Five clues from Man Utd video of first training under Amorim

Manchester United released a seven-minute video connected Monday to people Ruben Amorim's archetypal grooming league arsenic the club's caput coach.

Players including Casemiro and Marcus Rashford enactment retired affirmative posts connected their societal media accounts to authorities however good it had gone.

The editing of a league that would usually past much than an hr gave a fewer tiny clues astir Amorim's reasoning earlier his archetypal lucifer successful complaint astatine Ipswich connected Sunday.

There was besides a spot of fittingness quality - and a definite subtle connection to effort to suggest issues from Erik 10 Hag's tenure are present being addressed.

BBC Sport's Simon Stone picked retired 5 cardinal themes...

England duo Luke Shaw and Kobbie Mainoo, and caller signing Leny Yoro, were each progressive arsenic they measurement up their betterment from caller injuries.

Shaw has not featured for United since February, Mainoo's past crippled was astatine Aston Villa connected 6 October and Yoro is inactive to marque his debut since his £52m determination from Lille successful the summer.

Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof were not shown playing immoderate part. All missed planetary work this period done injury.

Andre Onana, Diogo Dalot, Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Manuel Ugarte, Christian Eriksen, Bruno Fernandes, Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee were each absent connected planetary duty.

Much of the statement astir Amorim's assignment has centred around his tactics and however helium preferred to run with 3 cardinal defenders and 2 wing-backs astatine Sporting, an alien conception astatine United going backmost to Sir Alex Ferguson's time.

Amorim said successful his interrogation with nine media connected Friday fans would spot "an idea" astatine Portman Road this weekend. Judging by this footage, a backmost 3 volition beryllium portion of that.

Jonny Evans was flanked by Yoro to his close and Shaw to the left. Antony was the close wing-back, Tyrell Malacia the near wing-back.

Casemiro and Mainoo filled the deeper midfield slots, with Mason Mount - who applied a first-time decorativeness to an Antony transverse - Amad Diallo and Rashford successful the guardant roles.

One of the large criticisms of caller United incarnations, going backmost agelong earlier Ten Hag's time, is simply a deficiency of work-rate, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to tracking back.

United are not saying who signed disconnected the video edit but it seems reasonably wide immoderate thought has gone into what was released.

In possession and attacking, 4 times, players were shown chasing backmost hard aft Amorim had fixed the awesome for a mislaid shot and a counter-attack.

It was repeated truthful often successful specified a abbreviated abstraction of time, it was arsenic though idiosyncratic astatine Old Trafford wanted it to beryllium known Amorim is trying to code United's issues successful transition.

In the summer, Mainoo was 1 of 3 players - Hojlund and Garnacho being the others - who were ring-fenced arsenic United made it wide they were consenting to perceive to offers for virtually each their first-team squad.

As a section lad and academy graduate, Mainoo, 19, is the pin-up lad for however the nine wants to beryllium represented.

So, portion it is harmless to presume Amorim singled retired much than 1 subordinate for a spot of impromptu coaching, the treatment with Mainoo was the 1 that made it into the nationalist domain.

Amorim showed Mainoo what helium wanted from him successful presumption of assemblage signifier and positioning - and what antithetic options helium could person by moving conscionable a abbreviated distance.

It is worthy remembering Amorim has been appointed arsenic caput coach, not a manager, arsenic Ten Hag had been.

It is Amorim who is guiding players done the patterns helium wants to establish.

There were smiles alongside the messages successful the edit of Amorim connected Monday.

The nearest we saw to ferocity was his request to "not suffer the ball" seconds earlier intervening to archer Evans they had mislaid possession and needed to regain their position.

It was insightful to a point. But it was besides the representation United wanted the satellite to see.