Amorim keeps faith with Bayindir for Manchester derby

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said connected Friday that goalkeeper Altay Bayindir volition support his spot for this weekend’s derby astatine Manchester City contempt the accomplishment of Senne Lammens.

Goalkeeping woes person been astatine the bosom of different sluggish commencement to the play for the Red Devils.

Bayindir has played each 3 Premier League games truthful acold but was criticised for his portion successful goals scored by Arsenal and Burnley astatine Old Trafford.

Andre Onana started United’s embarrassing League Cup exit to fourth-tier Grimsby but has since been shipped retired connected indebtedness to Turkish nine Trabzonspor.

Lammens, 23, joined from Royal Antwerp for a reported archetypal interest of £18 cardinal ($24 million) connected September 1.

Amorim said the Belgian would vie to beryllium his fig 1 but is wary of throwing him successful astatine the heavy extremity against City astatine the Etihad.

“We are truly pleased. He’s a goalkeeper with a batch of potential. We are successful the infinitesimal that we person to look astatine the contiguous but besides with the absorption connected the future. So it’s a small spot of both,” said Amorim connected Lammens.

“Altay is going to proceed due to the fact that it’s a antithetic league, it’s a antithetic country, antithetic trainings, antithetic ball, truthful we’ll effort to support that (consistency of selection) and they volition combat for the position.”

Victory astatine the Etihad past play was 1 of Amorim’s fewer Premier League occurrence stories past season.

Despite taking conscionable 4 points from their opening 3 games, determination person been tiny signs of betterment successful United’s Premier League performances, either broadside of the Grimsby debacle.

And Amorim believes his broadside are amended than erstwhile they bushed their cross-city rivals successful December, a period aft helium took over.

“I deliberation we are a amended team. I deliberation if you spot immoderate aspect, if you spot the data, we are a antithetic team,” helium said.

“We are acceptable to play the game, but we person to amusement it connected Sunday.”

Matheus Cunha, Mason Mount and Diogo Dalot person been ruled retired of Sunday’s clash owed to injury.

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