Dalot blames Man United dressing room for disastrous season
Man Utd will end the season without the salvation of a trophy after they were beaten in the Europa League final in Bilbao by Tottenham.
Diogo Dalot has backed Ruben Amorim as "100% the right man" to lead Manchester United forward and blamed the players for the club's worst season in 51 years.
United saw the chance to salvage something from a dismal campaign end with defeat in the Europa League final in Bilbao, and they go into the final weekend of the Premier League season in danger of finishing 17th, propped up only by the three relegated sides.
The defeat to Tottenham at San Mames will invite fresh speculation on the future of Amorim, who has offered to walk away without compensation if the club feel he is no longer the right man for the job.
But his players were queuing up to back him last night, and Dalot instead turned the focus onto the dressing room and suggested the players weren't demanding enough from each other and had let standards slip.
"I think the demands from each other, from ourselves, have to be a lot higher," he said. "Ultimately, what you do every day will determine if you win things in the long term. So that is the standard of this club.
"And if we don't do that every single day, it's going to be really hard for you to put this club back on top. We are going into a very difficult time after this season.
Article continues below"I know that everybody's difficult to find positives. You have nothing to grab after the season that we had. But like I said, this time that we're going to be away, we have to fight really hard to start the season well and put this club back where it belongs."
Amorim will look to begin an overhaul of the United squad this summer, although his transfer kitty will be decimated by the lack of European football, with defeat to Tottenham closing an avenue to the Champions League and a £100m boost to the coffers.
But the current squad is packed with internationals and multi-million-pound signings. The starting XI in the Europa League final cost £539million to assemble, and they went down with a whimper in what was the biggest game of their season. Dalot is at a loss to explain why they have underperformed.
"That's the answer that we need to find," he said. "Results will determine a lot of things in football, as you know. When you don't win games, you always tend to go towards more negativity than positivity.
"The reality is that this season we didn't get the results that we wanted. Sometimes we deserved, sometimes pretty much a lot of times we didn't. I think that's the consistency we need to find. We need to find a way to win games, and that winning mentality.
"If we keep this rollercoaster of results, of emotions, of standards, it will be really hard. But like I said, this club will never die in my opinion, so if we want to be a part of the team that is going to put Man United back on top, we need to do much, much better."
One decision Dalot doesn't want to see taken concerns Amorim. The wing-back is convinced his countryman is the right coach to take United forward despite losing 16 of his 41 games in charge and winning just 15, including only six in the Premier League.
"I'm 100% sure that he's the right man for us because I see it every day, the standards that he has, what he demands from us, the view that he has for the club, for the players, for the coaching staff," said Dalot.
Article continues below"A lot of changes are happening at the same time, but ultimately it's going to be what we do on the pitch. We have to take responsibility from that. Nobody apart from us is going to the pitch and try to get results.
"So this season it's been obviously a way off how this club should be and what this club deserves. So we have to take responsibility on that and take this time that we're going to be away to think about what we should do better and as soon as the season starts, we need to change things."
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PARIS (AP) — For quite some time, there's usually been a sense of certainty at the French Open.
That was particularly so on the men's side, with Rafael Nadal ruling over the red clay of Roland-Garros the way no one has dominated any tournament in tennis history. He would go there, he would win nearly every match he played — how's 112-4 for a career record? — and he would head home with another trophy, 14 in all.
Simultaneously simple and spectacular. So, too, albeit over a much shorter span, is Iga Swiatek's recent control over the women's event, claiming four of five championships, including the past three.
And now? As play begins Sunday, things are less clear, and not just because the 38-year-old Nadal is no longer competing and will be honored that day at Court Philippe-Chatrier. The owner of 22 Grand Slam titles retired last season, playing for the final time at the Davis Cup. His final French Open ended with a loss to Alexander Zverev last May and his final Roland-Garros appearance ended with an exit in singles against Novak Djokovic at the Summer Olympics, followed by an exit in doubles alongside Carlos Alcaraz.
There could be some new champions at the French Open
“Will it be very interesting? I think so,” said Grigor Dimitrov, a quarterfinalist at last year’s French Open and previously a semifinalist at the other majors. “Could we see potentially some different winners and different results? Absolutely.”
He was speaking specifically about the men's bracket. But he could have been talking about the women, too.
“There’s ... 20 different people that you wouldn’t be surprised if they end up winning the tournament,” said Madison Keys, the American whose first Slam trophy arrived at the Australian Open in January. “Part of it is because we’ve kind of lost some of our legends, obviously. Like, there’s no longer Serena Williams in every draw, where you just assume she’s going to win.
Swiatek, 23, did hold that status for a while but she's been through a trying spell since last year's triumph in Paris. Not only hasn't she lifted a trophy since then, but she hasn't reached a final — and even clay presents problems. She was eliminated by Danielle Collins in her second match at the Italian Open, after a 6-1, 6-1 loss to 2023 U.S. Open winner Coco Gauff at the Madrid Open, where she also dropped a 6-0 set to Keys.
And that's to say nothing of the off-court matter of a doping case in which Swiatek essentially was cleared but did serve an oddly timed suspension.
