MANCHESTER, England -- If Ruben Amorim managed to get any sleep ahead of Sunderland 's visit to Old Trafford -- such is the pressure on Manchester United head coach -- then this is the type of day he would have dreamt about.

In desperate need of a result in his 50th game in charge to dampen the noise around whether he remains the right man for the job at United, everything went his way on Saturday.

His changes to the team worked, there were goals from Mason Mount and Benjamin Sesko , Sunderland missed chances and United won 2-0. The visitors even had a penalty overturned by VAR. After his complaints of being on the wrong end of fine margins this season, Amorim will perhaps feel he was due.

The first question of his post-match news conference summed it up: it was put to him that

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