Man Utd squad latest ahead of Tottenham Europa League final as Ruben Amorim decision backfires

Ruben Amorim made a number of big Manchester United decisions for their Premier League defeat to Chelsea. Marc Cucurella scored the only goal of the game in a controversial clash that saw a penalty and goal cancelled by VAR, with focus now swiftly turning.

Next Wednesday, United take on Tottenham in the Europa League final with both teams having the opportunity to win a trophy despite enduring awful domestic campaigns.

Having recently lost Dejan Kulusevski to injury, Ange Postecoglou took barely any risks with Dominic Solanke, Rodrigo Bentancur, Guglielmo Vicario and Pedro Porro named on the bench for their Premier League clash against Aston Villa.

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Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie were not even named in the squad and

Amorim, meanwhile, hinted at both rotating and naming a strong team in his pre-match press conference. “If there is a player that can get an injury [and is] not recovered for this game so [it] will put him in risk for the final, he will not play,” he admitted.

“But if it’s not that situation, we will have a lot of time to recover, and we cannot spend eight days, nine days without a game.

“That is a bad thing for the final so I think they will be prepared for the game. The best thing to prepare the final is to play the game. The players have to understand that if you play or don’t play against Chelsea, it means nothing to the final, that is important.

“I’m just preparing the game of Chelsea, that is my focus. We want to win and we want to perform.” but that did not quite transpire.

United were however, handed a double injury boost as Ayden Heaven, who came on in the second half, and Toby Collyer both back on the bench. Leny Yoro and Matthijs de Ligt did not travel to Stamford Bridge though, and are thus huge doubts for the final in Bilbao.

Lisandro Martinez and Joshua Zirkzee are expected to miss the showpiece clash but Diogo Dalot is on track to potentially feature.

Thankfully for Amorim, no fresh major concerns emerged from the clash on Friday evening but it remains to be seen if 90 minutes for the likes of Amad, Dorgu and Maguire will cost United.