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Ruben Amorim says he will “talk to” Alejandro Garnacho after the Argentine walked straight down the tunnel having been replaced by Noussair Mazraoui only 45 minutes into United’s 3-2 win over Ipswich Town.
The 20-year-old was taken off during a reshuffle that followed Patrick Dorgu’s red card that left the hosts down to 10-men for the majority of the game.
Sam Morsy’s own goal and a Matthijs de Ligt effort put United ahead, only for the Dane’s poor challenge on Omari Hutchinson to earn a red card after referee Darren England reviewed the pitchside monitor on the VAR’s advice.
Ipswich levelled just before the break as Philogene’s cross crept past Onana but Harry Maguire’s header moments into the second half proved enough for just Amorim to collect just his fifth league win in charge.
The Argentina international posted an Instagram story of him looking dejected walking through the rain shortly after the game.
“It was cold and wet, maybe,” Amorim said of Garnacho’s decision to head down the tunnel. “The thinking was we’d play more in the 5-3-1.
“I know that is a risk because you are taking maybe the only player who has one against one pace but I felt the team was OK in the controlling of the game, almost at half-time.
“Then you make the substitution. We have to choose someone to go out, we have to think about set pieces also, so it was my choice.”
Amorim was later asked to clarify whether he was unhappy with Garnacho and the United boss brought up Marcus Rashford, who recently joined Aston Villa on loan, in his answer.
“You are making a connection with Rashford, right? I know, I know,” he said.
“What I’m saying is I’m going to talk obviously with Garnacho about that, so I will talk about that if you want in the next press conference.”
The Portuguese boss was also vocal in his defence for Dorgu who he says made a mistake and didn’t want to ‘harm anybody’.
“Everybody when they watch that ball were thinking ‘here we go again’,” the Portuguese said, “But then sometimes football is like that and we managed to fight all the situations during the game and think we truly deserve the three points today.
“The first situation was a misunderstanding, the way they connect each other.
“Then the sending off, the important thing is that I really know Dorgu quite well. He doesn’t want to harm anybody and that is important for me.
“Then you have this situation. He had that mistake and then you feel in the game that he was making a lot of runs, trying to win every ball, being aggressive and sometimes you overdo it and he has these problems today.”
