Every word: Amorim's press conference

Bobby De Cordova-Reid opened the scoring for the visitors when he headed in a blocked Wilfred Ndidi shot on the cusp of half-time.

Alejandro Garnacho's half-time introduction injected a new lease of life into United's attack, playing a vital role in Joshua Zirkzee's equaliser, before Harry Maguire emerged at the back post in stoppage time to nod home a Bruno Fernandes free-kick in front of the Stretford End.

Following the dramatic cup encounter, Ruben Amorim spoke to the media assembled at Old Trafford to discuss some of the game's key talking points.

Keep scrolling to read everything he had to say...

You spoke previously, before this match, about the fact that there's going to be storms, and the fact that United are going to have to go through suffering. It was amazing for the team to get a last-minute winner, but for the United fans who maybe weren’t so happy with the performance, what’s the comfort or something that they can hold onto, to know that the club and the team are still going in the right direction, despite what may be deemed on the pitch as sub-par performances?

“Today is just the feeling of the win, and the fans will go home with that feeling of when they perform really well, they help us a lot to change the game. The rest is hard to point to something to give them a little bit [of] confidence. Just the spirit in the second half, more energy, more second balls, small things. But the rest, we have a lot to improve. So we already knew that. But yeah, we need to do better."

Garnacho really changed the game. How close was he to leaving in the window, and how happy are you to have him?

“That is not important. We want players like Garnacho, who is really important. He changed the game today, with the runs [in] behind. Of course, you can feel it, that the opponent was getting tired adjusting with a lot of difficulties, not in the first half, but in the second half to stop Garnacho in the one-against-one, so we are very happy with him. And I think he helped a lot to change the game today.”

On Patrick Dorgu’s debut, what did you make of it? And can you talk us through the thinking of playing him on the right and not the left?

“No, he played a lot of times in Lecce on the right. That is one of the characteristics that we pay attention to a lot, to have a player like him. He was a little bit anxious in the first touch with the ball. It's a different league for him, different speed of the game, but he did well. He has space, he has strength, he’s going to improve a lot. And we, as a team, we need to play better to help these new guys to perform at the right level. But the position, and you can can see in Wyscout that he’s played in both sides.”

Rasmus [Hojlund] seemed quite frustrated at various times today with not getting passes and not getting service, and I think you and Rasmus had what seemed like quite an animated conversation at one point in the second half. Where is that frustration from him coming from, it just a fact that the theme of clearly struggling to get him involved in the game as much as you would like?

“I think it's a good thing. I will not say one word bad about this type of behaviour. He needs to understand that sometimes he has to do a job without touching the ball. He cannot get so frustrated because in the next play, maybe he will have a situation near the goal. So he has to be calm. But this is a character, and if you know so many players from that kind of character that he has from that country, they always want more. They want to score, they feel the critics. So, it's a good thing, but he will improve. And a striker needs a very good team to deliver very good balls for him, and we are not helping our strikers at moment.”

A couple of months ago you weren’t so happy with Alejandro. You dropped him for the derby along with Marcus [Rashford]. How impressed have you been with how he’s responded to that, and what did he do to win you over?

“He doesn't need a big change. We are talking about like the standards. It's just to train well, to receive the information, to understand that we want to help them. We want to play in the different system. But it's not complicated. So, he changed everything. He trains really well. He stayed on the bench like five games in a row. Every time he came on the pitch, it was a different guy, receiving the information and playing. So it’s simple things, it’s not a big thing. It's just, I’m really happy and you can see it. I think he’s improving.”

Throughout the first half, you were seen giving instructions to Dorgu, particularly if you wanted him to defend wide or narrow. Did that also play into you playing him on the right-hand side, so you could be a lot closer to him throughout the game?

 “No, it was not that. I was giving a lot of information because if you see, building up, sometimes the left defender, the full-back, is the [one] more building up. So we make one pressure to one side, and then they change completely for this game. And we have to manage to change everything. So I was trying to help Dorgu to manage the game. And he has like three training [sessions], so it was really hard for him. But it was not like that, [he] helped us a lot. The communication [is] there, but it was not that idea."

Could we see more of Dorgu on the right-hand side?

 “Yes. Again, if you’re going to see the history of Dorgu in the last team, he played a lot of games also on the right. And we have to have wingers that can play both sides, like [Diogo] Dalot. So I think it's a really good, important thing, because sometimes you need a left-footer on the right side to come inside and to connect in the different way. And sometimes you need the right-footed [player] to connect and to cross more balls, so it's like that."

Harry Maguire looked to be in an offside position before he scored the goal. There's no VAR. I mean, you obviously got a break, a bit of luck with that, but is it what you need in in this moment, a bit of luck like that?

 “I think so, yes. We need a lot of things that have nothing to do with luck. [It] has to do with quality of the work. We need to [look at] every detail of the game. Our energy, my work with them has to be so much better. But sometimes, we need a little bit [of] luck. And today we have [got it]. It's not luck because with VAR, [it] was not a goal. And I think it's important to have because it's fair for the game. It’s really hard to lose one game in the last minute with an offside play. But we need [it] and sometimes we deserve a little bit [of] luck."