Amorim admits Utd need luck after late Maguire offside winner seals FA Cup progress

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Amorim admits Utd need luck after late Maguire offside winner seals FA Cup progress  07/02/2025  Old Trafford, Manchester, UK

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00:00Q. First of all, it's lovely to meet you. You spoke previously before this match and

00:30about the fact that there's going to be storms and the fact that United are going to have to

00:33go through suffering. It was amazing for the team to get a last-minute winner,

00:38but for the United fans who maybe weren't so happy with the performance, what's the

00:43from of comfort or something that they can hold on to, to know that the club and the team are

00:48still going in the right direction, despite what may be deemed on the pitch as subpar performances?

00:56Just today is just a feeling of the win and the fans go home with that feeling of

01:03win. They performed really well. They helped us a lot to change the game. The rest is hard to

01:08point something to give them a little bit of confidence. Just the spirit in the second half,

01:14more energy, more second balls, small things, but the rest we have a lot to improve.

01:20We already knew that, but we need to do better.

01:25How close was Garnaciu to moving in the window?

01:32That is not important. We want players like Garnaciu. He's really important. He changed the

01:38game today with the runs behind. Of course, you can feel it that the opponent was getting tired

01:45just with a lot of difficulties, not in the first half, but in the second half

01:49to stop Garnaciu in the one-against-one. We are very happy with him and I think he helped

01:56a lot to change the game today.

02:07He played a lot of times in Lecce on the right and in the left. That is one of the characteristics

02:16that we pay attention a lot to have a player like him. He was a little bit anxious in the

02:21first touch with the ball. It's a different league for him, a different speed of the game,

02:28but he did well. He has pace, he has strength. He's going to improve a lot and we as a team,

02:37we need to play better to help these new guys to perform at the right level.

02:44But the position, you can see in White Scouts that he played on both sides.

02:51I think it's a good thing. I will not say one word bad about this type of behaviour.

03:20He needs to understand that sometimes he has to do a job without touching the ball.

03:27He cannot get so frustrated because in the next play maybe he will have a situation near the goal

03:34so he has to be calm. But he's a character and if you know so many players from that kind of

03:44character that he has from that country, they always want more. They want to score,

03:51they feel the critics, so it's a good thing. But he will improve. A striker needs a very good team

03:59to deliver very good balls for him and we are not helping our strikers at the moment.

04:04You were so happy with Alejandro, he dropped in the derby a long time ago.

04:11How impressed have you been with how he responded to that and what did he do to win you over?

04:21He doesn't need a big change. We are talking about the standards. It's just to train well,

04:28to receive the information, to understand that we want to help them, we want to play in a different

04:35system. But it's not complicated. It changed everything. He trained really well. He stayed

04:45on the bench five games in a row and every time he came on the pitch he was a different guy,

04:50receiving the information and playing. So it's simple things, it's not a big thing. It just

04:55really happened and you can see it. I think he's improving.

05:02Throughout the first half, you seem to have given instructions.

05:08Did that also play into you playing on the right-hand side, so you could be a lot closer

05:11to him throughout the game? No, it was not that. I was giving

05:16a lot of information because if you see Leicester building up, sometimes the left defender,

05:23the full-back is building up. So we make one pressure to one side and then they change

05:30completely for this game. We have to manage to change everything. So I was trying to help Dorgu

05:36to manage the game. He has three trainings, so it was really hard for him, but it was not like that.

05:44It helped us a lot, the communication there, but it was not that idea.

05:48Is there more Dorgu on the right-hand side? Yes, yes. Again, if you're going to see the

05:53history of Dorgu in the last team, he played a lot of games also on the right. And we have to

06:01have wingers that can play both sides, like Dalot. So I think it's a really good,

06:08important thing because sometimes you need the left foot on the right side to come inside

06:12to connect in a different way. And sometimes you need the right foot to connect and to cross

06:19more balls. So it's like that. Last question, James.

06:22Ruben, Harry Maguire looks to be in an offside position. He's always got the goals and he'll be

06:27AR. I mean, you obviously got a break, a bit of luck with that, but is it what you need in this

06:34moment, a bit of luck like that? I think so, yes. We need a lot of things. There's nothing to do with

06:40luck. It has to do with quality on the work. We need to improve every detail of the game,

06:46our energy. My work with them has to be so, so much better. But sometimes we need a little bit

06:53luck. And today we had. It's not luck because with VRR, it was not a goal. And I think it's

07:00important to have because it's fair for the game. It's really hard to lose one game in the last

07:05minute with an offside play. But we need and sometimes we deserve a little bit luck.

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