Cristiano Ronaldo spoke about Man Utd this week and commented on the job Ruben Amorim has on his hands..
Ronaldo spoke about United this week.(Image: Getty Images)
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Ruben Amorim admitted Manchester United have made "mistakes" in the past after a comment from Cristiano Ronaldo this week.
Ronaldo sat down for another candid interview with Piers Morgan. The five-time Ballon d'Or winner discussed Amorim, saying: "He's doing his best. What are you going to do? Miracles? Miracles is impossible. We say in Portugal, 'miracles is only in Fatima', and he's not going to do miracles."
United head coach Amorim played alongside Ronaldo with Portugal's national team and he smiled as he was asked about his comment. "Of course, he knows and he has a huge impact in everything he says," he said.
"What we need to focus on is the future. We know that we as a club made a lot of mistakes in the past and we are trying to change that. Let's not focus on what happened.
"Let's focus on what we are doing now and we are doing that. We are changing a lot of things in the structure, the way we do things and want the players to behave. We are doing that and we are improving, so let's continue and forget the past."
Amorim insisted he was focused on the future and spoke about the importance of improving United's defensive record this season. He said: "It's a problem, especially if you see the league nowadays. The team winning lots of games is not suffering goals, or shots on target.
"And that is a big game, especially when you have talented players. In one opportunity, you can score a goal and win the game. But I think it's more a team thing, we need to defend better.
"We need to be more aggressive. And we defend better when we have more energy. We have a lot to do and cannot suffer the amount of goals we are suffering, which we need to improve."
Amorim was asked whether United could reduce their number of goals conceded without compromising their attacking threat. "I think you can attack really well. Sometimes when you defend better, you attack better," he said.
"I think it's not that, it's the way we defend the box, but the last game we struggled inside the box because we allowed the crosses into the box without any pressure.
"These small details that you watched during the last game, we have worked on that. In our last game, they had 17 shots and we cannot allow that. It's something we need to change.
"We can attack the same way, score even more goals, but we need to defend better."
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