Amad Diallo becomes jewel in crown for Amorim’s Manchester United
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Winger has jumped to the top of the pecking order of wide men since Portuguese took the reins at Old Trafford. Most of the noise around those in red at the Etihad Stadium last Sunday related to the dropping of two wingers until Amad Diallo intercepted Matheus Nunes’s woeful back-pass and won a penalty before scoring a last-minute winner. The Ivorian was Manchester United’s main threat in a mediocre derby as his flourishing under Ruben Amorim continued, while others drifted into the shadows.
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As Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho endured a watching brief after being stood down, putting them below Antony in the pecking order, Diallo shone. The new head coach is constantly tinkering and rotating personnel as he searches for the best players for individual roles but Diallo is making himself almost undroppable and will get another start against Bournemouth on Sunday as he aims to add to his two league goals and six assists this season.
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The 22-year-old is approaching his fourth anniversary as a United player, having joined in January 2021 for £18.7m from Atalanta. He soon offered a glimpse of his talents by scoring twice for the under-23s in a 6-3 win over Liverpool in his first appearance. “He trained for a couple of days before with us,” says United’s former under-23s head coach Neil Wood. “You could see straight away he was very young but had quality, he was very technically gifted, he had good football intelligence. He stood out, you could see the lads gravitated towards him, towards giving him the ball. He raised the level, raised the standards. That’s what you’re looking for a player like that to do.”.
