Ruben Amorim, Man Utd coach. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
Ruben Amorim could become the first Manchester United manager to lose three consecutive Premier League games since 2015 against Manchester City this weekend.
Amorim has quickly learned the gravity of the task ahead of him since arriving at Old Trafford from Sporting CP, winning just three of his six games in charge in all competitions.
Only one of those wins has come in the Premier League, a 4-0 thrashing of Everton, while the Red Devils have lost their last two top-flight games, 2-0 against Arsenal and 3- 2 at home to Nottingham Forest.
Ruben Amorim to experience low even Ten Hag avoided?
Erik ten Hag, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Jose Mourinho avoided losing three consecutive Premier League games. Manchester United manager
However, former Blackburn and Celtic striker Chris Sutton believes Amorim will be the first to do so since Louis van Gaal. against Man City this weekendright at the start of his tenure at the club.
“The wheels have really come off at Manchester City now, who saw that coming?” Sutton wrote in his prediction column for BBC Sportedging City to a much-needed 3-1 win.
“City cannot keep a clean sheet, they have managed one in their last 10 games, and now their manager Pep Guardiola is talking about being tired.
“I know it was in the context where he didn’t have enough energy to go to another club and start again, but he must have also sent a message to his current players.
“You never know with Pep, and maybe he was just being sarcastic, but if he’s really tired, then does he have the energy to change City? That would be a concern for City, with the run they’re in.
Meanwhile, at Manchester United, new manager Ruben Amorim is barely getting in the door and the club’s owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is telling everyone they are ‘mediocre’.
“Amorim beat City 4-1 in his last game in charge of Sporting before arriving at Old Trafford, which got the United fans very excited, but they soon realized, whenever they played with someone half decent, which is the same team that was struggling under Erik ten Hag.
“Basically, both teams have been really bad, so what the hell am I going to do?
“In the recent past, I have always gone with City in Manchester derbies and although Amorim won them with Sporting, you have to remember that City could have been a few goals down at half-time in that game.
“So I’ll go with City to win at home and maybe rejuvenate Pep before Christmas.
“Speaking of statistics, I’ve got a good one for you: United never lost three league games in a row in more than two years under Ten Hag, but Amorim will do so in less than a month if they are beaten here.”
