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I typed all this out before Man United scored, but I think the overall point stands:

I said it when he was appointed, it was always going to be interesting to see how Amorim's system would work in the Premier League, as literally no other team plays with a back 3 at the moment. It is a formation and system that seems to have died out a bit. (It'll come back at some point as is the cyclical nature of football), other people can tell me the minutia of why thats the case, but from my dumb eye, it seems that its because playing either a 3, or a box midfield can easily get round the the midfield 2 in the 3-4-2-1 formation.

 

And thats the case today, Man United are playing a team that are on course to be the worst side in the 130 years of top flight football, and Southampton have continually had space to control the middle of the park. I get that Amorim has a system, but he has to adapt to the players he has, it can't just be this "Its my way or the highway" stuff he comes out with, and there is ample evidence now that this team can't really play this formation, and he needs to adapt, and essentially do what Howe did when he first came in. In that survival season we didn't really play the way he wanted us too, but he did what was needed for that scenario, then when he got a pre-season in, and recruited a few players that suited the way ideally wanted to play, we then became the pressing front foot machine we became. There is none of that from Amorim, and it is very stubborn and looks badly on him that he's not adapting, and i'll still agree with all of that when Man United inevitably score a late winner here. 

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