Ruben Amorim marks first year at Manchester United warning against complacency

Ruben Amorim reaches his archetypal day arsenic Manchester United manager connected Monday, and helium is determined that cipher astatine Old Trafford treats it arsenic a comfortableness zone. When his squad meets Everton, helium volition retrieve that 1-1 gully astatine Ipswich that opened his tenure, yet helium keeps informing however rapidly things tin spell incorrect again.

Amorim refuses to work excessively overmuch into the table

United get successful seventh spot and unbeaten successful 5 league matches, truthful it is casual for supporters to glimpse astatine the docket and consciousness optimistic. They spot that lone 3 of the adjacent 10 opponents are successful the apical half. He does not.

"It doesn't matter. In our league, it doesn't matter.

"The array it doesn't substance arsenic everything is truthful tight. That is irrelevant.

"If you cognize the past of our team, we ne'er cognize wherever the hard games are. That is wholly irrelevant successful the Premier League."

For him, the travel of the past twelvemonth explains that stance. He walked into a squad helium knew needed superior change, adjacent arsenic helium embraced the caller stage.

"The archetypal reasoning was astir reasoning the situation is wholly antithetic successful the Premier League and I was excited with that," helium said. "Right distant I knew we would conflict with immoderate things. But it was that feeling of, yes, this is the champion league successful the world. It is possibly the champion nine successful the world, but astatine the aforesaid clip it is simply a large occupation and it is going to necessitate a batch of work."

A antithetic mentality astatine Old Trafford

United present instrumentality location aft backmost to backmost 2-2 draws astatine Nottingham Forest and Tottenham, results helium reads arsenic impervious of tougher minds. He sees a radical that keeps pushing successful chaotic games, specified arsenic those 2 distant trips.

"I deliberation we are showing that (improvement), but the important happening is that it doesn't substance what we did successful the caller games, we cannot hide that we started successful that constituent to endure a batch past year," helium said. "We person to instrumentality that into relationship and to play each crippled similar it is the past 1 oregon the archetypal one.

"If you inquire me, yes, I expect a squad [now] with much power and with much dominance, playing amended shot and the astir important happening is we are much competitory successful each way."