Amorim looking to find Premier League form against Brentford as Europa League final looms
02/05/2025
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02/05/2025
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00:00The results in the Europa League and the Premier League have been very, very different.
00:06Are the players able to kind of separate the momentum of those two competitions?
00:10Because presumably you're going to have to rest players again on Sunday.
00:13It may affect the result, but then you've got to kind of go again on Thursday.
00:16Are they able to separate these two competitions now?
00:18In this moment it's hard. It's hard to separate.
00:22We know that we have always a responsibility, but in this moment we have to take a risk.
00:27And there are some positions that we don't have more players.
00:31For example, Nus cannot play. He's in the limit to get an injury.
00:37So we are going to deal with that and prepare a game against a team that they want today.
00:42It's in the great moment.
00:44And we have always a responsibility to perform.
00:48We have always a responsibility of the result.
00:50But in this moment we have to be clear.
00:52Our focus is more on saving players and trying to be competitive.
00:57It's not a good thing to say, but we need to understand the context.
01:02Just on Ahmad Diallo, obviously came on for the last ten minutes tonight.
01:07How important do you think he could be for the rest of the season?
01:10And what's it been like managing him when he's being injured?
01:13Because he obviously wants to be playing and he was in such good form before he got injured.
01:17Yeah, it was really tough on us because in that moment he was the player that created all the situations.
01:24And then passed a little bit for Bruno.
01:26So lose a player like that in that moment with a lot of games was really hard for us.
01:32And especially for Ahmad because he was leaving a good moment.
01:37But now he's returning, you can feel that he's not so explosive in the moment.
01:42But he's a player with a characteristic left foot, different from Garnasio, that has one against one.
01:48And we don't have many players to do that.
01:51So he's massive for us and he's one more option to play.
01:56Hi, Ruben. You brought an expanded squad out ahead of training tomorrow.
02:01You've played some of the kids before. You plan to heavily rotate.
02:05I know you mentioned Nusser there. What's the thought process heading into this?
02:09The first thing is that the players that are in risk to get injury will not play, no matter what.
02:15We need to take a risk in that.
02:19And then we are going to assess tomorrow and the next day who are the best players to start the game.
02:26Then we have to be careful because we are Manchester United and we cannot go to a game without thinking we can win this game.
02:33So the process is going to be like that. It's going to be tough.
02:36But we passed so many things this year. There's one more. Let's see.
02:46Ruben, you said in March that you were learning how to use Casemiro more and more.
02:51And you really depended on him in this Europa League run.
02:54What have you learned so far using him?
02:56And is he someone you hope to work with going forward long term as well?
03:00I think he's doing, he improved a lot also.
03:03And you can see not the way he plays, but the way he runs.
03:07And you can see it. We have the data to show. He worked really, really hard.
03:11He's a very good example, but he was not playing.
03:14Even Toby sometimes was playing in front of him.
03:18And now it's hard to take Casemiro.
03:20So it's a lesson for all the players in Manchester United.
03:23No matter what is the past or the last month, everything can change in one moment.
03:30Then we understood that he cannot jump all the time pressing high.
03:36We need to let him to understand.
03:38And sometimes it's better to put three defenders and let him to be the fourth defender
03:45and put the wing backs pressing high.
03:47So these small things we are understanding, trying to cope with all the characteristics of the team.
03:51But the credit is for Casemiro.
03:54Last question.
03:55You spoke just then about the difficulties the players face in switching between the Premier League and Europa League.
04:01But for you as a coach, what is the biggest difficulty for you, the biggest challenge?
04:05Managing different competitions, one week to the next, knowing in the Premier League that you haven't really got anything to play for.
04:11The hardest part is to, for the players, some players understand that if you play on Sunday, you can play Thursday.
04:21That is the first point. It doesn't matter.
04:23Then we have to, again, to show the importance of every game in Manchester United.
04:29Then every position that you have in the Premier League, you win more money.
04:35So that's important.
04:36Then you're fighting for your proud.
04:39Of course, we don't have nothing to fight.
04:41We have this second leg really important for us.
04:43We know that.
04:44But we need to be competitive in every game.