Ruben Amorim will take charge of his first Premier League game at Portman Road (Image: GETTY)
insiders are not expecting to pull up any trees straight away, according to reports, as he prepares to take charge of his first match.The former Sporting boss will be hoping to start his reign on a positive note by beating Ipswich, who will be high on confidence after overcoming before the international break.United fans will be expecting big things from Amorim given his reputation as one of Europe’s leading young coaches, but there is no guarantee things will immediately click.He has only been in the building for a few days and United insiders are not expecting him to work miracles straight away, according to the .
The new United boss is widely expected to implement a fresh playing style (Image: GETTY)
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It is said that nobody is expecting a full transformation at Portman Road. Instead, they are hoping for a glimpse of United’s new identity and a clearer idea of what will follow under Amorim moving forward.The 39-year-old is widely anticipated to deploy the 3-4-3 system he found success with at Sporting, but it remains to be seen if this will be the tactic of choice against Ipswich.Earlier this month, the new United boss gave a cryptic response when quizzed on the approach he will take. He told : “I know how I am going to play in the beginning, because you have to start with a structure that you know.”Then you will adapt with the players that you have, some injuries, or no injuries, what kind of players have the abilities to defend, attack, I will discover that in the next few weeks.”We don’t have a lot of time to train, so I have to show something that I know very well. You can take whatever you want from that.”
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icon Pat Nevin recently suggested that other teams in the will soon figure out how to play against Amorim’s preferred system in a warning to United’s new manager.”I do think he’ll make them better, but it’ll be intriguing to see how long it takes for his system to work,” . “Three-at-the-back systems seem to work really well initially, but then teams work out how to play against it.” experienced that under Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel. The system brought immediate success for both of them, but then they both got found out the following season. It’ll be like that for .”He’ll bring in his own ideas and I suspect they’ll work really well initially because he knows the system, but teams aren’t stupid. They’ll learn quickly and find where the weaknesses are.”