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A documentary on Manchester United’s 99 treble: How coach Amorim drew inspiration from Sir Alex Ferguson and his team in United 5-4 win over Lyon | Football News

A documentary on Manchester United’s 99 treble: How coach Amorim drew inspiration from Sir Alex Ferguson and his team in United 5-4 win over Lyon | Football News

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While Manchester United scripted a historic come from behind 5-4 win in the Europa League quarter-finals at Old Trafford last night, coach Rubem Amorim has revealed he had watched the Amazon Prime documentary ‘99’ made on United’s dramatic 2-1 win over Bayern Munich in the Champions Trophy final in 1999 prior to the Thursday’s match. The then Sir Alex Ferguson coached side had lifted the Champions Trophy to make the treble after winning the Premier League and FA Cup. United were trailing 0-1 till the 90th minute in the 1999 final before goals by Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer led the team to their second Champions League trophy and first under Ferguson. On Thursday night, United, who once trailed 2-4 scored two goals in the final minute of extra time to score a 5-4 win at Old Trafford and 7-6 aggregate win to advance to the semi-finals. “I was watching the 1999 documentary to have some inspiration for these moments. It was a great night, the team were tired, 4-2 with one more player, …

Sometimes it’s just a misunderstanding: Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on Nemanja Matic-Andre Onana spat | Football News

Sometimes it’s just a misunderstanding: Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on Nemanja Matic-Andre Onana spat | Football News

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With Manchester United’s Andre Onana and Lyon’s Nemanja Matic going back and forth over the goalie’s comments on “how United is “way better” than Lyon with the Serbian midfielder branding the Cameroonian shot-stopper ‘the worst goalkeeper in United’s history’, the Red Devils coach Ruben Amorim said that it was just a case of misunderstanding “If you see the full quote of Andre Onana, it’s quite different. The first sentence is Lyon is a very, very good team, so I think sometimes the players or coaches don’t listen to the full quotes. Sometimes it’s just a misunderstanding and I know Matic also. He’s a great guy. It is going to be a normal game,” Amorim said on the eve of the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinal between Manchester United and Lyon. “Again, if you look at the quotes, you cannot see disrespect there. Just respect but trying to give confidence and to show confidence in his team, especially in this year. “So, everybody can talk bad things about Manchester United. Sometimes our group as …

Nemanja Matic calls Andre Onana ‘one of the worst goalkeepers’ in Manchester United’s history

Nemanja Matic calls Andre Onana ‘one of the worst goalkeepers’ in Manchester United’s history

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Former Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has branded current United goalkeeper Andre Onana “one of the worst goalkeepers” in the English club’s history ahead of the Europa League match between Matic’s current team Lyon and United. Matic was responding to comments from Onana about how United is “way better” than Lyon. “I respect everyone but to say that you need to give an answer. If you are one of the worst goalkeepers in Man United history, you need to take care what you are talking about,” the 36-year-old Matic said. He had played for United from 2017-22 and left the 20-time English champions before Onana arrived from Inter Milan in 2023. “If David De Gea, Peter Schmeichel, (Edwin) van der Sar said that, I would question myself,” Matic added when asked about Onana’s comments. “But if you are one of statistically the worst goalkeepers in Man United’s modern history, then he needs to show that before he says. We will see.” Story continues below this ad Onana has now responded to the comments on his …