WATCH: Ruben Amorim talks Mason Mount, Amad and what Europa League glory would mean after Man United win

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Ruben Amorim opened up on the likes of Mason Mount and Amad after Manchester United beat Athletic Bilbao 4-1 on Thursday night to reach the Europa League final.The Red Devils were 3-0 up from the first leg but found themselves 1-0 down at Old Trafford when Mikel Jauregizar struck in the first half.But United's substitutes turned the fixture around, with Mount scoring twice - and Casemiro and Rasmus Hojlund also on target - as the fallen giants secured victory.Watch Amorim's full press conference above.

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00:00It was a good result, I think if you look at both games it was so much tougher than

00:27if you look just to the result we have so many weaknesses and you can understand that

00:33in the game but we are fighting and we managed to pass, I think we deserve if you look at

00:41two games to be in the final.

00:48I know you've said that winning it won't mask a lot of things but winning it would surely

00:54give you and your team huge belief going forward quite apart from the money that you get, it

01:02would be a trophy, it will tell everybody that you are on the right path, it's obviously

01:08the biggest game that you've had since you've been at the club.

01:12I think that is clear and I agree, the money is not the most important, even the title,

01:18to win a title as a coach is that feeling that we can do good things, the feeling to give

01:26something to our fans especially in this kind of season, so I agree it's not just playing

01:31Champions League next year, it's that feeling that we can change things.

01:38Ruben, can I just ask you about Mason Mount?

01:40Since you've arrived here you've always been so adamant that it will be part of your

01:44plans that when he scores a second goal you just have this massive grin on your face.

01:48Can you just talk to us about your feelings?

01:50Not just me, if you look at the bench that is the best thing, that is the best feeling as

01:55a coach and you look at the other guys on the bench and they are so happy for Mason Mount

02:02because everybody in that dressing room see Mason Mount doing everything he can to be available.

02:09He is a really good player and you can see both goals are really good goals.

02:16So I think not just Mason Mount, not just me but also the teammates, they were so happy for him.

02:24James.

02:29Hi Ruben, you've won some major titles before but if you were to win this trophy in the context

02:36of this season, where would this rank among your achievements?

02:41Every coach will say that the next one is the most important.

02:45I think it is the title with more exposure but I cannot say that it is the most important.

02:54title.

02:55I think your first one I think is more important because you want to establish you as a coach

03:01and to win something to say that you have a title but it will be massive especially after

03:07this season in Premier League.

03:09So for me it is the most important because it is the next one.

03:16You said you would suffer tonight as a team and that was the case certainly in the first

03:23half.

03:24Do you feel it would be a similar story in the final against Tottenham?

03:29We beat the Manchester United three times this season in all three games.

03:33And with that record do you feel that you drew a win over them?

03:40Every game has its history.

03:42So we lost the three last games we can win this one.

03:46So if you look at the odds we are closer to win than to lose.

03:54Both teams are going to play like all or nothing in this kind of game.

03:58It is quite similar.

03:59The position of the coach is quite similar.

04:01I know that NG has one more year.

04:04It is different the context but we are struggling both.

04:09Both of us.

04:10So I don't know what is going to happen.

04:13That is a good thing and a bad thing with this team.

04:16I never know.

04:17So I will try to prepare the game.

04:20But I think we are improving if we have more solutions and you can see that we can take

04:26Garnasho that gives us the speed, the transition for Ahmad.

04:31And to have that possibility can help us to win games.

04:34Mason Mount, Kobe Maino, all these players.

04:38We can choose from these players and to prepare a final in a better way.

04:43So that we have to understand that this final is completely different from Premier League games.

04:49Very good.

04:50What was your intention with the substitutions with Mount and Ahmad and what you made of their impact?

04:58I think they changed the games but that is credit to the players.

05:02What I felt that we needed a little bit more energy.

05:05We had to keep the ball.

05:08I think when you play with Manu and Casimiro we win in some areas but we lose a little bit in the way we push forward.

05:18The team.

05:19Bruno Fernandes is a really good player to drive the ball but also to start the play with long passes.

05:28That ability can help us.

05:30Ahmad is to change the game because I felt that Garnasho was a little bit tired.

05:35It was my fault because he did a really good job against Brentford.

05:39But we also need to try to win games in Premier League.

05:42It is hard to think about everything in this kind of game.

05:46So my thinking is always to help the team to win.

05:51Mr. Armand, to follow on from that question, your substitutions have changed again.

05:55Are they capable of playing 90 minutes on Sunday and indeed in the Europa League final?

06:01It is going to be hard.

06:04Players like Mezenmont, we have to be careful.

06:06Ahmad is still getting his momentum.

06:10So some players are not capable to do that.

06:15I felt Nus, we rest Nus but you can feel that Mas Raui doesn't have the energy in this moment.

06:22So we will try to help him in that department.

06:25Dalo is doing everything to recover and I think they will push now to be available.

06:33So some players cannot play 90 minutes and you have to protect them to not get injuries to the final.

06:42That concludes the post-match press conference.

06:44We will now take some questions to preview our Premier League game against West Ham on Sunday embargoed until 1.30pm.

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