Players made many mistakes- United coach Ruben Amorim

Ruben Amorim acknowledges his team made numerous “mistakes” against Newcastle United but claims he “does not care” about the criticism directed at Manchester United.

Newcastle defeated United 4-1 at St. James’ Park on Sunday, with the home team repeatedly taking advantage of the away team’s mistakes. Ruben Amorim, the head coach, attempted to downplay the defeat but claimed that his players made too many mistakes.

“Many mistakes. Newcastle were stronger in second balls. We did a lot of mistakes that made it harder to win a game,” he said after the game.

That’s all. It’s a little bit of everything. it’s hard to point to one thing. It’s really hard to win against these top teams like Newcastle. When we make mistakes to help the opponent it’s even harder. Let’s focus on Thursday. I think you can see that we can do so much better. That’s it. Let’s focus on Thursday. All the mistakes we did today we cannot do Thursday,” Ruben Amorim added.

“I understand but I don’t care. Nothing is worse than losing games. People can say whatever they want to say. I don’t want to defend myself or anything like that. If you look at our position in the table, it says it all. Thursday is really important. Losing games is the hardest part by far of this job. Let’s focus on Thursday,” he added.

United was in 12th place in the league when Amorim took control in November of last year; they are currently in 14th place. Their only hope is to win the Europa League this season, as this is going to be their poorest Premier League season ever.