Mason Mount has said Manchester United’s players are “100% behind” Ruben Amorim after their 2-0 victory against Sunderland.
United’s third win of the season was secured thanks to goals from Mount and Benjamin Sesko, to give Amorim some respite with his future under scrutiny. United have now won three in a row at Old Trafford and also secured a first clean sheet of the campaign. United will travel to Liverpool after the international break, seeking consecutive wins under their Portuguese head coach for the first time.
“We’re 100% behind the gaffer,” Mount told BBC Sport. “We’ve had some results that hurt us – the team, the staff and the fans – but that was important today.
“We thought after Chelsea it would be the start of something and then we go to Brentford and have a disappointing result. It starts today and we’ll be working hard over the break. We want to get back-to-back wins, then three in a row and push on for the top four.”
Amorim called on his players to show that support in the weeks ahead. “I saw today and I know they want to do the best and I know they don’t want to change the coach all the time,” he said, “but, like I said this week, being with the manager is: ‘I will kill myself to do anything in every transition.’ We need to show with actions.
“Sometimes when we look at our team I know for sure that they know sometimes we can do better. We need to show it on the pitch, not just at home, but also abroad.”
Amorim was rewarded for starting Mount and gave a debut to Senne Lammens. The goalkeeper joined from Royal Antwerp on deadline day for €21m (£18.3m) but had been left on the bench until Sunderland’s visit. “He looks confident in the first game,” Amorim said. “But the important thing is that the teammates helped Senne to have a good game because everyone was focused, not a lot of mistakes.”
Asked why he waited to give Lammens a first start, Amorim said: “When Senne arrived here, first of all Altay [Bayindir] was playing and then he arrives and you can feel it. He needs to adapt, new country, new training, the pressure you guys put on the goalkeeper was massive, so it was a little preparation for him to be ready to start his first game.
“But it is just one game and he needs to work, he needs to be prepared that in our club things are really hard, but he did well and again he was comfortable during the game. That’s a really good sign.”
