Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has explained that he was criticising himself more than the players when he labelled his team as possibly the worst in the club’s history after Sunday’s 3-1 English Premier League defeat to Brighton at Old Trafford.
United, who have lost seven of their 15 matches since Amorim took charge in November, are 13th in the Premier League.
Amorim, 39, said he was frustrated for not being able to help his players produce better results.
“It’s more for me, I was talking more about me than the players,” Amorim told reporters on Wednesday ahead of hosting Rangers in a UEFA Europa League clash on Thursday.
“I’m frustrated sometimes… I should not say in those terms but it is what it is… sometimes it’s really hard to hide the frustration.”
Amorim said he had said the same thing in a different way in the dressing room earlier.
“So the response was quite normal,” he added.
“Sometimes you’re a young guy and you make mistakes and you improve. I don’t promise that I won’t do it again, I don’t know. So I will try to improve.”
Amorim, who is trying to implement a new playing style at Manchester United after replacing Erik ten Hag, said he expected some bad results before it was done.
“I understood that changing things, we are going to suffer. For me it was really clear. But in this moment I don’t want to say that it’s going to take a lot of time. It’s getting really hard,” he said.
“You get loss after loss, it’s really hard for everybody. And I know that sometimes I show that frustration but I don’t know that we can change that tomorrow.”
