Manchester United’s Premier League campaign tumbled again after a euphoric Europa League matchday, with West Ham United the latest beneficiaries of their benevolence.
The 0-2 loss to West Ham saw Old Trafford getting breached again, igniting Ruben Amorim’s fury after the game where he even claimed that he shouldn’t be here next season if this continues.
Man Utd now sit in 16th place in the league, ahead of the relegated teams and, coincidentally, their Europa League final opposition, Spurs.
The most worrying thing is that Amorim proved Paul Scholes wrong vs West Ham but that is the worst possible outcome for the club.
Ruben Amorim proves Paul Scholes wrong
Amorim is unlikely to be paying much attention to what Scholes says about him because most of the time, it’s all negative and dreary.
However, Scholes might have touched a nerve recently when he claimed that United’s form in the Premier League is down to the head coach’s mentality which is that he doesn’t want to win games domestically anymore.
That was obviously a wild claim, and Amorim proved Scholes wrong against West Ham multiple times.
The first example was the team selected, as most of the first XI players took the field from the beginning, with barely any rotation to be seen.
Then, even when Leny Yoro’s injury happened, it wasn’t Tyler Fredricson who came on, it was Harry Maguire, a player certain to start the Europa League final.
Clearly, Amorim was in no mood to drop games in the Premier League, a clear message to Paul Scholes who accused the Man Utd manager of transmitting a negative mentality to the team.
However, that just makes the result all the worse. There are no mitigating factors to this loss.
Worst outcome for Ruben Amorim and Man Utd
At least the losses to the likes of Wolves or Brentford could be written off to an extent since the team was heavily rotated, and the youngsters who came in did well.
There were no such mitigating factors against West Ham, a team having similar struggles to Man Utd but somehow beating their full-strength XI at Old Trafford.
That is the worst outcome for Amorim because not only did he risk his “first XI” for nothing, the players are now hurting mentally and probably doubting themselves.
It is why Amorim struck such a harsh tone afterwards, a departure from his understanding POV after previous losses with rotated teams.
He proved Scholes wrong that he doesn’t take the league seriously. His players ensured that he would still emerge as a loser from all of it.
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