Amorim on utd stunning europa league win v Lyon

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Amorim on utd stunning europa league win v 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.

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