Ruben Amorim's Manchester United -side lost for the 18th time against Chelsea on Friday evening and Roy Keane did not stop his former side and accuses them of a “lack of fight” after sliding away to the 16th in the table
The legend Roy Keane of Manchester United has claimed that the team must be “ashamed” this season for their sad record in the Premier League and said he understood why Ruben Amorim only wanted to add to the club this summer.
The Red Devils are on their entire season on the Europa League final against Tottenham next week, but are currently 16th in the Premier League after a gloomy season, so that they lost 18 times after their 1-0 defeat against Chelsea.
When Amorim took over from Erik ten Hag in October, the team was only six points of the top four. They are now 27 points of the Champions League places after losing an alarming amount of competitions.
Amorim has made changes to recent competitions while he tries to juggle their progress to the European final in Bilbao, but Keane is still sanging about the versions of United – and accuses them of “a lack of fight”.
“Man Utd should be ashamed of this,” he told Sky Sports prior to their journey to Chelsea. “People talk about my time in the dressing room, but I was in other changing rooms – in Nottingham Forest and Celtic.
“What you want from players is as usual. What I see is the lack of fight, the lack of competing. You can forgive teams for losing, but when the manager is scratching and scratching his head for most weeks. Amorim's head turns to be a man utd manager.
“I get why he thought: I didn't want to get into that mess [until the summer]. He will be happy to see the back of this season. Some games have just written off. I have never heard so much about this club about next week's game. “
The Irishman added: “Don't think for a minute that this team will be top four or top five. They lost 17 games this season, but they lost 14 last year. It's not just this season.
“This team just doesn't know how to compete. This is the bit that I don't get. Week in week out is the sign of greatness. And these players? Every week they don't know how to compete.”
Before he traveled to Stamford Bridge on Friday evening, United had lost four of their last five Premier League matches. Amorim struck his side because he was not “afraid of losing a game” and even suggested that he might have to leave.
“We lose the feeling that we are a huge club and it is the end of the world to lose a game at home.
“If we are not afraid to lose a game like Manchester United and no longer have that fear, this is the most dangerous that a big club can have.”
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