IPSWICH, England -- For 81 seconds, it all seemed so easy for Ruben Amorim. In his first game as Manchester United head coach, Marcus Rashford, the player who has embodied the club's troubled recent past, had scored inside two minutes to make a dream start against Ipswich Town.
Then reality bit, and Amorim discovered just how big of a job he has taken on.
A game that began so brightly for the sixth man tasked with recreating Sir Alex Ferguson's glory years at United ended with Amorim angrily ordering Joshua Zirkzee, the forward introduced as a second-half substitute, to get into the Ipswich penalty box and offer some attacking threat rather than saunter around while the game passed him by.