The boss of Manchester United Ruben Amorim needs drinks in urgent Europa League Glory to save his season – and his reputation.
Because Amorim is currently statistically the worst of all United managers to take the warm chair since Sir Alex Ferguson left 12 years ago.
Only the victory over Lyon in the quarter -final second stage of the Europa League would be sufficient to take the Portuguese for the much marked Ralf Rangnick in terms of profit percentage in all competitions.
And even that stat is filled by a friendly Europa League list of arms -with Amorim's Premier League record, at just over one point per game, by far the worst of all bosses.
Amorim will be guaranteed to lead united to their most gloomy domestic record since Fergie left, after they led them to the 13th title of his reign in his farewell campaign of 2012/13.
In fact, it is probably the worst season of the club, because they were last relegated in 1974.
To make it even worse, his hated rivals are about to win their 20th English crown, who would attract them at a level with United and put them back on the perch that Ferguson had abolished them.
And fans of Liverpool are not so busy to prepare to celebrate that they have not noticed an incredible comparison with their own days in the crazy people.
How Amorim relates to a manager from their own days in the Doldrums.
Roy Hodgson's short -lived government in Anfield will be remembered forever as one of the most disastrous manager at a Big Six Club in history.
Hodgson was fired in January 2011 after replacing Rafael Benitez and somehow Liverpool sent in a relegation struggle.
But even he harvested 25 points in 20 Premier League matches before he was taught.
Amorim only has 23 points of 21 games that are in charge – with only six wins and ten defeats.
United was only four points of the Champions League spots in the Prem when Amorim arrived as much fanfare.
The 40-year-old was recommended as the smart young thing that the club would send in a better future.
Instead, he has challenged the worst run of every United boss in the first era.
And United is now 14th in the table, three points above 17th and a whole seventeen points behind Buren Manchester City in the fifth.
In all competitions, Amorim's record is even worse than Rangnick, who won only 37.9 percent of his competitions in Interim -complaint during that strange transition season of 2021/22.
The Austrian and Amorim are the only successors of Ferguson who have not succeeded in winning at least half of their games.
Even David Moyes, who only lasted one season as the direct replacement for his colleague Scot, succeeded.
And Jose Mourinho, who familiarly claimed that he would take United to Second in the competition in 2017/8, was one of his biggest achievements, is proud of the table in the Post-Fergie World.
Amorim is good at matching Countryman Mourinho's Old Trafford record.
But beating Lyon would give Amorim his 13th victory in 33 games, making his general profit percentage to 39.4, just before Rangnick's 37.9.
Whatever the result is against the French side, the United Boss still has it all to do in the competition.
Only if Amorim wins all six remaining Prem matches, does his profit percentage reach 44.4 to catch up with Rangnick's.
And even in that unlikely scenario, points per game would still be lower, at 1.52 to the 1.54 of the Austrian.
In a season where a maximum of 11 English clubs could be eligible for the European competition, United has been so bad that they have little chance of doing this per competition.
They are already guaranteed to 'beat' their lowest finish of the Premier League era, which was seventh under Moyes.
And their only hope for a return to the Champions League is to win the Europa League title in May.
It is really s ** t of bust for Amorim and United against Lyon. Many fans fear that they will deliver the first.
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