Much has been made of the 3-4-3 formation utilised by Amorim in his last job at Sporting, where he won two Portuguese titles. The boss himself has insisted that more emphasis should be placed on the principles of his team’s ‘game model’, rather than the specific formation.
“A lot of people talk about the 3-4-3 and the 4-3-3 and all that stuff,” he said in his first interview last week.
“But when I think as a player or as a team-mate of Manchester United, it is not a system or formation, it’s like the character of the players, the way they see the club.
“So we have to focus on that before the everything of how we play, how we press. The most important thing for me at this moment is to create the principles, the identity and the character that we had in the past.”
