Man Utd star's damning response to Rasmus Hojlund X-rated dig in Leeds pleasant
Manchester United drew a well-known clean in assault in opposition to Leeds in Stockholm on Saturday – and there have been doubtlessly worrying indicators for Ruben Amorim as he makes an attempt to show issues round
Rasmus Hojlund confirmed his disgust after Diogo Dalot failed to search out him with a move in Manchester United’s pleasant in opposition to Leeds on Saturday. United drew 0-0 with the newly-promoted Premier League aspect in Stockholm in a colorless begin to their pre-season marketing campaign.
Ruben Amorim gave an unofficial debut to £62.5million signing Matheus Cunha, who was one of many solely optimistic takeaways from the match. In any other case it adopted a well-known theme for the membership, who completed a lowly fifteenth final season and are anticipated to enhance in 2025/26.
Hojlund managed 10 targets in 52 appearances for United final season, solely 4 of which got here within the league, and he typically reduce a annoyed determine up entrance. That continued on Saturday within the Swedish capital – and the Danish striker wasn’t shy in letting his team-mates know.
Hojlund was searching for Dalot to move the ball in behind the Leeds defence, however it got here later than he needed it, which means he was probably offside. "F*** sake," he yelled in Dalot’s path. The Portuguese full-back wasn’t serious about listening to his moans and easily ignored him and jogged on.
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The shortage of a link-up between the 2 United gamers was evident later within the recreation too. Dalot did discover Hojlund with a cross, just for his header to be deflected, whereas the younger striker was shouting at Dalot once more afterward after he opted to move to Patrick Dorgu as a substitute of him.
This can be a make or break pre-season for Amorim, however he clearly isn’t involved in regards to the ambiance across the squad, who’re lacking Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, Antony, Tyrell Malacia and Alejandro Garnacho, who’ve been banished.
"The surroundings is de facto good, after all generally we’re going to wrestle, however what I felt within the first second is that if we’re going to wrestle, we are going to wrestle collectively," Amorim instructed MUTV post-match.
"That’s the starting of all the pieces, then we’ve to place the standard. This membership is not only in regards to the effort, it's in regards to the high quality, we’ve to win video games."
He added: "We have to create that bond between everyone [on the United States tour] – not simply between the gamers however the workers. All of the modifications are stopping. We have to depart that as a gaggle. We’ve got so much to enhance, the pace of the sport, all the particulars. We have to enhance."
Amorim was clear on what the primary drawback was. "We’ve got a scarcity of tempo,” he stated. “Particularly in the midst of the park, you’ll be able to really feel it's arduous to convey the ball. We created probabilities. We’ve got so much to do however it was a primary take a look at in opposition to a Premier League crew with two totally different groups, an excellent take a look at.
"Matheus Cunha confirmed what we’d like, a participant in between the strains who is de facto aggressive. We watched that in final season for a special crew. We count on the identical factor.
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"You possibly can see the reference to him and Bruno Fernandes continues to be not there. However will probably be an excellent connection, as a result of you’ll be able to put a participant like Kobbie Mainoo or Mason Mount there. We have to enhance our high quality within the closing third."
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