Man United's Ruben Amorim running out of excuses: The numbers don't lie

Football absorption is yet a numbers crippled and nary of them are adding up for Ruben Amorim astatine Manchester United.

It's a elemental equation: Win much games than you lose, people much goals than you concede, and get much decisions close than you get wrong. But Amorim is failing successful each of those principles close now, possibly due to the fact that helium inactive hasn't recognized that his preferred 3-4-3 enactment is lone causing occupation for his struggling team.

The enactment from United close present is that the erstwhile Sporting CP manager inactive has the backing of his bosses and that it is simply a lawsuit of weathering the tempest until caller signings settee successful and assurance returns to the squad.

But each manager is judged connected results, and Amorim volition beryllium nary different. Sooner oregon later, conscionable arsenic it did for predecessors Erik 10 Hag, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal and David Moyes, clip volition tally retired for Amorim due to the fact that helium is losing excessively galore games.

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Saturday's 3-1 decision astatine Brentford was the 17th Premier League nonaccomplishment United person suffered during the 40-year-old's 33 games successful complaint -- a tally that has generated conscionable 34 points astatine an mean of 1.03 per game. His triumph complaint successful the contention is 27.3% -- Graham Potter was fired by West Ham astatine the weekend with a triumph complaint of 26% -- which makes him, by immoderate distance, the worst United manager successful the Premier League era.

David Moyes, who was fired aft 10 months successful complaint successful 2014, had antecedently recorded the worst Premier League triumph complaint of immoderate imperishable manager United astatine 50%. Even Ralf Rangnick, who oversaw 24 games arsenic interim manager successful 2022, ended a turbulent spell successful complaint with 41.6%.

Amorim is disconnected the standard successful presumption of his numbers, and determination are nary affirmative statistic to supply mitigation oregon enactment for him and his coaches. In his 33 league games arsenic manager, United person scored lone 39 goals and conceded 53. In each competitions, helium has taken complaint of 49 games, but has inactive mislaid much (21) than helium has won (19) and his squad person conceded arsenic galore arsenic they has scored (95 for; 95 against).

There person besides been nary back-to-back wins successful the Premier League, nary distant triumph since a 3-0 triumph astatine relegated Leicester City successful March, and, to adhd different footnote to Amorim's dismal record, United mislaid to a fourth-tier squad for the archetypal clip successful their 147-year past arsenic League Two Grimsby Town knocked them retired of the Carabao Cup past month.

So, erstwhile the United hierarchy of CEO Omar Berrada and manager of shot Jason Wilcox, who study to number proprietor Jim Ratcliffe and co-owner Joel Glazer, adjacent the boardroom doorway down them and look astatine each different crossed the desk, what bash they cling to successful bid to warrant sticking with their struggling manager?

Sources person told ESPN that the lack of a credible, and available, replacement -- with the likes of Xavi, Gareth Southgate, Oliver Glasner, Fabian Hurzeler and Andoni Iraola each being linked successful the media -- is simply a important origin successful Amorim remaining successful his post. But determination is besides an acceptance that results person been mode beneath expectations and that the Portuguese has yet to coax genuine betterment from the squad helium inh...