‘Sometimes you can attack better with less strikers’: Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on curious decision to sub Joshua Zirkzee off vs Wolves | Football News
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim defended his decision to sub off striker Joshua Zirkzee and goal scorer when Manchester United were drawing 1-1 with bottom-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Premier League match on Tuesday. With United desperately needing a goal, fans and experts alike were left baffled when Amorim decided to sub Zirkzee off and introduce midfielder Jack Fletcher. “We were struggling with their midfielders, and sometimes you can attack better with less strikers. We played with three strikers and sometimes that’s not the best thing to attack well. This game is over, you can not change the result of this one, but you can move on and go to the next one,” Amorim said to Sky Sports. “Looking at the 90 minutes, we had our chances but the fluidity offensively wasn’t there. There is a lack of connections at the moment. They tried, we didn’t play well. When you don’t play well with the ball, you struggle without it. We need to recover and go to the next one,” he added. United suffered a …
