{"id":4542,"date":"2025-05-07T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/red-alert-amorim-doesnt-trust-athletic-anything-can-happen\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:47:46","slug":"red-alert-amorim-doesnt-trust-athletic-anything-can-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/red-alert-amorim-doesnt-trust-athletic-anything-can-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"RED ALERT! Amorim doesn’t trust Athletic: “Anything can happen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United coach R\u00faben Amorim has issued a warning to his players, emphasizing that “anything is possible” despite being the clear favorites to eliminate Athletic Club in the Europa League semi-final and secure their place in the final.<\/p>\n\n

United prepares for the return leg at Old Trafford, following an impressive 3-0 victory over the Spanish team in Bilbao last week.<\/p>\n\n

In the history of the UEFA Cup and the Europa League, 133 teams have won a first-leg match of a knockout tie away from home by three or more goals, and all of them have advanced to the next round.<\/p>\n\n

This suggests that United is heading for a final against Tottenham or Bodo\/Glimt in Bilbao on May 21. However, after a season full of ups and downs and some disappointing results at home, Amorim takes nothing for granted.<\/p>\n\n

If we analyze our season, anything is possible. We have to understand that a goal can change everything. The momentum of the game, a sending-off… we saw it a week ago. We are fighting to win the match. We are thinking about winning the match.<\/p>Rub\u00e9n Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Amorim states that “it doesn’t matter” that Athletic Club has left behind two of its best players.<\/p>\n\n

Athletic Club have won only one of their last 10 away matches in all competitions, while United are unbeaten in their last 17 Europa League knockout ties at home.<\/p>\n\n

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Rub\u00e9n Amorim podr\u00eda llevar al Manchester United a una final europea en su primera temporada en el club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

For Amorim, the second leg of the quarter-final against Lyon is still fresh in his mind. United led 2-0 before drawing 2-2. Lyon had a man sent off, but still managed to lead 4-2 in extra time before a remarkable late comeback.<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes, during the match we are a team, something happens and we lose our heads a little. If you analyze our team, we can’t say today what will happen. Some teams control the narrative. We can’t do that. I feel that we need to score to advance to the next round. We will have to suffer a little to reach the final.<\/p>Rub\u00e9n Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Amorim has received a boost with the return of defender Noussair Mazraoui. He was left out of the squad for the 4-3 defeat to Brentford on Sunday, but was fit enough to train normally on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n

Matthijs de Ligt is unavailable after suffering a knee injury at the Gtech Community Stadium.<\/p>\n\n

It’s not a big problem and that’s the good thing. He can’t play tomorrow or Sunday, but then we’ll review it day by day.<\/p>Rub\u00e9n Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United coach R\u00faben Amorim has issued a warning to his players, emphasizing that “anything is possible” despite being the clear favorites to eliminate Athletic Club in the Europa League semi-final and secure their place in the final. United prepares for the return leg at Old Trafford, following an impressive 3-0 victory over the Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1087,274,143,1088],"class_list":{"0":"post-4542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-athletic-club","9":"tag-europa-league","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-ruben-amorim"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}