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Premier League Man United 0 Newcastle 2 Ruben Amorim’s nightmare start as Manchester United manager gathered momentum on Monday night when, for just the second time in their last 40 league visits to Old Trafford, Newcastle ran out winners. It was a win for Eddie Howe’s in-form side that, quite frankly, flattered the hosts, given Newcastle’s superiority, and raised many questions about not only Manchester United players but also their highly-regarded young manager. Amorim himself admitted, after the recent defeat at Wolves, that he was under pressure just brief weeks into his new job and nothing on display last night contradicted that view.

Just eight league games into his reign, it seems an obscenely early stage to be drawing conclusions about Amorim’s suitability for the task in hand. But five of those eight have now ended in defeat with precious little, in fact no, sign of improvements. For the first time since 1979, United have lost three consecutive league games at Old Trafford, although that run was punctuated by a home win in the FA Cup.



In fact, not since October 1962 has United’s match-going support been 'treated' to three successive losses without a cup win sandwiched in between. A 62-year low is the sort of historically inept territory into which this United team has slumped. A miserable end to a largely miserable year — May’s FA Cup final win excepted — started after just four minutes when Bruno Guimaraes swept a ball wide to Lewis Hall on the Newca.

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