Crystal Palace 1 vs Manchester United 2
Premier League
Selhurst Park, 25,189.
Ruben Amorim : “It was really important. But again, it was not just the goal, even the runs behind. In the first half, he struggled in the duels, and he won some duels in the second half.
“And we improved a lot because of the quality of Josh in the second half. And that is important for him to understand. That is not just the goal. We played better because Josh played better in the second half.
“I just said to the players [at half time] we need to be more alive, and you can feel that. So if you are more alive, you are in more places, you are near the ball more often and I think everyone did that.
“But we also need to understand that the opponent was tired in the second half. And when you increase the rhythm and the opponent gets tired a little bit, suffers a goal right away, you feel that we had the control of the game and that’s it.”
“I felt that because I had the feeling, if you see the last plays of the game, they were struggling so much to take the ball out of the box. “And you can feel it, the way they move, that they were getting tired for the second half.
“We talked about that and again, our pace in the first half, intensity, we cannot play like that in the Premier League. “So we increased that and I had the feeling, we had the feeling that if we score one goal, this is going to change completely.”
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