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Manchester United brag Ruben Amorim says his players are "too anxious, excessively afraid" and that his team's mediocre signifier has taken its toll connected him.
United caput to leaders Liverpool connected Sunday (16:30 GMT) connected the backmost of 4 successive defeats successful each competitions - including 3 successful the Premier League.
They person won conscionable 2 top-flight matches since Amorim took complaint successful November and are lone 7 points supra the relegation zone.
"You tin spot successful my face, you tin comparison it to the mode erstwhile I get and now," said Amorim, who has mislaid 5 of his 8 Premier League games successful charge.
"Of people determination is simply a batch of pressure. For me, it's the pridefulness and besides the performance.
"It's harder erstwhile we don't execute well."
United mislaid 3-0 astatine location to Bournemouth, 2-0 astatine Wolves earlier slumping to a 2-0 location decision against Newcastle successful the abstraction of 8 days implicit the festive period.
They person not mislaid 4 league games successful a enactment successful the aforesaid play since betwixt December and February 1979, portion they past suffered 4 defeats successful a enactment without scoring backmost successful April 1909.
"They are anxious, sometimes acrophobic connected the pitch," Amorim said of his players. "We person to header with that."
On Friday, United's Portuguese brag said "we are starving for leaders connected the pitch" arsenic helium praised defender Harry Maguire for bouncing backmost from hard times.
"We request the leaders to measurement up to assistance the different guys and I'm the astir liable idiosyncratic present to amended the performances," helium added.
"You tin spot the players are trying, sometimes excessively anxious, excessively acrophobic to play shot due to the fact that this is simply a hard infinitesimal and we volition assistance the players to beryllium better."
United, who are 23 points down Liverpool having played 1 crippled more, person not won astatine Anfield since January 2016 erstwhile Wayne Rooney scored the lone extremity of the game.
Meanwhile, United person failed to people connected the past 5 visits, with their past extremity astatine the venue coming successful December 2018.
Despite his team's worrying form, Amorim said amended times were coming for United and their fans.
"I volition bash my best," helium said. "I americium giving everything to assistance the nine and we are going to succeed. I cognize it is hard to recognize that successful this moment, but we are going to succeed."
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