One Manchester United player “wants to play more,” according to Amorim, who also admits to taking a “little bit of a risk.”
New Man Utd head coach Ruben Amorim admits Luke Shaw “wants to play more”
after his appearance against Everton on Sunday.
The Red Devils headed into their 4-0 win against the Toffees having drawn their first
Premier League match under Amorim last Sunday against newly-promoted Ipswich Town,
before coming from 2-1 down to beat Bodo/Glimt 3-2 in a midweek Europa League tie.
And Marcus Rashford – who scored their only goal against the Tractor Boys – was at the
double against Sean Dyche’s Everton side, while much-criticised
Joshua Zirkzee got a brace of his own on a perfect afternoon at Old Trafford.
That result moves Man Utd up to ninth in the Premier League table, above Aston Villa,
Newcastle and Fulham as Amorim has the supporters looking up.
All of Shaw’s appearances this season have come in Amorim’s three matches in
charge of Man Utd with the England international just over 30 minutes in each of
the Portuguese coach’s first three fixtures in all competitions.
Injury-hit Shaw is still waiting for his first start since February in a Man Utd shirt,
although he did start for England as they lost 2-1 to Spain in the Euro 2024 final in Germany.
And, with a number of players coming back from injury,
Amorim admits he is facing a selection headache with Shaw wanting to start more matches.
Amorim told reporters: “We have lots of players returning from injury,
Kobbie Mainoo was a little bit of a risk because he was to play just 60 minutes …
Luke Shaw wants to play more, but we have to control it, we have to rotate the team.
In the future we will have a different system, you can see more of a starting XI.”
The new Man Utd boss knows the Red Devils “were pragmatic” rather than spectacular
against Everton but Amorim was pleased with his side’s performance at Old Trafford
Amorim added: “The result was good but we were pragmatic. It was not pretty, I think
, but we were pragmatic. We did our job, which is to win, but you can feel we have a long way to go.
You can feel, in the first minutes, that we are okay, and then Everton control a little bit the game.
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