Ruben Amorim will go head-to-head with Sean Dyche on the sidelines when Manchester United face Nottingham Forest in the Premier League.
The 4-2 win over Brighton at Old Trafford means Manchester United have now won three Premier League games in a row for the first time under Ruben Amorim.
Full focus will be on extending the run of victories, and next up for the Red Devils is a trip to face Nottingham Forest, who recently changed manager and appointed Sean Dyche.
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Dyche claimed he’d do better than Amorim if he was given an opportunity at managing United, but in the only meeting between the two managers, there was one clear winner.
Sean Dyche and Ruben Amorim on the Old Trafford touchline.
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Ruben Amorim’s biggest Man United win came vs Sean Dyche
Dyche has endured a mixed start at Forest, beating Porto in the Europa League before losing 2-0 to Bournemouth in his first Premier League match in charge.
His first home league match will come against United, who will arrive full of confidence and eager to make it four wins on the bounce.
Amorim will take confidence from his last meeting with Dyche, which came back in December when United beat Everton 4-0 at Old Trafford.
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To date, it is still Amorim’s biggest winning margin since taking charge of United as head coach in November.
Much has changed since that meeting, however. Joshua Zirkzee and Marcus Rashford both scored twice in that game, now the latter is on loan and Zirkzee is struggling to pick up minutes. Dyche has completely changed clubs after being sacked at Everton and taking charge at the City Ground.
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Dyche was outclassed by Amorim in their only meeting so far, and it left the English head coach reeling after the full-time whistle.
As quoted by The Metro, Dyche said: “The biggest gripe of the lot from our point of view is just madness, I don’t know where they’re all going, I don’t know why they’re all running over to the ball. That one is madness. And that’s such an important goal.
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“A large part of the first half performance was very good. we didn’t capitalise on the moments, we spoke about that, we spoke about keeping it tight early in the second half, ironically. Then they score out of a nothing situation. They capitalised on our mistakes, fair play to them.”
It was after the Everton game that Amorim warned a “storm was coming” at United, and he was not wrong. But on Saturday, he has a chance to prove he was just as right when he told fans “good times are coming”.