'Amorim takes a lot of the pressure from us'

After a standout showing at Anfield, Senne Lammens credits coach for his tactical nous - and shielding the team

- David Hytner

There was a moment as Senne Lammens reflected on Manchester United’s 2-1 win at Liverpool on Sunday and his role in it when he seemed to want to shrug it off as just another game.

It is a sentiment that those who have closely followed his progress would recognise. The 23-year-old goalkeeper, who moved to United from Royal Antwerp in September, is all about stability and humility.

It was Lammens’s second appearance for United and his second victory after the 2-0 win against Sunderland at Old Trafford at the start of the month. What was all the fuss about? Then Lammens seemed to catch himself. “I just try to prepare the same way, treat it like any other game but, of course, you have to be realistic - it’s not like any other game,” he said.

The pressure on United finally to win back-to-back league matches under Ruben Amorim; the intense heat on the manager himself; the spotlight on the goalkeeper position after all that has happened with André Onana and, to a lesser extent, Altay Bayindir. It all went into the mix. And that was before people considered that it was the most high-profile game of Lammens’s career, in which he has played regularly for a single season - last time out at Antwerp.