Tottenham Ange Postecoglou has no sympathy for Ruben Amorim as Manchester United injuries mount

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·16 February 2025

Tottenham Ange Postecoglou has no sympathy for Ruben Amorim as Manchester United injuries mount

As Spurs welcomed back five players from injury, their opponents lost six

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Ange Postecoglou has no sympathy for Ruben Amorim amid Manchester United’s injury crisis — because Tottenham have been there and done that.

Amorim had to name eight teenagers without a single Premier League minute to their bench on Sunday as United lost 1-0 at Tottenham in a match decided by James Maddison’s early strike.

The selection nightmare came after Amad Diallo, Manuel Ugarte, Toby Collyer and Kobbie Mainoo all suffered injuries during the week leading up to the game, and then Christian Eriksen and Leny Yoro succumbed to illness, leaving United with 12 first-team absentees against Tottenham.

Spurs have endured their own injury toil for much of this season, with Postecoglou having to start academy players and field teenagers for the last couple of months. It has hit Spurs’ form, with Sunday’s victory their first at home in the league since November.

Tottenham welcomed five injured players back against United, but the Red Devils’ fitness record is only getting more severe.

Asked whether he had sympathy for Amorim and other managers dealing with injuries, Postecoglou said: “If I check my office, I don’t have any sympathy cards from other managers, so that hasn’t happened.

“I could see Ruben there, players out of position, kids on the bench. Well, welcome to my world. But that's for one game. Now do that for two months. Do that for two months. Any club. Do that for two months.

“I thought Man United were good today, considering all that, and we had our days when we were good, we beat Liverpool in this spell.”

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