Ruben Amorim has shared his lowest Man Utd moment. (Image: TNT SPORTS)
revealed his “embarrassing” low point as head coach during a tumultuous first two months at the club. The Portuguese tactician arrived from his dominant empire at Sporting in November and was quickly reminded what defeat tasted like, with six in his first 11 games at the helm.
Amorim has been granted more time on the training pitch since the turn of the year, which marked the end of a new assignment every few days.
And it is already bearing fruit in the form of a well-deserved 2-2 against at Anfield and an FA Cup third-round victory at .
Amorim has shied away from the fact that the situation at United was always going to get worse before it gets better under his stewardship.
The Red Devils enter tonight’s clash against Southampton 15th in the table, 15 points adrift of the top four.
But despite his clear understanding of the task at hand, he admits the 3-0 defeat at home to AFC Bournemouth in December was his toughest day on the job thus far.
“I think you can put both [highlight and lowlight] together – the end of Bournemouth. That loss was so hard on me,” Amorim told TNT Sports.
“It was really, really hard. A second defeat in a row, 3-0 again. But then at the end, you have your friends clapping. It’s so embarrassing and good at the same time.
Bournemouth beat Man Utd 3-0 at Old Trafford. (Image: Getty)
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“You can put them together and feel that this is the club where I want to stay and to win.
“And then the other feeling is that it’s like we are disappointing a lot of people. So I can put this moment and explain both sides of the coin.”
Amorim inherited a similar wreckage when he became Sporting boss in 2020. Over the following four years, the 39-year-old transformed the Lisbon giants into Portugal’s dominant force.
And he is confident that such experience will help him replicate the feat at Old Trafford over the coming years.
He added: “The good thing is that I had this process at my former club.
“Everything is different – the pressure, the players, the league – but the process is the same. You know what kind of steps you have to do.
“Of course, you don’t control the results, but everything until now was like I was expecting. That is a good thing because I really know what we are doing.
“I think we need to be really calm in every moment, but for me, the most important thing is to have this commitment in the way we face the games.
“[But] it’s not going to be enough [on its own]. We are going to have to play a different kind of football, and I think in the future we can deliver that.”