Manchester United need goals. Against Crystal Palace on Sunday in the Premier League, it became all too clear. This was Amorim’s 5. Premier League game out of 13 without a goal. English Goal urges Amorim to end the failed experiment.
Goal: – Rasmus Hojlund was on the bench after a poor performance against FCSB in the Europa League, and with him was the only other centre-forward in the squad, Joshua Zirzkee, who has four goals this season.
-And despite the fact that United have spent more than £100 million on Hojlund and Zirkzee over the last two years, it fell to Kobbie Mainoo to lead the attacking line. Mainoo had been a defensive midfielder until three days earlier, when he had played as No. 10 with great effect in Bucharest, but had only scored one goal all season (arrived on Thursday).
-What was surprising is that it took 70 minutes before the coach made a change of attack. From having no natural strikers on the pitch to having two. Even more confusing was the fact that United ended their January business without bringing in any more strikers. They still have four months left of this miserable season, but they don’t seem to have any strikers that their manager has any faith in.
-On Sunday, the Portuguese certainly lived up to his promise of being experimental, but by playing a defensive midfielder in front of the cross to try new things, it also took away from him having confidence in his players. What must Hojlund, a leading international striker, have been thinking when he was told that he would not start and that Mainoo would take his place?
“The Dane seems to be a confident player, and last season he only hit his form between January and February when he got a consistent round of games. His confidence has looked skyrocketing over the last two months, his five goals in Amorim’s first five games fading to none in the last 13. In these games, he has had a total of only 10 shots.
-Rightly or wrongly, the reality is that Amorim only has Zirkzee and Hojlund available to him as natural strikers from now until the end of the season, so instead of messing around with more crazy experiments, he needs to try to revitalize his two players for the next four months.
Well said.
