Only Everton and the bottom two, Crystal Palace and Southampton, have scored fewer than United’s 13 goals in the Premier League this season. Alejandro Garnacho is their top scorer with three.
It is no surprise that Amorim has been linked with the signing of one of his former Sporting players, former Coventry striker Viktor Gyokeres, who features prominently in the Champions League top scorers table this season with five.
But Amorim is steering conversations away from those thoughts. He feels there is enough talent in the United squad to score more often.
“Of course there is concern,” Amorim said. “It was noticeable in the second half [against Ipswich] when we controlled possession of the ball but were not dangerous.
“I know the question is do I need a new striker to score goals, but I think we have to improve as a team.
“We have quality players who can score a lot of goals. Rasmus [Hojlund] and josh [Zirkzee] and Rashford will score more goals. Even Bruno [Fernandes] He has to score more goals. loved [Diallo] He has to be better near the goal. “All these guys need to get better.”
Amorim says he is looking forward to his first home game for United, against Norwegian team Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League on Thursday.
Three days after complaining in Ipswich about the number of media commitments he had to deal with, Amorim faced a packed press conference room on Wednesday at United’s Carrington training ground.
At least this time there were no surprise distractions, after Ipswich shareholder and pop superstar Ed Sheeran interrupted Amorim’s post-match chat on Sky Sports in Ipswich.
The merits of Sheeran’s intervention have been widely debated and the singer has apologized.
However, for Amorim the matter was not a problem.
“It was nothing,” Amorim said. “It was a simple question to greet one of the commentators.
“I was with Roy Keane. He’s a real star. He was really good.”
