Ruben Amorim reacts to Newcastle 4 Man Utd 1 on 13 April 2025

The Reds had a number of encouraging spells of possession at St James’ Park and hit again by way of Alejandro Garnacho after Sandro Tonali’s first-half opener however have been undone after the break by three additional objectives, because the hosts – who have been higher and stronger than us in response to Amorim – capitalised on a number of United errors to make their authority pay.

Ruben believes that the Magpies’ second purpose, netted by Harvey Barnes simply 4 minutes into the second interval, was significantly hurtful to our probabilities of securing a constructive consequence, earlier than Barnes and Bruno Guimaraes went on to widen the hole on the scoreline.

The boss is now eager to show attentions to Thursday’s enormous Europa League quarter-final second leg towards Lyon at Outdated Trafford, though it’s a recreation that he expects to be with out Joshua Zirkzee for, after the Dutchman left the pitch within the second half on Sunday with an harm.

Amorim gave an replace on Zirkzee whereas conducting his post-match media duties within the North East, which you’ll learn a round-up of the important thing quotes from beneath…