“Frustrated, angry, that is it.”<\/p>\n
Ruben Amorim was summing up his own feelings in his first answer at the post-match news conference following Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with West Ham<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n But he could have been talking for the whole United fanbase, including those who booed his team off at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n He certainly was talking for former captain Roy Keane, who used similar terminology to sum up his feelings about the current United side.<\/p>\n “The word everyone will be using is frustration,” Keane told Sky Sports at the end of another game United led with a significant leap up the Premier League looming, only to concede late and end up with a point.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t trust or believe in this team. There are more goals [in them] but defensively and in midfield there are still huge question marks.”<\/p>\n Amorim sounded unusually agitated as he delivered his words, although he insisted he was calm.<\/p>\n He said there would be no repeat of his tirade after the home defeat by Brighton in January, when he cut his hand and broke a TV in the dressing room.<\/p>\n Instead, he will wait and address the situation at Carrington on Friday, believing it is counter-productive to speak to his players when emotions around a game are still high.<\/p>\n Amorim knew what had gone wrong, though.<\/p>\n He knew why his side had failed to hold the second-half lead given to them by Diogo Dalot. <\/p>\n And he knew why Soungoutou Magassa responded quickest to Noussair Mazraoui’s goal-line clearance from Jarrod Bowen’s flicked header at a corner to score his first goal in English football in the 83rd minute. <\/p>\n West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo said it was a “deserved” equaliser for the team third-bottom of the table, with just two points on the road since their only away win, at Nottingham Forest<\/a>, in August.<\/p>\n “It happened with a long ball,” said Amorim. “They win the second ball against three guys.<\/p>\n “Second balls sometimes are tactical things. We try to adjust with the players we have.<\/p>\n “In the final minutes, the ball was far from the opponent. We cannot let a team that is so much taller than us have a corner.”<\/p>\n The problem for Amorim is that a pattern is developing.<\/p>\n Keane highlighted it, saying: “One minute, you think they are making progress, they could move fifth, but they don’t get the job done. They look frightened to get the job done.”<\/p>\n