{"id":323288,"date":"2025-08-06T19:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323288\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:28:11","slug":"man-uniteds-chance-of-winning-the-premier-league-ruben-amorim-overcame-similar-odds-at-sporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323288\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United&#8217;s chance of winning the Premier League, Ruben Amorim overcame similar odds at Sporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Manchester United will not be targeting Premier League glory this season but Ruben Amorim will hope to surprise his critics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After finishing 15th in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> last season, the only way is up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/ruben-amorim-explains-ultimate-objective-for-manchester-united-fans-will-be-encouraged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruben Amorim wants to win the Premier League<\/a> as United boss, but he knows better than anyone that he is still very much at the start of his rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/opinion\/10-reasons-for-manchester-united-fans-to-be-positive-in-july-2025-ahead-of-pre-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing optimism around United<\/a>, though, after a hugely successful pre-season tour of the United States and a strong summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228389469-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim shouts during pre-season match vs Everton.\" class=\"wp-image-288808\" \/>Photo by Kevin C. Cox \u2013 Premier League\/Getty ImagesSupercomputer predicts Man United\u2019s chance of winning Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/ineos-set-ruben-amorim-a-premier-league-target-for-man-united-next-season-his-future-depends-on-it\/#:~:text=According%20to%20Manchester%20Evening%20News,Portuguese%20coach%20leave%20Old%20Trafford.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amorim is expected to finish top six<\/a> next season and secure a return to European football after missing out last season.<\/p>\n<p>But no European football also means United can put their full focus on the Premier League, which could suit Amorim\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/premier-league-predictions-2025-26-opta-supercomputer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Opta<\/a> supercomputer, United have been given just a 0.6% chance of winning the Premier League in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc20\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc2c: 2025-26 \ud83d\udcc8<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 Premier League season begins next week, but who will be crowned champions this time around?<\/p>\n<p>The Opta supercomputer is predicting a titanic tussle at the top\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weYmEQBhUx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/weYmEQBhUx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAnalyst\/status\/1953044452458541534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the most popular finishing position for United was 13th, with the supercomputer giving the Red Devils a 7.4% chance of finishing there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/rio-ferdinand-predicts-exactly-where-man-united-will-finish-in-2025-26-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rio Ferdinand predicted United to finish eighth<\/a> \u2013 the supercomputer believes there is a 6.2% chance of that being true.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Amorim overcame severe odds to win title at Sporting<\/p>\n<p>Amorim was the clear candidate to replace Erik ten Hag back in November because of his incredible record at Sporting, including winning their first league title in 19 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/opinion\/ineos-can-take-example-from-what-sporting-cp-did-for-ruben-amorim-in-2020-man-utd-must-repeat-it-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amorim is repeating his Sporting tricks at United<\/a> when it comes to rebuilding the squad and resetting the culture around the club.<\/p>\n<p>United fans will hope that Amorim\u2019s rebuild will reap the same reward and bring the league title back to United.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2025\/08\/03\/ruben-amorim-i-want-manage-manchester-united-for-20-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Telegraph<\/a>, Amorim spoke about overcoming huge odds and criticism at Sporting to win the league title in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that last season I used up all the credit I had but I\u2019m ready to start afresh,\u201d Amorim said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/inside-ruben-amorims-meticulous-3-4-2-1-training-drill-which-will-fix-long-term-man-united-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Ruben Amorim\u2019s \u2018meticulous\u2019 3-4-2-1 training drill which will fix long-term Man United issue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Sporting it was the same thing. They said that in three months I\u2019m out. They said that I had a three per cent chance of winning the title with Sporting. I know that the pressure is different [at United].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Amorim can beat 3% odds to win in Portugal, United will be hoping for another overperformance from him in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United will not be targeting Premier League glory this season but Ruben Amorim will hope to surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,101,99,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-premier-league","10":"tag-ruben-amorim","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114983476009674910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}