Minute-by-minute report: Two struggling teams headline the weekend’s Premier League action in Ruben Amorim’s first Manchester derby. Join Simon Burnton
, smiling, that the decision to leave out Rashford and Garnacho was down to what he has seen from them in “training, performance engagement with teammates”, which feels quietly damning.
We tried to evaluate everything – training, performance, game performance, engagement with teammates. Everything is on the line when we analyse and try to choose the players. It’s my selection. I don’t want to send a message, it’s simply evaluation. Everyone understands my decision.There was a moment, at about 5.30pm last Saturday, when there seemed a genuine danger that Manchester United might be turning into a serious football club.
That was only the beginning. By the following morning, Dan Ashworth had been mutual-consented out of the club: five months’ gardening leave followed by five months of actual work, a truly magnificent piece of living satire, even before you consider the compensation United had to pay Newcastle to secure him and the hefty payoff he must have received.
all 15 of Manchester United’s Premier League games this season but that run ends today: he and Alejandro Garnacho, with 22 league starts between them, have been left out of the matchday squad by Ruben Amorim.
But it’s hard to think of a more intriguing recent Manchester derby. Perhaps it’s come too soon in Ruben Amorim’s spell in charge of United, and results – one win in his four league games so far, three in six if you throw in the Europa League – suggest he has yet to turn that ship around. But at the same time we don’t know what Big Derby Energy might do to them, and they have the encouragement of knowing that thisside are currently worse than most sides in the Premier League.
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