Amorim on utd stunning europa league win v Lyon
17/04/2025
uefa europa league
Manchester Utd 5-4 Lyon
17/04/2025
uefa europa league
Manchester Utd 5-4 Lyon
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00:00Okay, Samuel, if you can wait for the microphones please.
00:06Harun, congratulations. Is that just about the best game you've had, managing the football team?
00:13It's hard to say, but in here, and the sound of the two last goals were amazing.
00:22That is something that we can keep.
00:26For the future, it was a good feeling, but in the end of the game, you go to the semi-finals, but you need to win it.
00:34If you go to the semi-finals, you don't win it, it's the same feeling.
00:38So we just need to focus on the next stage and try to win the competition.
00:43You've gone too down, it's difficult to keep scoring tonight, but did you genuinely still have that belief that you could come back?
00:52You think it's hard, but you try to make some changes or try to push the players and to force yourself to give energy to the players.
01:03And in this stadium, in this club, you always have that feeling that anything can happen, and today was another day like that.
01:11Is it possible to detach yourself from the chaos that's going on? I know how you celebrated at the end.
01:21But how are you feeling in those moments inside? What does that feel like as a football player?
01:28That's why we like this sport so much and all the frustration that the coach has in this kind of season.
01:37The frustration, the bad moments. When you have moments like this, it's all worth it.
01:45But then, you finish the game, you calm down and you start thinking that we have a game on Sunday,
01:51and then we have to see all the players if they are fit to play, because we need to focus a lot on the Europa League.
01:59Congratulations. I'm sure you would have liked a simple 2-0 win. I think we were writing reports as well.
02:05But how much can that ending fuel you? You obviously are going, the Premier League is important,
02:12and no one here is important as the Europa League for what it offers, so how big can this moment be?
02:16I think these kind of moments can help a lot of players in this kind of season, in this kind of context.
02:26These kind of moments can create some connection between the fans and the players,
02:32and we can forget for a few minutes what kind of season we are having.
02:39But again, today is a good feeling, but tomorrow we need to start everything again.
02:45So we need to focus on the next game, to focus on the players if they are fit to play.
02:50We have to take a risk to save some players, because if you look at our season,
02:57the most important thing I think is clear for everybody is Europa League.
03:03Hi, Ruben. What did you say to the players at half-time and extra-time?
03:084-2 down at that stage, and so many of them have been thinking,
03:13how do you lift the team in that moment?
03:17At the half-time, in the extra-time, it was to change the positions,
03:22to try to be really clear about the position of Harry Maguire,
03:28trying to put Casemiro near the goal, Kobe Mainu near the goal,
03:32Mason Mount to cross balls, and try to explain that we need to score one goal,
03:38and anything can change, so we try to push for the team,
03:41but of course it's a difficult moment, and then you have to be really lucky to change the game,
03:46and that I think was the case today.
03:49Do you think you might see Harry Maguire in this kind of position again?
03:52He obviously stepped up to the plate in this crucial moment,
03:55but it feels like the squad being brutal like it is, particularly at the top,
03:59you might see this again?
04:00No, to play a normal game, no.
04:02But in these moments, it's something that is really important.
04:07Again, when I see Harry Maguire and I put Harry Maguire as a striker,
04:12I just see one guy that is inside the box.
04:14Is he good or not inside the box?
04:16So he's in the opposite box, he's a striker, he's not a defender,
04:20he knows how to behave in that space,
04:24so it's just to put the different characteristics in the different moments.
04:30Ruben, you will play Athletic Club Bilbao in the semi-final,
04:35what do you make of that draw, do you know about them?
04:38I play against them in the pre-season, with Sporting,
04:43so I know a little bit, of course it's a different moment.
04:47We know that they are really technical, they have two wingers really good,
04:53but we'll have time to assess all the characteristics of the opponent,
04:59and we need to focus a lot on what we need to do until that game.
05:05Because if you look at the team, especially in some moments in the end of the second half,
05:11the team was really tired, and you can feel in some players,
05:14and I felt Bruno Fernandes today a little bit tired,
05:17so I need to be careful even with Bruno in the game before,
05:21and between the next two games in the Europa League, I will try to do that.
05:25I will not promise, but I will try.
05:28Okay, that concludes the...
05:29Thank you very much.