Roy Keane disagreed with Ruben Amorim over the Manchester United head coach\u2019s assertion that his side has shown \u2018progress in recent performances\u2019 ahead of their clash with Manchester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n
United lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest last time out in the Premier League<\/a><\/strong> but were unbeaten in their previous four league games, with draws against Everton and Arsenal as well as victories over Ipswich and Leicester.<\/p>\n They also saw their way past Real Sociedad during that run to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Europa League in what has undoubtedly been Amorim\u2019s best spell at Old Trafford since arriving in November.<\/p>\n But few would disagree with it being a disappointing tenure in general, with United sitting 13th in the Premier League table having lost 13 and won just ten of their 30 top flight games so far this season.<\/p>\n Amorim was positive in his programme notes though, claiming \u2018it is clear to see we are making progress in our performances\u2019 and Keane was asked whether he agrees with Manchester United boss on Sky Sports ahead of the Manchester derby.<\/p>\n \u201cNot from what we\u2019re seeing,\u201d Keane<\/a><\/strong> said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know whether he\u2019s seeing something on the training ground \u2013 a bit more spirit and a bit more fight.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019ve not seen it in the few games I\u2019ve watched recently. After the Forest game they got a few plaudits for their possession and being neat and tidy, but when people say they\u2019re neat and tidy, what the hell does that mean?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really important to score goals in football. Obviously the attacking players aren\u2019t doing the business and that\u2019s where they\u2019ve been really lacking. I think even Wolves have scored more goals than them. So that\u2019s a huge problem.<\/p>\n MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365<\/strong> \u201cThey\u2019re not dynamic, they\u2019re not mobile. They showed a little bit of spirit a couple of weeks ago at home to Arsenal but the standard of the game wasn\u2019t great and there was no edge to it.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I don\u2019t see where the manager is coming from. I\u2019ve not seen much progress. And the fact is they don\u2019t dig in, they lose too many matches \u2013 13 already this season, 14 last year \u2013 so even when they\u2019re not at their best they don\u2019t dig in, they don\u2019t roll their sleeves up, I don\u2019t like the spine of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n This United side have a reputation of raising their levels for big games though and beat City at the Etihad through two late Amad Diallo goals in December having got the better of them in the FA Cup final at the end of last season.<\/p>\n And Keane admits that despite his reservations over the so-called progress of the Red Devils he believes \u201cthey\u2019ll get a result today and find some sort of spark\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane disagreed with Ruben Amorim over the Manchester United head coach\u2019s assertion that his side has shown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,98,12,1677,99,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-4117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-front-page","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-roy-keane","12":"tag-ruben-amorim","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114295925878784048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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