Ruben Amorim has enjoyed a decent start to life as Manchester United manager, drawing his opening game against Ipswich in the Premier League before beating Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League last night.
The new manager takes on Everton at home in the league this Sunday and was asked about his expectations for the game during his press conference.
Win. I am hoping to win. It is going to be a different match. A lot of fighting, long balls, second balls. A quality coach that understands the league and understands the quality of the opponent. We need to have the ball because we have a short time to recover with the team. So I hope for a win and I hope to see different things from my team, like we did from Ipswich to now. With Everton, without training and I expect to see different things and better things.
We will rotate players and we will be ready. Today we have to use like four subs to manage the fitness, not the game, we managed the fitness today and we have to do it. We already know it will be like that; no excuses and we should be ready for Sunday. We have to win.
Amorim wants his players to be better athletes but hasn’t had many training sessions to bring this change about. The manager has claimed he will use the matches as well as training to ensure improvements in his players’ fitness.
Without training, you have to use the games. I felt and I don’t know because I have to see the game, I felt we pressed a little bit higher. In Mason Mount, he did 60 minutes with high intensity. Rasmus was dead in the end. The guys that are playing have to push more. Push the guys to the limit and the other guys have to train tomorrow. Luke Shaw did some minutes and then he is going to train now because we are three days away from some things we cannot do. We manage with all the staff on how we try to figure it out. [We have] some ideas on how to cope with that.
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