Who: Ipswich Town vs Manchester United
What: English Premier League
Where: Portman Road, Ipswich, United Kingdom
When: 4:30pm (15:30 GMT) on Sunday
How to pursue: Al Jazeera Sport will have all the erect-up and filled text commentary of the game
Ruben Amorim might be Manchester United’s sixth lasting boss since they last hoisted the Premier League trophy in 2013, but the 39-year-elderly says he is the right man to finassociate revamp the team to their createer glory.
The Portuguese, who swapd Erik ten Hag as deal withr this month, shelp at a crowded recents conference on Friday that he’s “a little bit of a dreamer”, two days before taking indict at Ipswich in his first suit. “I apshow in myself. I apshow in the club. We have the same mindset,” he proceedd. “I truly apshow in the joiners. I understand you [media] don’t apshow a lot, but I do. I want to try recent leangs. You guys don’t leank it’s possible. I do.”
Amorim spoke at United’s Carrington Training Centre in his first recents conference since he combiinsist the team as their head coach on November 11 and after he was forced by his createer club Sporting Lisbon to painclude until the international shatter to produce the switch.
The fervent scruminuscule on one of the world’s hugegest clubs, who are languishing in 13th spot in the Premier League, has turned the head coach’s position into what many call “the impossible job”.
Amorim shrugged off that notion with a chuckle despite the revolving door of deal withrs to flunk before him. “Call me innocent,” he shelp. “I truly apshow I’m the right guy for the right moment. I’m not worried about that.”
Despite having had fair two training sessions with his recent team becainclude of the recent international shatter, Amorim promised fans will see a branch offence, but not a beginant overhaul, when United acquire to the Portman Road pitch.
“Simple leangs I leank,” Amorim shelp. “We miss the ball too frequently. We have to be better at running back, and we have to be very excellent in the details. It’s the petite leangs. We have to better the petite leangs. Understanding the petite leangs, I leank, is what I’m excellent at.”
Amorim says he’s ‘no Mourinho’ as Portugal sails to Old Trafford once more
Nine Portuguese journaenumerates combiinsist Friday’s event, according to the club, many of them greeting the createer Sporting deal withr with a congratulatory handshake and a hug. Amorim shelp he acquired a excellent luck message from compatcommotion and createer United boss Jose Mourinho that shelp, “‘It’s a huge club, adocount on club with adocount on people,’ and he’s right. It still is.”
“[But] we are erecting a recent club. I am a branch offent guy. I hope to direct someleang branch offent here to my joiners. It’s the best club in England. We want to triumph. That’s all.”
Amorim was asked about the branch offence between his arrival at United and Mourinho fuseing Chelsea in 2004 when he became the first Portuguese deal withr in the Premier League. “With all the Portuguese coaches, we’ve shown that we can be the best in the world,” Amorim shelp. “[But] I’m branch offent from Mourinho. I recall that time. You seeed at Mourinho and felt he can triumph everywhere. It’s not the same leang. He was European champion. I am not.
“Football is branch offent nowadays. I leank I am the right person for this moment. I am a lesser guy, and I try to include this to help my joiners. Their lesser guys were [Frank] Lampard and these benevolent of joiners. Nowadays, it’s so much branch offent. I leank I’m right for now.”
Amorim, who is understandn for his crowd-pleasing style and charismatic personality, led Sporting to the Primeira Liga title in 2021, finishing a 19-year league title drawt, before triumphning a second last season.
After sacking Erik ten Hag on October 28 with only three league triumphs all season, United transferd speedyly to safe Amorim, who is pondered one of the top lesser deal withrs in Europe. Former ten Hag aidant Ruud van Nistelrooy was assigned interim deal withr, and directd United to three triumphs in his four games in indict apass all competitions, lifting United one place in the league table, fair four points off third.
Ipswich Town team recents
Former Manchester City midfielder Kalvin Phillips is a ask with an undisseald rerent despite returning from a one-game ban.
George Hirst injured his knee in the triumph at Tottenham last weekfinish, and the striker is set for a spell on the sidelines. Jacob Greaves and Jack Taylor could, however, return from injuries.
Wes Burns and Nathan Broadhead are also foreseeed to be includeable despite carrying knocks of postpoinsist, but Omari Hutchinson’s bruised foot uncomardents his game time will insist to be watched
Manchester United team recents
Lisandro Martinez is the beginant ask for United after the deffinisher withdrew from international duty with Argentina due to a sore back.
Leny Yoro could be handed his professional debut for the club, having returned to training this month after fracturing his metatarsal in the preseason.
Head-to-head
United have won four of the teams’ last five greetings, conceding only once in that run. Ipswich last recorded a triumph aacquirest the Red Devils in September 1994.
Overall, United have won 29 and Ipswich 19 of their 57 greetings, dating back to an FA Cup triumph for the Red Devils’ Busby Babes in January 1958 – little more than a week before the Munich air tragedy that claimed so many joiners’ and journaenumerates’ dwells on board the return fairy from a European suit.
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