Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has opened up ahead of his side's Europa League clash with Athletic Bilbao on Thursday night.The Red Devils go into the first leg of the showdown hoping to secure victory as they look to salvage this season.United previously won the Europa League under Jose Mourinho in 2017 and repeating the feat would propel them into next term's Champions League, despite their dire domestic form.
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00:00Not just in the team, but in the fans, in you guys also, so everybody knows that it's
00:07really important for our season. We know that nothing is going to save our season,
00:12but this can be huge, winning a trophy, and also to get in in Champions League to have
00:20European games next year could change a lot of things in our club, even in summer.
00:26I don't know in that department, I don't know, because we had some games that we didn't create
00:34situations, but it's not the case in the last games. When we stopped for the national teams,
00:39we had against Nottingham, we had situations, against Wolverhampton, we had situations,
00:45we had situations against Arsenal at our home, so we are creating the chances, but we are not
00:50scoring goals, and sometimes you don't have an explanation for that to happen. So if you create
00:58situations, you are needed to score a goal, but in Europa League you are scoring more than in the
01:03league, I don't have a big explanation for that. As the head coach said, this is not going to save the
01:12season, but the history of the United is written with titles, so that's why we are focused very
01:19much on tomorrow, and to be able to play in Champions next season. So it's very important,
01:26and all together we're going to try and win.
01:28I think it's the rules, it's hard to talk about that. Maybe it's not, you could say it's not fair,
01:40because the best teams, the champions should be in Champions League, but you have this competition,
01:47to give a value to this competition is one way to reach, it's like one cup in our league, if you win
01:57the cup, you go to European games. So it's the rules, I don't know if it's fair or not,
02:05but if there is that possibility, we have to try to reach it.
02:13Our focus is to help our players that we have. Rasmus scored one goal in the last game. Again,
02:21I think you can see that Rasmus has the talent, Josh has the talent, Shido has the talent.
02:28We have to improve the players, but to improve the players individually,
02:32we have to improve the way we perform, the way we play, and we are far from being a really consistent
02:39team that can help the strikers to score many goals. So again, it's more, I already spoke about that,
02:47we are scoring, we have a clearly lack of goals, and that cost us a lot of points this season,
02:56and we have to improve that to help the strikers to improve.
03:01No, I think they are prepared, and if you see this team, maybe with some problems during the year,
03:07they were able to win cups, and that is also a pressure, especially the English Cup,
03:13that is a big thing in our league. So they are prepared, every player is international,
03:21but then the context in this season was really complicated in every aspect,
03:28so I don't see that that is an issue. They are excited to be here, they want to win,
03:35they are capable of winning. Again, it could change our summer, it could change the next year,
03:43but if we want to improve the club, we should not be focused on this. It's not the most important
03:53thing in our club. We have to deal with a lot of things in our club, and we will be fine with Champions
03:59League or without Champions League.