Just for a moment, Ruben Amorim’s easy smile disappeared and the eyes narrowed.
‘New system? Wolves play a new system?’ Amorim shot back at his inquisitor in the press room at Molineux.
‘They played the same system and Vitor Pereira worked the same system in Saudi Arabia. Wolves is a completely different situation. The squad was built up for this system.’
Late on Boxing Day, and perhaps for the first time we were seeing the strain on Amorim starting to show.
Manchester United’s new Portuguese coach had just suffered his third defeat in a row, and took issue with the suggestion that Wolves’ new Portuguese coach has succeeded in one week where he has struggled in two months at United.