Amorim: Mount needs more confidence

Ruben Amorim showed his faith in Mason Mount last week when starting him in the Manchester derby. He was substituted after just 15 minutes though with yet another injury, as his difficult time at Manchester United continues.

Speaking to the press ahead of this weekend’s game against Bournemouth, Amorim discussed how long Mount will be unavailable for.

Several weeks. I don’t know the exact date, but it’s going to be for long and that’s it. It’s part of football and you continue.

Amorim acknowledges that Mount needs more confidence and he intends to help him learn different things about his game in his time off.

He needs more confidence. If you remember Antony and I played against him in Ajax. He lacks a little bit of confidence to go to one against one so he will improve. But he’s working really hard and he’s trying in displaying more inside than outside, especially in this game. And he just has to do that, to work really hard and I will happily help him to be a better player.

What I can do, is to help Mase, to teach him how to play our game when he’s recovering, try to use that that time for him to think in the different things. Then I think it’s the worst part is that we don’t have time to train like we should do, when you are recovering from a lot of injuries. So, we are always travelling. We have we have games, training, we don’t have the team, all the team together and this is really hard to recreate the game, before they come to the game. And you can see with Vic [Lindelof]. Vic was recovering; they trained really well, we push him, we make all the sprints that he should do before to come to a game. But the game is a completely different world, so they have to have more time to train. So, it’s really hard. We try to manage that with rotation, but even with rotation, it is really hard to have all the squad. So, with Mason Mount, we are going to help him, it’s really hard for the player to be out for so long and he’s trying really hard, the same as Antony. If they try really hard, we will help them until the end.

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