Amorim’s reasoning for sticking with his system remains the same.<\/p>\n
He feels if he bows to pressure it will undermine him in the eyes of his players.<\/p>\n
“If I’m a player and I have a coach that, with a lot of pressure and [people] all around the world, are saying ‘you need to change the system’, says ‘I’m going to change’, they will look at me in a different way.<\/p>\n
“Everything is important when you think about the impact that a decision is going to have on the team.<\/p>\n
“I’m doing things my way. I hope to have the time to change but it will be an evolution.”<\/p>\n
Speaking before Chelsea’s visit to Old Trafford, Amorim says he understands the urgent need to win games.<\/p>\n
While United officials have rejected the idea he has the three games until next month’s international break to save his job, Amorim knows the matches against Chelsea, Brentford and newly-promoted Sunderland have the potential to change the narrative around him.<\/p>\n
The return from injury of \u00a362.5m forward Matheus Cunha is likely to see skipper Bruno Fernandes again start in a deeper midfield role against Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Fernandes’ failure to track Phil Foden’s run into the United penalty area in the lead-up to the opening goal against City – following a similar error that allowed Emile Smith Rowe to equalise for Fulham at Craven Cottage last month – has been cited as evidence for why the 31-year-old should be moved higher up the pitch.<\/p>\n
Not for the first time, Amorim explained why he feels Fernandes can be more effective in the centre of his midfield.<\/p>\n
“I want Bruno to have more possession to try to control the game,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Maybe he doesn’t have the same freedom to get inside the box but he is getting there and he can do his shots.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes we miss Bruno in front a little bit but if Cunha is there we have an extra player.<\/p>\n
“I’m just trying to balance the team and imagine the game and I see Bruno well.<\/p>\n
“He’s frustrated because he is not winning and sometimes he likes to go further. But he has a job to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amorim’s reasoning for sticking with his system remains the same. He feels if he bows to pressure it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-148235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}