Ruben Amorim says Ayden Heaven will continue to start for Manchester United if he continues to play like he did against Real Sociedad yesterday.
Speaking at the pre-match press conference ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match against Leicester City, Amorim was asked about the 18 year old’s performance.
“If Ayden Heaven continues like that, he’s going to play!”, Amorim beamed.
“Of course, he’s young, he didn’t play much this season, maybe just 45 minutes for the U21s, then a few minutes here and there, a full game. I really like his confidence, I like his pace, I think he’s good in defending the box.
“I think he’s quite complete, but he has a lot of work to do. In the Premier League, we will face a different kind of player and he’s going to be tested in a different way, so we are trying to manage all this because he’s still really young.”
Amorim was also asked if he thinks the players are starting to respond to his methods.
“I feel that in the last games that we can understand better the idea that what we want to do. We are better understanding the plan for the games. We’re giving more time to the team to win or draw games. We are not suffering one goal then losing our minds and suffering other goals.
“So we are understanding better the moments of the game and understanding better the way we want to play.”
On squad rotation, he said:
“With different competitions we have to rotate to protect players. For example, Casemiro was so tired, we didn’t want to risk Manu Ugarte he wanted to stay here [Carrington] … we have Mason Mount, we want him to return really really slow. Kobbie will maybe return in a few weeks, we’re not sure. Harry Maguire, we don’t want to risk, we’ll see for Sunday.”
“Everything is important and we want to continue with this feeling that we can win games, and games after games. It doesn’t matter about time to prepare, we can do it. We showed it against Arsenal, we have to forget that, we have to forget the table and face them like we faced Real Sociedad and improve our position in the table.
“We need to continue this feeling of winning and improving as a team.”
The conversation then turned to Mason Mount’s return from injury.
“I think he will go to the bench,” the boss said.
“If he’s fit, I’m going to take him… just five minutes of Mason Mount is perfect.”
“I already said that I really love Mason Mount. Because I see him, I know how he suffers, I know he does everything right. He eats right, his physical aspect is perfect. He’s trying too much. Maybe he’s thinking too much about everything.
“He was a European champion. He’s a really talented player. And when the player does everything like he does, he will always have the support of everybody here in the club…”
More to follow …
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