Ruben Amorim responds to Cristiano Ronaldo comments as Man Utd boss says 'he knows'

Ruben Amorim has acknowledged Manchester United have made "errors" in previous years following remarks made by Cristiano Ronaldo this week. Ronaldo participated in another frank discussion with Piers Morgan after his explosive 2022 interview,

The five-time Ballon d'Or recipient spoke about Amorim, stating: "He's doing his best. What are you going to do? Miracles? Miracles is impossible. We say in Portugal, 'miracles is only in Fatima', and he's not going to do miracles."

United's head coach Amorim was teammates with Ronaldo for Portugal's national squad and he grinned when questioned about his remarks.

"Of course, he knows and he has a huge impact in everything he says," he said, reports the Manchester Evening news.

"What we need to focus on is the future. We know that we as a club made a lot of mistakes in the past and we are trying to change that. Let's not focus on what happened.

"Let's focus on what we are doing now and we are doing that. We are changing a lot of things in the structure, the way we do things and want the players to behave. We are doing that and we are improving, so let's continue and forget the past."

Amorim emphasised he was concentrated on what lies ahead and discussed the significance of strengthening United's defensive statistics this campaign. He said: "It's a problem, especially if you see the league nowadays. The team winning lots of games is not suffering goals, or shots on target.

"And that is a big game, especially when you have talented players. In one opportunity, you can score a goal and win the game. But I think it's more a team thing, we need to defend better.

"We need to be more aggressive. And we defend better when we have more energy. We have a lot to do and cannot suffer the amount of goals we are suffering, which we need to improve."

When questioned if United could cut down their conceded goals without hampering their offensive prowess, Amorim responded: "I think you can attack really well. Sometimes when you defend better, you attack better."

"I think it's not that, it's the way we defend the box, but the last game we struggled inside the box because we allowed the crosses into the box without any pressure.

"These small details that you watched during the last game, we have worked on that. In our last game, they had 17 shots and we cannot allow that. It's something we need to change.

"We can attack the same way, score even more goals, but we need to defend better."