Doping cases involving Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner
Ah, yes, doping. It's a big topic in tennis lately, in large part because of what happened with former No. 1 Swiatek — she's now down to No. 5, behind Aryna Sabalenka, Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini — and men's No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who served his own, much-scrutinized, three-month ban.
The deal he worked out with the World Anti-Doping Agency after it appealed the 23-year-old Italian's original exoneration allowed Sinner to play at the Australian Open, where he earned his third title in the past five majors, then return to competition at the Italian Open, where he was the runner-up to Alcaraz.
So Sinner is in the mix at the French Open, but a notch below defending champion Alcaraz, who dealt with muscle issues in both legs recently before looking in Rome like he is back to his best. Still, he's not a lock the way Nadal was, while three-time major finalist Alexander Zverev is as inconsistent as possible lately, and 24-time Slam champ Djokovic ended a three-match losing streak this week at the Geneva Open tune-up event.
No Nadal in Paris, and a 'new reality' for Djokovic
“Kind of new reality for me, I have to say. You know, trying to win a match or two, not really thinking about getting far in the tournament. It’s a completely different feeling from what I had in 20-plus years of professional tennis, so it’s kind of a challenge for me, mentally, to really face these kind of sensations on the court, going out early now, regularly,” Djokovic said after an opening exit in Madrid.
“But that’s, I guess, the circle of life and the career. Eventually, it was going to happen. ... Grand Slams is where I really want to play the best tennis,” he added. “I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do that in Roland-Garros, but I’ll do my best.”
For a change, no one can be sure what's to come in Paris.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich
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 — For quite some time, there's usually been a sense of certainty at the French Open.
That was particularly so on the men's side, with Rafael Nadal ruling over the red clay of Roland-Garros the way no one has dominated any tournament in tennis history. He would go there, he would win nearly every match he played — how's 112-4 for a career record? — and he would head home with another trophy, 14 in all.
Simultaneously simple and spectacular. So, too, albeit over a much shorter span, is Iga Swiatek's recent control over the women's event, claiming four of five championships, including the past three.
And now? As play begins Sunday, things are less clear, and not just because the 38-year-old Nadal is no longer competing and will be honored that day at Court Philippe-Chatrier. The owner of 22 Grand Slam titles retired last season, playing for the final time at the Davis Cup. His final French Open ended with a loss to Alexander Zverev last May and his final Roland-Garros appearance ended with an exit in singles against Novak Djokovic at the Summer Olympics, followed by an exit in doubles alongside Carlos Alcaraz.
There could be some new champions at the French Open
“Will it be very interesting? I think so,” said Grigor Dimitrov, a quarterfinalist at last year’s French Open and previously a semifinalist at the other majors. “Could we see potentially some different winners and different results? Absolutely.”
He was speaking specifically about the men's bracket. But he could have been talking about the women, too.
“There’s ... 20 different people that you wouldn’t be surprised if they end up winning the tournament,” said Madison Keys, the American whose first Slam trophy arrived at the Australian Open in January. “Part of it is because we’ve kind of lost some of our legends, obviously. Like, there’s no longer Serena Williams in every draw, where you just assume she’s going to win.
Swiatek, 23, did hold that status for a while but she's been through a trying spell since last year's triumph in Paris. Not only hasn't she lifted a trophy since then, but she hasn't reached a final — and even clay presents problems. She was eliminated by Danielle Collins in her second match at the Italian Open, after a 6-1, 6-1 loss to 2023 U.S. Open winner Coco Gauff at the Madrid Open, where she also dropped a 6-0 set to Keys.
And that's to say nothing of the off-court matter of a doping case in which Swiatek essentially was cleared but did serve an oddly timed suspension.
Doping cases involving Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner
Ah, yes, doping. It's a big topic in tennis lately, in large part because of what happened with former No. 1 Swiatek — she's now down to No. 5, behind Aryna Sabalenka, Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini — and men's No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who served his own, much-scrutinized, three-month ban.
The deal he worked out with the World Anti-Doping Agency after it appealed the 23-year-old Italian's original exoneration allowed Sinner to play at the Australian Open, where he earned his third title in the past five majors, then return to competition at the Italian Open, where he was the runner-up to Alcaraz.
So Sinner is in the mix at the French Open, but a notch below defending champion Alcaraz, who dealt with muscle issues in both legs recently before looking in Rome like he is back to his best. Still, he's not a lock the way Nadal was, while three-time major finalist Alexander Zverev is as inconsistent as possible lately, and 24-time Slam champ Djokovic ended a three-match losing streak this week at the Geneva Open tune-up event.
No Nadal in Paris, and a 'new reality' for Djokovic
“Kind of new reality for me, I have to say. You know, trying to win a match or two, not really thinking about getting far in the tournament. It’s a completely different feeling from what I had in 20-plus years of professional tennis, so it’s kind of a challenge for me, mentally, to really face these kind of sensations on the court, going out early now, regularly,” Djokovic said after an opening exit in Madrid.
“But that’s, I guess, the circle of life and the career. Eventually, it was going to happen. ... Grand Slams is where I really want to play the best tennis,” he added. “I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do that in Roland-Garros, but I’ll do my best.”
For a change, no one can be sure what's to come in Paris.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich %23genevaopen) |
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