MAN United should secure a rare win this evening as 18-placed Ipswich Town travel to Old Trafford.
However, as anyone who saw Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Everton can attest, they are performing about as poorly as any side in the division right now.
Only a contentious VAR intervention saved them from Everton having a stoppage time penalty to win it[/caption]
The Tractor Boys meanwhile were well beaten 4-1 at Portman Road by a suddenly healthier Spurs team.
Here’s everything you need to know around how to watch this evening’s match-up between the two struggling sides:
What Irish TV channel is Man United vs Ipswich Town on?
The match will be shown live on TNT Sports 4 with kick-off set for 7.30pm.
It can be streamed via their app or through Now TV.
What are the odds?
The Red Devils are 1/2 favourites while Kieran McKenna’s men are 5/1 outsiders.
A draw is priced at 17/5.
Amorim’s latest warning:
The 40-year-old has warned his stumbling stars: You’re the engine of this club – so start driving us forward.
His under-performers have picked up just 15 points from 15 games since he arrived in November, and Manchester United are heading for their worst since relegation in 1974.
Their Old Trafford clash with Ipswich today is a repeat of the Portuguese gaffer’s first game in charge, in November, with United far closer to the drop zone than European one.
Morale was already plummeting as quickly as the team’s league position even before Jim Ratcliffe’s initial round of 250 job cuts over the last 12 months.
And Monday’s news that minority investor Ratcliffe plans to axe another 200 at the end of the season has sent it sliding to rock bottom.
Amorim has already admitted the ultimate blame for any cost-cutting stems from a lack of success on the field.
Now he has hammered home the message to his red-faced Reds, as they go into a game they’d have once been expected to stroll, yet now cannot be tipped to win with any belief.
Amorim insisted: “It is that we have to address all the problems in the club but one important piece at this moment is to understand how we got to this situation.
“It’s a lot to do with the lack of success of the football team because we are the engine of the club… and I want to improve the players, the results and the team.
“It’s always hard for everybody, when they see their friend and team mates losing jobs, but we have to focus on what we can do in this moment.
“We as a club have to understand what we did wrong to get this this and think in terms of solutions.
“We are in a difficult situation and have to fight against those feeling and fight to perform better.”
On us
United’s woeful season has seen them win just two Prem games at home – Everton and Southampton – and the seven defeats already is the same as the year they went down.
Amorim admits all the changes and cuts of Ratcliffe’s purse-tightening regime haven’t helped – yet stressed it all comes down to results.
He added: “This year was really hard for everybody, and we had a lot of changes. But if you have a team that is playing well and wining it is easier for people to understand them.
“But in this moment we are in a difficult period inside the club and on the pitch so we have to fight against this feeling, do our job and try our best to help the team to perform better
“I understand all the critics, you have to accept it and try to change it. But since I arrived I expect to win all the games at home.
“But I don’t feel the pressure because the supporters are amazing. We have to stop and think it is a new game, it can be a new story, so let’s go forward.”
