On Saturday, it narrowed between Nottingham Forest on course for relegation battle and Manchester United on course for a Champions League ticket. It was a special backdrop, where the two managers have been in focus. The match between English brewing chauffeur football and Portuguese fashionista football ended without a victor.
The proto-English manager Sean Dyche was fired at Everton in early January, on assignment as a football expert on TV, Dyche later commented that he himself would have done a better job as United manager than Amorim.
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In May, Dyche jokingly stated that he had won more Premier League games than Amorim, because he had used a 4-4-2 system. When Dyche took over the reins at Nottingham Forest earlier this month, he spent a lot of time talking about Fashionistas coaches who didn’t win games in the Premier League. This was probably aimed at Ange Postecolgou, who made eight appearances at Forest before he was sacked this month, but we understand Dyche is happy to place Amorim in this category as well.
-I’ve seen enough fashionistas come in and out of the Premier League. You have to win the games, it’s as simple as that. Long ball, short ball? You just have to play effective football. It will never go out of style,” the new Forest manager grumbled earlier in the week.
Amorim was asked before the Forest game if Dyche was right, that with a 4-4-2 formation he had won more Premier League games than Amorim. The Portuguese replied: “Very possibly.., but I’ve always said that I have a certain style of play and it’s going to take some time to implement, and I’ve also always thought that it will give a better return later.”
On Saturday, the two very different coaches clashed at the City Ground. United took the lead through Casemiro, Forest equalised with Morgan Gibbs-White, went ahead with a 2-1 lead five minutes into the second half. Then Amad Diallo popped up to make it 2-2, nine minutes before the end.
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This time it was a tie between the pier manager and the fashionista.
