If you cast your mind back to the last domestic cup quarter-final that Manchester United played before Thursday night against Tottenham Hotspur , you might spot a lot of parallels with the 4-3 defeat that ended this season’s Carabao Cup run. For starters, the scoreline: 4-3. Except this time, unlike that frankly incredible victory over Liverpool in the last eight of the FA Cup earlier this year, United were on the wrong end of it.
Advertisement Like on that day, Amad played an integral part — he was not the match-winner this time, but the catalyst for a second-half surge that nearly dragged United back from the brink. And more than anything else, just as with that memorable win back in March, it was a brilliantly mad game, maybe even madder. After all, the goalkeepers that day did not either concede from a tackle or directly from a corner.
Yet when Amorim was asked how it felt to be in the middle of all that madness, he did not agree with the premise of the question. “I didn’t feel that,” the United manager said in his post-match press conference. “The eight minutes of the second half was like that,” he admitted, referring to the spell just after half-time when Tottenham extended their one-goal lead to three.
“But I think during almost all the game we were controlling the things, playing the same way, trying to find the spaces and I can feel it,” he added. “I saw a team who knows what we want to do, so it was not chaotic in my..
. I could not see the chaoti.
