Ruben Amorim says that Manchester United played exactly how Brentford wanted in 3-1 losses

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim noticed himself again on Saturday at the fans of the club after he said that his side was playing exactly the way Brentford wanted it in a 3-1 defeat.

United is now eight games without a victory on the road in the Premier League, and any optimism of last week’s victory has quickly evaporated, so that the Portuguese answered questions about his future again.

Brentford was much too sharp for United, because it took a lead of two goals in the opening 20 minutes with a brace from Igor Thiago, and although Benjamin Sesko halved the shortage with his first united goal, the failure of Bruno Fernandes to be the same from the Penaltyspot ultimately turned out.

«I think we played the game that they wanted us to play, the opponents – really confused: first balls, second balls. If we play the opponent’s game, it is harder for us,» Amorim said.

«We never laid the game. We had two goals where we knew that they were really strong in that, with the long balls. Then we tried to come back in the game. We miss a penalty, and all these moments are a bit against us. That could change the game, but in the end we have to – and we have to be better,» he added.

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A consistent failure of United Under Amorim is the failure to impose his play on opponents, and that was again undone in Brentford because it produced a fitful display.

«In the last match (against Chelsea) we (control), especially at the start of the game. Today my greatest concern is the way we have not established the game to control the game to play our game,» he said.

Worrying for Amorim, he does not seem closer to solving the misery of United than when he took the lead last November.

His record in the Premier League is now at nine wins, 17 defeats and seven draws of his 33 games.

«If we lose, we say sorry to them, but they don’t want to hear anything,» he said when he was asked what his message was for the fans.

Matheus Cunha, still looking for his first goal since he came to Wolverhampton Wanderers for what a team source said that around 62 million pounds was ($ 83 million), said the solution was simple.

«Improve, improve, improve – this is the word,» he said.

United will try to bounce back at home next weekend to Sunderland.

Published on September 28, 2025