Ruben Amorim said Manchester United will have to “suffer for a long time” before his methods help the club return to success after a draw 1-1 has Ipswich Town denied the new head coach a first victory in his first match in charge.
Marcus Rashford’s opening goal after 81 seconds had given United a dream start at Portman Road, but Omari Hutchinson’s equalizer sealed a point for Kieran McKenna’s side and the home side would have won but for two saves crucial moments from the United goalkeeper. André Onana.
Although he has less than a week to work with his new team on the training ground, the former Sports CP The coach deployed his preferred 3-4-2-1 formation and said it led his players to overthink their performance.
But Amorim insisted he would stick to his principles, even as he said it would lead to more suffering until his tactics bore fruit.
“I know it’s frustrating for the fans, but we’re changing so much right now with a lot of games,” Amorim told reporters. “We will suffer for a long time and we will try to win games, but it will take time.
“We have to win games, but we could lose without Onana, so I think we have to understand that and think and be pragmatic about the fact that these guys have had two days to practice to change that much.
“It’s hard for the players to manage everything in three days, but we forget the new idea. I think that’s why I was brought here in the middle of the season and we’re trying to deal with the things they’re used to doing (under Erik ten Hag).
“Next year at the same stage we will be here with the same problems or we start now we risk a little bit, we suffer a little bit and next year we will be better at this stage so we have to take the risk. little bit.
“The (players) are thinking too much because we are changing too much with two practices now with no space to improve in practice.
“But what I realized today is that they are trying. They really try. Even in tough times, I felt like they were doing the things we wanted them to do. »
Amorim said he had already told his players to stop doing what they were doing under the previous regime, citing the changes he advocated Diogo Dalot TO DO.
“Some details: they were passing the ball and moving forward, even the central defenders,” Amorim said. “Now they have to go back. That sort of thing. They start moving forward and have to think too much.
“Dalot was doing it, passing the ball to the central defenders, going inside, playing in midfield, now he has to stick to that position.
“When we want to listen to many of you saying that Manchester United have no structure, we will have a situation (for) you to (see) structure and you (will) see that but it is not smooth.
“It’s like steps. You have to put the structure in your head. When they start thinking about structure, they will play so much better.
“But we need time to do it and in that time we have to manage to win games. It’s very important and I know it.
United have upcoming fixtures Premier LeagueEuropa League and Carabao Cup in the coming weeks and Amorim said some players would be taken out of some matches to allow them to work on new methods on the training pitch.
“We have to find a way,” he said. “I think the only way to do that is to have games and the guys who aren’t playing are training, everyone is going to play, everyone is going to be on the bench, so they have the feel of the game but they must train.
“With this schedule we have to rotate the team, so we will try to use it to train, improve the team and win games.
“Without the time we have to find the time, I think that’s the only way some guys are going to play, some guys the next day will work on our idea and then they’ll change positions.”