Amorim’s biggest problem is that there are multiple issues to address. Some directly relate to personnel and others have resurfaced around players being able to carry out his tactics.<\/p>\n
Onana’s performance in goal only underlined why United have been looking at a deal for Belgian goalkeeper Senne Lammens.<\/p>\n
The Cameroon international should have done better for both Grimsby goals and exhibited the same vulnerability in dealing with crosses that underscored Altay Bayindir’s performances against Arsenal and Fulham.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what Onana is doing,” said former Manchester United forward Dion Dublin on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n
“For the second goal there is nothing at all, just a half-hearted attempt. I would be absolutely livid with my keeper doing that. I would expect to get smashed out of the way if my keeper is coming for a cross. But there was nothing at all.”<\/p>\n
Former Blackburn and Celtic striker Chris Sutton added: “Bayindir looks a bag of nerves from crosses and Onana had his opportunity tonight and there’s lapses of concentration.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if he thought he could rock up here tonight and it would be a breeze, but it was anything but. How can Ruben Amorim have faith in Onana after that performance?<\/p>\n
“What an embarrassment for Manchester United. Where does Ruben Amorim go from here? The perception of him now. I don’t think he gets over this.<\/p>\n
“If I was Ruben Amorim tonight there is not a prayer that I would have made eight changes. I would have played my strongest team, try to put the game to bed and then make changes.<\/p>\n
“That was an error from him in my book. He will struggle to come back from this. The pressure this season is well and truly on now. If I’m him, I am officially worried.”<\/p>\n
On Sky Sports, former United defender Phil Jones and ex-Crystal Palace winger Jobi McAnuff criticised United’s approach.<\/p>\n
“How many times was the spare man Matthijs de Ligt in the build-up? With the greatest respect to him, you should have an attacking player joining in and getting into the box,” said McAnuff.<\/p>\n
“It just seems crazy that he [Amorim] is wedded to this formation at all costs, in any circumstances in a match that he is almost forcing people into positions no matter the state of the game. It is baffling that there is no flex at all.”<\/p>\n
Jones added: “When he [Amorim] changed and put Mason Mount in that position they still went with a back five. They were building with a back five against Grimsby who were sitting on the edge of their own box.<\/p>\n
“[But] if he changes now it will be seen as a sign of weakness for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amorim’s biggest problem is that there are multiple issues to address. Some directly relate to personnel and others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115104224702376803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379276","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=379276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}