{"id":661368,"date":"2025-11-09T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=661368"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:18:08","slug":"ruben-amorim-man-utd-afcon-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/11\/09\/ruben-amorim-man-utd-afcon-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are going to have a problem\u2019: Amorim Addresses Impending Issue for Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The roller coaster ride at Manchester United<\/a> has shown no signs of slowing in recent years, even with the arrival of Ruben Amorim. This season began with inconsistencies and the departure of more players. Recently, the performances have improved, which sees the Red Devils in eighth place. Amorim\u2019s summer signing Benjamin Sesko was forced off in the club’s 2-2 draw at Tottenham Hotspur, leaving United short in attack. Man Utd are also set to lose three players to the African Cup of Nations. Amorim discussed the injury<\/a> to Sesko and the AFCON situations.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim Faces Fresh Challenges at Man Utd<\/h2>\n

Benjamin Sesko Injury Adds to AFCON Concerns at Man United<\/h3>\n

Manchester United looked on the verge of a big three points before a manic last 10 minutes saw the Red Devils claim a draw through a late Matthijs de Ligt goal.<\/p>\n

Sesko came on as a substitute, only to pick up a late knee injury, with Man Utd waiting on an MRI scan<\/a> to reveal the full severity of his injury.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: What Bryan Mbuemo Brings to Ruben Amorim\u2019s Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim is already set to lose Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo, and Noussair Mazraoui to AFCON, beginning on December 21, ending on January 18, leaving Man Utd in a potentially precarious situation.<\/p>\n

Joshua Zirkzee is not viewed as a No. 9 by Amorim, leaving only Mason Mount to play as a potential false 9.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim Hints at January Moves as Options Thin<\/h3>\n

Speaking after the dramatic 2-2 draw at Tottenham, Amorim was asked if the club would be active in the January window:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We have to check everything, we have to check what’s happened with Ben.<\/p>\n

“Of course we are going to have a problem [with AFCON], but we already knew [that]. Managing that situation is going to be hard, but let’s see when the window is open if we can improve the team and try to repair something. Until then, we have to take the chance,” said the Manchester United boss.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: What Benjamin Sesko Will Bring to Ruben Amorim\u2019s Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n

When asked if he wanted to make January signings, Amorim added: “We’ll see.”<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

IMAGO \/ Every Second Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The roller coaster ride at Manchester United has shown no signs of slowing in recent years, even with the arrival of Ruben Amorim. This season began with inconsistencies and the departure of more players. Recently, the performances have improved, which sees the Red Devils in eighth place. Amorim\u2019s summer signing Benjamin Sesko was forced off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":651055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18,3],"tags":[7217,9334,3987,9174,9777],"class_list":["post-661368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-amad-diallo","tag-benjamin-sesko","tag-bryan-mbeumo","tag-noussair-mazraoui","tag-ruben-amorim"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661372,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661368\/revisions\/661372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}