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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim<\/p>\n
Manchester United are not ready to play in Europe and need more time to build a solid base to be competitive in the Champions League, coach Ruben Amorim said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
United, who finished 15th in the Premier League last season, missed out on the chance to qualify for Europe’s top club competition when they lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League final in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we were not prepared to play in Europe, that is my feeling. To have strong games in the Champions League and then play Premier League, we need time to develop as a team,\u201d Amorim told reporters ahead of Wednesday\u2019s Carabao Cup second-round tie at fourth-tier Grimsby Town.<\/p>\n
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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim<\/p>\n
Man Utd “gave” the game to Fulham, Ruben Amorim says after 1-1 draw <\/p>\n
\u201cSo (the players) need to fight for their places, and then everything can change.\u201d<\/p>\n
United have failed to win in their first two Premier League games this season, having lost their opening match 1-0 at home to Arsenal before being held 1-1 at Fulham on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Amorim blamed his team’s defensive mindset for surrendering the lead against Fulham, stressing the players must improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe games are really, really competitive. We need time to build the base and then, in the future, to move forward. We will reach a moment where we need to have Europe for everybody to play games,\u201d Amorim said.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese coach added that defender Noussair Mazraoui, who picked up an injury in pre-season, could be back next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he is going to return next week, we will see. But he\u2019s near, we are just finishing some drills with him, to (be) assured that he\u2019s not going to have another problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim Manchester United are not ready to play in Europe and need more time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,20,5005,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-24913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-ruben-amorim","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}