Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim on their recent form and hopes of making the top 4 this season ahead of their Premier League clash with Bournemouth Carrington, Manchester, UK
00:00Just wondering about the team news. Benjamin Sesko, is he available about Matthias De Ligt and Harry Maguire?
00:06Maguire is out. De Ligt is out. Ben, we have to see. We have to see if he's available.
00:16He had some poisoning, you say poisoning. But we'll see. Let's wait. We have two trainings still.
00:25But the other two are out. Benjamin will assess.
00:29Are there any other players absent? And also we think of the Africa Cup of Nations. Are those three?
00:33We are still in conversation with the national teams. The game is just Monday.
00:39They are here. They are training. And we are trying to prepare all the scenarios to prepare the game.
00:46Is that frustrating? Not knowing if you're going to be without three senior players for this game?
00:50It's frustrating. But at the same time, nobody knows who is going to play. So it's a good thing, I think.
00:56So we have players to cope with everything. And that is something with a long week, you can see a lot of things and work on several stuff to prepare the game and any situation.
01:09Can I ask you about Mason Mount? When you arrived, you said he was one of the players you were really looking forward to work with.
01:14And obviously now he's back from injury and the stats suggest that when he's in the team, you win far more games than you do when he's out of the team.
01:20How important has he been to what you're trying to build?
01:22I think it's hard to make that connection. It's a fact. But it's not just that. We have to look at the way the game was.
01:30But he's a very, very smart player. He's really technical. Because sometimes to be a technical player is not just having fun with the ball.
01:40It's the quality of the pass, the reception, how to receive the ball in these things. He's really smart. He can balance our team quite well. So he's a very good player.
01:50Ruben, just in terms of the Africa Cup of Nations players, when do you expect to get told? And will it be all at the same time? Because news starts earlier than Brian?
02:03I don't know if it's going to be the same situation. Like you said, it depends on the games. Every national team has his ideas, their ideas about when they want the players.
02:16I expect today to have a decision or maybe tomorrow. But we are waiting until the last moment to have all the players available to choose the best team to start the game.
02:27And just with the league in particular, you were hopeful that he would be available for Wolves and now he's not. What is the nature of the problem and how long is that?
02:36I think he has something in his back. I don't know for sure. And sometimes you see he's not a big injury because he finished the game quite well against Crystal Palace.
02:45But he has some pain. So you sometimes think he's going to solve during this week, but sometimes he feels a little bit pain and we have to be careful with that.
02:53Ruben, you've always talked about the next game being the next challenge. How big a challenge is Bournemouth?
03:00I think he's a top team, top manager with a special player. So I think I don't look at the results. I look at the way they face every opponent.
03:17They press really strong. They are really direct in the game. They can play with different options in front and that gave us a lot of options to work to prepare the game.
03:30So I expect, again, one Premier League game that is really tough. But we need to win, especially at home. And that is the goal.
03:39Recent results haven't gone Andoni Araiola's way, but what have you made of what he's done at that football club?
03:45Special. I think the way they play the game, like a big team, what he's doing for some players that I think they are.
03:54He's improving some players and you can look at that team and look for several players that can play in the high level.
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