{"id":22202,"date":"2025-08-28T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/we-need-to-be-different-amorim-appears-absolutely-distraught-with-man-utd-player-after-the-grimsby-shock\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:12:27","slug":"we-need-to-be-different-amorim-appears-absolutely-distraught-with-man-utd-player-after-the-grimsby-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/we-need-to-be-different-amorim-appears-absolutely-distraught-with-man-utd-player-after-the-grimsby-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We need to be different&#8221; &#8211; Amorim appears absolutely distraught with Man UTD player after the Grimsby shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester United manager Reuben Amorim looked absolutely distraught by his players after last night&#8217;s defeat to League Two-sided Grimsby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils are out of the Carabao Cup after a crazy game where they fought back 2-0 but lost 12-11 to a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Mbemo missed an important penalty kick, but Amorim felt that the shootout was not the important part.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ITV Sports after the match in the video below, the Portuguese tactician revealed that he was simply confused by the player&#8217;s performance level at night when he apologised to the club&#8217;s fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Reuben Amorim admits that something needs to be changed at Manchester United<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not a result,&#8221; Amorim said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t thinking about penalties&#8230; I think players really spoke loudly about what they wanted today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to apologise to the fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything (it was missing). We need to be proud to go on the pitch&#8230; we play very well in the Premier League, then come on to the fourth division team and play that way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was shocked,&#8221; he added. \u201cIt&#8217;s the moment we made a lot of changes, we try to fight a lot, but we have to show up in these moments.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reuben Amorim reacts during Man United&#8217;s defeat to Grimsby (Photo: Sean Botteril\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;When it doesn&#8217;t show up, I feel like something has to change, but I&#8217;m not going to change 22 players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly a new and low for Amorim unity, and Portuguese tacticians certainly have increased pressure at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>MUFC certainly won&#8217;t put up with this too much. The team also looks pretty bad under Erik Ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager Reuben Amorim looked absolutely distraught by his players after last night&#8217;s defeat to League Two-sided Grimsby. The Red Devils are out of the Carabao Cup after a crazy game where they fought back 2-0 but lost 12-11 to a penalty. Brian Mbemo missed an important penalty kick, but Amorim felt that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-22202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}