Amorim reacts to Manchester United's 3-0 win over relegation battling Leicester

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Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim reacts to Manchester United's 3-0 win over relegation battling Leicester   16/03/25  King Power Stadium, Leicester, UK

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00:00Is this two week period been possibly your best in charge of the reaction?

00:26I think the performance are improving and when you have the performance and then some

00:33results because it was not all the results, you feel better and you start seeing different

00:41things.

00:42I'm starting seeing different things in the team, especially today you can feel a lack

00:48of energy in some places, but you feel that the team can find a way to win games even

00:56when they are a little bit more tired, so it's a good sign for this team.

01:02Is there any idea when you might not be able to play?

01:09No we'll see next week, it's hard to understand because even when he's on the ground he cannot

01:16speak, he doesn't know how to explain what he's feeling because he's so young and it's

01:23hard to understand what he's feeling.

01:25For Hojland, his first goal in more than 22 hours of football, how big is that for him

01:31and how important is this season for him?

01:33It's really important for him, he's doing the right things, he's helping the team, he's

01:38fighting for every ball and today he scored a very good goal, a very important goal, especially

01:44in that moment of the game, I think he deserved that goal more than anybody.

01:49Alejandro's actually gone longer without scoring, what does that mean to him, because there's

01:57another young player who must have been a lot in a game like this?

02:03He was really happy, but the most important thing is the way he's improving his game,

02:07he's playing both sides, not just in the left, he's sprinting back.

02:13These small things he's doing quite well and when you do these small things in that

02:19manner the good things he's going to show and I think he also deserved a goal today.

02:26Has he gone to hospital?

02:30No, I don't think so, no, he was there.

02:33You've now got this strange period, you've had matches every two or three days and now

02:37you've got two and a half weeks without one, how does that look to the players' gifts?

02:42Do you get some time off? How does it work?

02:45For a coach it's difficult to have a time off, we are going to divide the group, some

02:51of the players, Mason Mount, Toby, they have to work on his fitness, we have to recover

02:58players to help all Harry Maguire, Kobe Emanuel, all these players, we are going to try to

03:07bring those players for the competition, for the final push for two competitions.

03:15Some of the players are going to rest more days than usual, so we are going to divide

03:20and give different things for different players and try to be ready for the final two months.

03:27The players you've mentioned could be back in the forest, but the ones you haven't mentioned,

03:35does that mean they are going to struggle with the players?

03:38No, I'm just giving an example, I'm a little bit tired but you have Luke Shaw also, he's

03:43going to be ready soon, so maybe I'm forgetting something but everything is prepared, everybody

03:50has their idea for this break and we have almost all the players in the national team.

03:59On Thursday you talked about physicality,

04:03do you think United are better now than in the Premier League?

04:07I think also we are understanding better how to press, when to press, closing more the

04:13spaces, understanding more the characteristics of the players that we have, we are improving

04:20the connections even when we have the ball, we are creating chesses and scoring goals

04:27because we had some games without any situation to score a goal, we had games with situations

04:34and we didn't score and now we are doing both, so we are improving in all aspects of the game.

04:42It's the time, it's the time working,

04:45it's also the confidence when you have a good result and then another one you are improving,

04:52you don't know how to explain, the players feel better, the team feels better, you have

04:58some moments that they have a great opportunity and Mata saves us, so the small things can

05:03change the way people see our team.

05:06The away fans today were saying your name throughout, what does that mean to you?

05:15Again, it's strange, it gives me a lot of responsibility but I don't care about that

05:24because I know that we are so far away from what they expect and what they deserve,

05:31so I know that I'm not going to feel a lot better, I just want to win, to improve our

05:37performance and we are far from what we need to show to our fans.

05:43Haryama's debut today, what does it mean differently to finally be in the position?

05:48Sometimes you can see all the situations in the game, you have these opportunities and

05:54when you have your academy for these moments, you have some moments that some players are

06:02injured and they have this opportunity. Haryama and all these young kids have to understand that

06:08they are so lucky for playing for Manchester United and that is so important for him,

06:16so it's the best gift that he can expect.

06:21Bruno Villegas is on the limit, is it a situation where you can see him resting?

06:36No, I don't feel that in Bruno, he's a special guy in that aspect, he's always ready,

06:42he can recover quite well, I don't know the future, but I'm just reading what the

06:52performance department tell me, the numbers and then what I see in the game.

06:57So I always see a Bruno that is dangerous and one Bruno that can recover in every situation,

07:04so he's going to stay there.

07:06Does that surprise you, the way he recovers, the way he makes himself available all the time?

07:11No, I already knew Bruno, what surprised me the most is the way he works every day,

07:20that was a surprise, even that we in Portugal see Bruno with that frustration and I was

07:28really surprised, he's a very good professional and you can understand that frustration,

07:33he wants to win and that is a good thing, so that was a surprise for me.

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