Their Sunday defeat at Tottenham was an engaging if bitty affair that finished 1-0 largely because the low quality of defending on show was compensated for by the low level of attacking.
Nobody was under any illusions about the scale of the task he was taking on, but four months after Amorim took the job it would be very difficult to identify any concrete signs of progress.
The optimism that greeted Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival as owner has given way to even more disappointment, with Sunday’s defeat at Tottenham the latest example.
It also meant United dropped to 15th in the table, having won just four of 14 league games under Ruben Amorim.
Covering Manchester United these days feels a little like being a character in Silent Witness: every week you end up writing a postmortem.
