, however, was with the first words he pronounced during his press conference at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“The big difference was the goal they scored. We were likely. We did not score. It was clear in the mind of Amorim that it had been the decisive factor in a low quality game, and it was clear for anyone who was also looking at.
The waste in front of the goal was a scourge in the sorry season of United, and Tottenham Away was the last of a long line of matches in which the Red Devils lacked calm in the last third at the crucial time. There is no reason for next Saturday in Everton should take place differently unless they can make significant progress on this score during training this week.
Alejandro Garnacho inexplicably flambé with a glorious chance of first half against Spur, and Rasmus Hojlund and Diogo Dalot were refused by blocks. In the second half, Garnacho forced twice the return of Guglielmo Vicario to stops with attacks which could have made much more.
Joshua Zirkzee widely widened and then missed a head which was, with respect, a goalkeeper. Invited to rent the Dutchman for an otherwise encouraging performance, Amorim, before doing so, said ridiculously: “I think Josh is not a clear n ° 9.” Nor is it the first person to say it.
A “clear n ° 9” – an elite, to this – is precisely what United needs. Hojlund directs the line well but lack of presence, is too often taken offside and is in no way clinical in front of the goal. Zirkzee’s profile is also false (see above), and the goals of the midfield are desperately rare this season for a team that has struck the bottom of the net less this season than Crystal Palace, West Ham and even Wolves .
If unproductive was the end of United by failing to score, they put the Spurs just their second cleanliness sheet in their last 28 games from the Home League. No wonder thatMorim has let “my work are so difficult” deplored “.
But the hopes of a marquee signature in summer must be tempered by the sober reality of the PSR restrictions – the same restrictions that prompted the United Chiefs to enter the January window with a strategy of opening to offers for almost all The players, including Garnacho and a graduate of the Kobbie Main Academy. If a lucrative offer for one or the other star had landed in the reception box, it would have been seriously considered. This is the configuration of the terrain.
The Board of Directors will also be too aware that Arsenal and Chelsea sniff for the best attackers on the market in summer, so lively are both upgraded to Kai Havertz and Nicolas Jackson, respectively. All this in the context of an era missing as many high -level central versions as in past decades.
United pass through this bridge when they come there, with regard to this market, but work must always be done in the meantime to make players already more clinical with the presentable chances they already create.
Amorim and United also have other problems, of course. Defensive errors are always an uncomfortable event, the weight of cross passes is often poorly judged, and the manager had to appoint eight teenagers without any first League minutes between them on his bench, due to an injury crisis that has engendered almost at night.
However, retaining the Red Devils is lower and ended up by the cape. A problem to consider the resolution of the summer, for the right price – but also to work now.
