Amorim Backs Fernandes To Stay On Manchester United Penalties Despite Misses

Ruben Amorim has said Bruno Fernandes will proceed arsenic Manchester United’s punishment taker contempt missing 2 of nan 3 awarded nan squad this season.

Fernandes missed from nan spot successful nan 1-1 tie astatine Fulham and nan 3-1 conclusion astatine Brentford, scoring successful nan 3-2 triumph complete Burnley. Amorim said: “Yes, he’s nan main taker. I deliberation he has 70 penalties and he misses 9 – 2 pinch me.”

The caput coach chuckled arsenic he reflected connected nan 2 missed nether him. “I’m really irritated pinch that,” Amorim said. “But he’s really confident. He’s training [to take] nan penalties, trying to understand that group are watching nan measurement he [tries to] people penalties. So he will beryllium ready.”

United are astatine Liverpool connected Sunday, having won location successful nan Premier League once successful nan past decade: a 1-0 triumph successful 2016 via a Wayne Rooney goal. Amorim was asked whether his players were fresh for a bear-pit-like ambiance astatine Anfield and looked backmost to January’s 2-2 draw there.

“The situation is going to beryllium large but we are fresh to play successful that,” he said. “If you look astatine past year, sometimes we play amended successful that benignant of situation than nan unit astatine home. We ne'er cognize what is going to happen. We showed past twelvemonth there, we tin grip it. The measurement we commencement nan crippled is much important than nan environment. To do a really bully warm-up. To person a feeling. To understand that it’s going to beryllium reliable successful nan first moments. I cognize they are ready.”

Amorim dismissed United’s mediocre caller grounds astatine Anfield by saying galore successful his broadside whitethorn not beryllium alert of it. “Football players nowadays don’t watch galore games, unfortunately,” he said. “I person truthful galore things to usage [as inspiration] pinch our players. Like winning back-to-back games [in nan convention for nan first time]. We person truthful overmuch to triumph if we execute and triumph nan adjacent game. I don’t request to usage those games successful nan past.”

Amorim was asked astir reports linking Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee pinch imaginable moves successful January. He said: “I cognize that successful our nine location is simply a batch of noise. You person to person news. Players are not playing. They want to play. There’s a World Cup. I understand that but they are our players and we request everyone to person a bully season.”

A declare by Marcus Rashford, who is connected indebtedness astatine Barcelona, that he had been in an “inconsistent environment” astatine United was shrugged disconnected by Amorim. “I’m conscionable focused connected nan early of nan club, connected nan coming of nan club,” he said. “That is nan astir important thing.”