Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim had little time for Arne Slot’s spiky comments, offering a blunt retort of, “I don’t care.”
The Liverpool manager has repeatedly delivered a thinly veiled critique of United’s tactics in recent days. Slot came across as bitter when he bemoaned how Amorim’s side were insistent on “playing long balls” in a “low block” even “with all their talented players” after Liverpool were beaten 2–1 at Anfield by that strategy. The Dutch boss doubled down on that stance with another swipe at United after earning a Champions League victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.
Amorim was unimpressed. “I don’t care what Slot is saying, what people are saying about our team,” he huffed during Friday’s press conference. “I can watch the game and say we can do better and we need to do better in the future but sometimes you need to adapt to the game.”
As United goalkeeper Senne Lammens pointed out after the famous Anfield victory, the Red Devils went long to avoid getting smothered by Liverpool’s high press, an approach which clearly worked.
“I don’t need anyone to evaluate my team,” Amorim added before turning his attention to the visit from Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. “I can evaluate my team and I am really clear that we should play better with the ball and we are going to try to do that in this game.”
