Frustration at Old Trafford

“Frustrated, angry, that is it.”

Ruben Amorim was summing up his own feelings in his first answer at the post-match news conference following Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Thursday.

But he could have been talking for the whole United fanbase, including those who booed his team off at Old Trafford.

He certainly was talking for former captain Roy Keane, who used similar terminology to sum up his feelings about the current United side.

“The word everyone will be using is frustration,” Keane told Sky sports at the end of another game United led with a significant leap up the Premier League looming, only to concede late and end up with a point.

“I wouldn’t trust or believe in this team. There are more goals [in them] but defensively and in midfield there are still huge question marks.”

Amorim sounded unusually agitated as he delivered his words, although he insisted he was calm.

He said there would be no repeat of his tirade after the home defeat by Brighton in January, when he cut his hand and broke a TV in the dressing room.

Rather,he will wait and address the situation at Carrington on Friday,believing it is indeed counter-productive to speak to his players when emotions around a game are still high.

Amorim knew what had gone wrong, though.

He knew why his side had failed to hold the second-half lead given to them by Diogo Dalot.

And he knew why Soungoutou Magassa responded quickest to Noussair Mazraoui’s goal-line clearance from Jarrod bowen’s flicked header at a corner to score his first goal in English football in the 83rd minute.

West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo said it was a “deserved” equaliser for the team third-bottom of the table, with just two points on the road as their only away win, at Nottingham Forest in August.