'I don't care!' - Ruben Amorim fires back at Man Utd critics but admits Red Devils 'made a lot of mistakes' against Newcastle

United fell to a thumping 4-1 defeat to Newcastle at St James' Park on Sunday, with the hosts capitalising on the away side's errors on multiple occasions. Head coach Amorim tried to shrug off the loss but said he team made too many blunders.

He told Premier League Productions: "Many mistakes. Newcastle were stronger in second balls. We did a lot of mistakes that made it harder to win a game. That's all. It's a little bit of everything. it's hard to point to one thing. It's really hard to win against these top teams like Newcastle. When we make mistakes to help the opponent it's even harder. Let's focus on Thursday. I think you can see that we can do so much better. That's it. Let's focus on Thursday. All the mistakes we did today we cannot do Thursday."

On the criticism levelled at his team, he added: "I understand but I don't care. Nothing is worse than losing games. People can say whatever they want to say. I don't want to defend myself or anything like that. If you look at our position in the table, it says it all. Thursday is really important. Losing games is the hardest part by far of this job. Let's focus on Thursday."

Amorim took over at United last November when they were 12th in the league and now they are 14th. This is set to be their worst ever Premier League season and all their hopes lie in winning the Europa League this term. But so much work needs to be done to get this team treading in the right direction.

United will hope to progress to the semi-finals of the Europa League when they host Lyon on Thursday after a 2-2 draw in France in the first leg of this quarter-final tie.