We know this storm will go away – Diogo Dalot positive about Man Utd future

Diogo Dalot is convinced the “storm” at Manchester United will pass and is using Ruben Amorim’s “worst team” barb as motivation to help change things.

This has been a topsy-turvy and emotionally draining season at Old Trafford, even by the standards of recent years.

United turned to Amorim after sacking Erik ten Hag in late October, yet there has continued to be bumps since then at a club that begin the weekend 12th in the Premier League.

But there have been signs of progress such as Thursday’s 2-0 victory at FCSB, which not only secured progress to the Europa League last-16 but a third straight win for the first time this season.

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“Football is always unpredictable, but what you can see is that we are trying to be more consistent about it, trying to win more games, and that’s the part that we want to keep,” Dalot said.

“It doesn’t mean that things will be lovely until the end of the season, but that’s where we want to go. We are really positive about it.

“We know that this storm that everybody is talking about, it will go away, but we need to suffer as a team, as a club, fans have to be together with us and I’m sure that they will rise again.”

Dalot said it is “massive” for the fans as well as the club to be heading into Sunday’s Premier League match at home to Crystal Palace on the back of three successive victories.

That run started after a chastening 3-1 home defeat to Brighton in their last Premier League outing at Old Trafford, which led Amorim to say they are the “worst team maybe in the history of Manchester United”.

“I don’t want to hear it,” Dalot said of the remarks. “So, the message for me is the next training session I have to show that I don’t want to belong to the worst Manchester United team in history.

“You can analyse it as something negative. I analyse it as something positive because I want to change the situation.

“My team-mates also, and we show today that we want to change this, so hopefully on Sunday we can do again.”

United trained in Bucharest on Friday having stayed overnight in Romania after securing a top-eight finish that means they skip February’s Europa League play-offs.

Those clear midweeks could be huge for Amorim, who has had precious little time on the training field to implement his system after taking charge at such a hectic period.

“That’s no coincidence,” Dalot said when put to him they appear to be improving in the head coach’s system.

“When we say that some things take time, it’s because it’s going to take time and it can sound like an excuse that when we have more time to train, we will get better.

“We will get better when we have more time to train, but you can see already that we are getting better. We are improving. Winning games helps a lot.”