Ruben Amorim's record against Premier League sides as Man Utd push for Sporting Lisbon boss

Recent years have seen Manchester United's reputation fail to intimidate their opposition.

From a time where United once beat some sides before even stepping on the pitch, the Red Devils have more often than usual provided an opportunity to gain three points against a giant. But, should Ruben Amorim arrive, he may leave a few managers sweating ahead of their meetings in the division.

over prising the 39-year-old away from Sporting CP after . Ruud van Nistelrooy has been with United pushing to land their new boss.

Amorim has spent his entire coaching career in Portugal, taking charge of Casa Pia, Braga and Sporting. As a result, the prospective United boss has rarely come up against English opposition with European competition providing the only route.

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While leading Sporting to two domestic titles, Amorim has taken on , and . Despite more limited resources he has done pretty well, and impressed .

"All I can talk about is the experience of playing twice against Ruben’s Sporting Lisbon team, one or two seasons ago, and the pressure was really, really good," the City boss said.

"I spoke with Matheus Nunes, and he was his player, and he speaks highly about him. And look this season, he is unbeaten and winning all the games in the Portuguese League and the the same points as us.

"So a high manager. I hear that Man United are thinking about him, it’s because he’s a good manager. Man United don’t appoint managers who aren’t that level so the last five, six, seven years, we cannot say they are not able to lead Man United.

"What’s going to happen I don’t know, because what happened here in my experience here, doesn’t mean it works for the other one."

Early in his tenure, Amorim was drawn against Manchester City in the Champions League. After navigating the group stage, the former Benfica midfielder was presented with a formidable task for the round of 16.

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It was a rude awakening for Amorim as his side went 4-0 down at home against City after 45 minutes as , Bernado Silva, and secured a 5-0 victory. The second leg was a goalless draw.

In 2022/23, Amorim took on both north London sides. Sporting were drawn against Spurs in the group stage of the .

Goals from Paulinho and Arthur in the 90th and 93rd minute respectively earned a win over the Lilywhites at the José Alvalade Stadium. Ex-Spurs youngster Marcus Edwards netted against his former side to hand Sporting a first half lead against Tottenham before Rodrigo Bentancur produced an equaliser.

The last-16 of the competition saw Amorim's side come from a goal behind to lead 2-1 against Arsenal but an own-goal ensured the first leg ended honours even. After going be to a Granit Xhaka goal, Sporting fought back through Pedro Goncalves to force penalties.

The Lions progressed in the competition as they won 6-4 in the shooutout. Gabriel Martinelli missed for the Gunners as Nuno Santos scored the winning effort.

Amorim vs Premier League.

Sporting 0-5 Manchester City February 2022

Manchester City 0-0 Sporting March 2022

Sporting 2-0 Tottenham September 2022

Tottenham 1-1 Sporting October 2022

Sporting 2-2 Arsenal March 2023

Arsenal 1-1 Sporting (5-3 on penalties) March 2023

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