Sponsored by. DIOGO DALOT has revealed that Ruben Amorim’s “worst-ever” condemnation of his Manchester United side was the best thing he could ever have said. Not that he enjoyed it at the time. The OId Trafford boss accidentally smashed a dressing room telly then did the same to his players’ egos in a brutal put – down after the 3-1 home defeat by Brighton two weeks ago today. Yet since then United have won three games in a row for the first time this season.

The last of those was a 2-0 Bucharest defeat of FCSB to finish third in the Europa League table and an automatic place in the competition’s last 16. Amorim was devastated by that Seagulls loss and there were fears his damning verdict that United had hit a history-making all-time low might have crushed the squad spirit. For he had already admitted that relegation was a “possibility.”. Instead there has only been a positive response and Dalot puts that down to the manager’s damning words, declaring: “I don’t want to hear that.

“So the message for me is the next training session I have to show that I don't want to belong to the worst Manchester United team in history. “You can analyse it as something negative. But I analyse it as something positive because I want to change the situation. CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS. “My teammates also. We showed that we want to change this.”. Dalot is now under his fourth full-time manager since signing from Porto for £19m in 2018.

Amorim followed Erik ten Hag, Ole Gunnar-Solskjaer and Jose Mourinho who bought him – all sacked. The trajectory since Dalot arrived has been ever downward, despite Ten Hag’s successes in the League Cup then the FA Cup – to the point that Amorim delivered that brutal condemnation 15 games after replacing the Dutchman. The Portugal international can only applaud the manager for his honesty and his desire to reverse the fortunes of a club that lurches from one crisis to the next – on and off the pitch.

The 25 year old stresses : “Obviously he is a passionate guy. “He was as a player and now he's as a manager as well, and I think it's what this club needs. “Speak to all the fans they always show this desire of wanting the best for the club. That’s what he wants. “So if we want to win, if we want to go to where this club belongs, we need to be there and follow.”. Following has been traumatic during Amorim’s 18 games so far through a tactical re-education.

Going into Sunday’s meeting with Crystal Palace, Dalot says: “It’s no coincidence when we say that some things take time. “It can sound like an excuse that when we have more time to train, we will get better. “We will get better when we have more time to train, but you can see already that we are getting better. We are improving. “Football is always unpredictable, but what you can see is that we are trying to be more consistent about it, trying to win more games.

“ It doesn't mean that things will be lovely until the end of the season, but that's where we want to go. “We are really positive about it. We know that this storm that everybody is talking about, it will go away. “But we need to suffer as a team, as a club, fans have to be together with us and I'm sure that they will rise again.”. I analyse it as something positive because I want to change the situation.

Amorim, like Dalot’s first boss, now has the chance to take United into the Champions League, despite the club’s lowly and embarrassing Prem position, via Europa League success. Triumph within Europe’s elite may for now be only a memory of the glory enjoyed by Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson but it is still one that for the defender  and his team mates is an inspiration going forward. He insists: “The message I want to pass is that we really know what it means to win a European cup at this club.

“We want to win the Europa League. We know how much winning will help the development of this club.”. Even three wins in a row means something after the nightmare that saw Amorim implode as Dalot looks forward to fans singing about looking on the bright side of life again. He says: “It's massive not just for us but as a club, but for the fans. “I think obviously you go to Old Trafford on Sunday, the atmosphere is already different because you feel that we are winning games.

“It's much easier to work, much easier to train when you are winning, and that's where we want to go. “And with Ruben. And yes, we are right behind him.”. KOBBIE MAINOO ran the show as Manchester United marched on in the Europa League in Romania. SunSport’s Henry Tomlinson has given his ratings of the United players against FCSB…. Altay Bayindir - 6. He was often a bystander during the game despite the hosts often getting up the pitch.