Man Utd travel to the Etihad on Sunday and they take on a Manchester City team reeling from a poor run of form that included a defeat to a team coached by Ruben Amorim.
"United cannot play the way we play." So said Ruben Amorim after guiding Sporting to a thrilling 4-1 win against Manchester City at the start of November. He wasn't kidding, was he?
Part of that is understandable. That Sporting side had been drilled for years on how to perfect patterns of play in a system Amorim never deviated from. United's squad is still learning the ropes, and they are doing so when time on the training ground is severely limited. As Hojlund said on Thursday, they are developing this system by playing games.
Teams have copied that approach recently, and United will look to put it to the test at the Etihad. However, it won't be as easy to achieve as it was at Sporting. Amorim has seen the blueprint to beat City. Their defensive fitness issues and the battering their confidence has taken have, if anything, made them even more vulnerable this weekend. Now, the question is, does he have the players to get close enough to repeating that approach with United?
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