Ruben Amorim admitted in the build-up to Manchester United’s trip to Brentford that even he had no idea what kind of performance his side would put in—it’s fair to say the first 45 minutes at the Gtech Community Stadium would not have been what he wanted to see.
The Portuguese manager, who has been in charge for close to 11 months, has overseen a tenure dogged by mistakes and inconsistency, leading him to concede that United fans “don’t know what is going to happen in the next game,”—he followed that up by admitting “to be completely honest, I have an idea, but I don’t know how it’s going to be and I’m the manager of the team.”
Amorim’s idea wouldn’t have been to trail 2–0 against Brentford with just 20 minutes on the clock, but that’s exactly what he got as Igor Thiago scored a quick-fire brace to pour even more pressure onto the Red Devils.
