{"id":33955,"date":"2025-12-31T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=33955"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:04:31","slug":"amorim-still-really-confident-about-man-utd-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=33955","title":{"rendered":"Amorim still ‘really confident’ about Man Utd potential"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ruben Amorim is still optimistic about Manchester United’s prospects this season despite ending a torrid 2025 with a lacklustre 1-1 draw at home to strugglers Wolves.<\/p>\n

Rob Edwards’ side arrived at Old Trafford on a run of 11 successive Premier League defeats, the Midlands club firmly at the foot of the table with a mere two points from 18 matches.<\/p>\n

But they left Old Trafford with a third point of the campaign after Joshua Zirkzee’s deflected opener for United was cancelled out by Ladislav Krejci in a draw that took place just three weeks after Amorim’s men won 4-1 at Molineux.<\/p>\n

Bruno Fernandes, Bryan Mbeumo and Mason Mount scored in that match but were among eight absentees for sixth-placed United, who are two points behind reigning English champions Liverpool — who have a game in hand – in the race for the final guaranteed Champions League spot.<\/p>\n

“I’m really confident,” said United manager Amorim at the half-way stage point of the season. “We just need to recover all the players, and I’m really confident.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what is going to happen until the end of the season. Then we will make the resume of the season.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the 40-year-old Portuguese boss added: “But I’m really confident when we recover all the players that we are going to be a strong team. There is no doubts in my mind.”<\/p>\n

United’s first match of 2026 is away to longstanding bitter rivals Leeds on Sunday, with Amorim saying he is “not going to risk anyone” by making existing injury issues worse.<\/p>\n

But the Red Devils would dearly loke some inspiration that was missing against Wolves, with Amorim replacing goalscorer Zirkzee — who came in for the injured Mount — at half-time to bring on teenager Jack Fletcher.<\/p>\n

Amorim confirmed the decision was “just tactical”, saying: “We need to do what the game was asking.<\/p>\n

“We were struggling, they put a lot of men in the middle of the park, and with Jack we balanced that. I think we recover the ball faster in the in the second half.<\/p>\n

“In the first half, we struggled a little bit to recover the ball, so I’m just looking not for their age and the experience. In this moment, I just look what I can do to win the game.”<\/p>\n

United reverted to Amorim’s favoured three-man defence having previously won with a back four and Wolves boss Rob Edwards was proud of his side after they secured a first point since he took charge last month.<\/p>\n

“It’s nice to take something from the game,” Edwards said ahead of Saturday’s match against fellow strugglers West Ham. “I do feel it’s the least we deserve. I do. It’s progress. Overall, it was a really good performance.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruben Amorim is still optimistic about Manchester United’s prospects this season despite ending a torrid 2025 with a lacklustre 1-1 draw at home to strugglers Wolves. Rob Edwards’ side arrived at Old Trafford on a run of 11 successive Premier League defeats, the Midlands club firmly at the foot of the table with a mere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}