.
However, despite many claiming Harry Maguire’s stoppage-time winner should have been ruled offside, his gripe with the game came much earlier in the match.
Bobby De Cordova-Reid put the visitors up minutes before halftime, and it took until the 68th minute for the hosts to get back on level terms through Joshua Zirkzee.
Maguire’s winner then ensured the FA Cup holders would take their title defence into round five, where VAR will be implemented.
And while some have spent their time since the final whistle to cite this game as a chief reason why the world’s oldest cup competition should be using VAR in earlier rounds, Amorim focused on his new club’s continued struggles to transition to his system.
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It was his team’s lethargic beginning to the game, believes the Portuguese coach, that left them needing to turn things around to late, so dramatically and, as fate would have it, so controversially.
“We had to believe until the end but this game has nothing to do with the time of Fergie,” Amorim told ITV postmatch. “I think the performance, we have to do so much better with the ball, without the ball.
“We didn’t have any energy in the beginning, especially in the first-half. Then in the second half we played a little bit better, with a little more speed, winning second balls. Then we managed to turn things around so it was a good result, not a good performance.
“The coach is the first responsible, when one team doesn’t perform, doesn’t improve, it is the coach but we are here to do things and to see the game, to study the game and try to improve for the next game.”
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