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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on the prospect of winning the Europa League after losing the 2013-14 final as a player with Benfica: "The meaning is different. As a player, you want to play and enjoy. But when you are manager, you have to win it. Losing the final will hurt even more, especially in this kind of season. So we have to win it.

"For that we need to focus on the semi-final. It's different between player and manager."

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Ruben Amorim and Alejandro Garnacho fairly rattled through that news conference, which was as insightful as it was bright and breezy.

They have finished talking now.

We have a few quotes still to bring you then will provide a summary with the top lines from the news conference, so please bear with us.

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More from Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on Europa League semi-final second leg against Athletic Bilbao: "I watched the first 30 minutes [of the first leg] a lot of time and then forgot the rest. Because you cannot prepare for a game watching 11 against 10.

"I felt [Bilbao] were really intense in the first 30 minutes but most of the opportunities they had were a little bit our fault. We showed to the players that sometimes we might have 30 minutes with a lot of problems and tried to describe why we had so many problems in the first half hour."

On avoiding complacency: "If you look at our team, you cannot say what is going to happen today.

"There are some teams in any league that can understand that a game is going to be like this and they can control the narrative. We cannot do that. So we need to face the game as one more game.

"I think we need to score to go to the next round. That is clearly how we are going to face the game.

"We will also have to suffer a little bit to go to the final and be better in the small details."

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Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho was asked his feelings on Ruben Amorim calling the Man Utd squad one of the worst in history: "We know we are not doing a great job in the Premier League but the manager has said before, we follow the rules and for us, it is a final.

"If we win the Europa League we will be in the Champions League and we can face the next season with a better mentality."

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on captain Bruno Fernandes being linked with a move to Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal: "It's easy to understand [his importance] not just because of the numbers but the way he plays and the things he has done in his five years here.

"He is a top player and we need top players. He is a leader. He is the captain. So he is really important.

"It's normal that there are a lot of clubs who want a player like Bruno or [Alejandro] Garnacho, but we want to keep our best players. And Bruno is clearly one of the top players in the world.

"So our idea does not change. We clearly want Bruno here."

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Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho on being one goal away from matching the record Cristiano Ronaldo had at the club when he was 21: "I'm not focusing on the numbers. When Cristiano played here, it was different football and different types of games.

"I just try to help the team and try to win games. We are training really hard, me and all the strikers in the team. I think we are improving and we are trying to do better."

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Ruben Amorim doubled down on his previous comments that this would end up being the worst top-flight season in Manchester United's history, in terms of results, in the last 50 years.

But he said they have the chance to finish this "worst season" with a European title.

More to follow.

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Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho on whether anything has changed for him in recent weeks: "We know we need to work hard to even be involved in the squad. I just have to train well every day and make myself available for games."

Garnacho also deflected a question about how the dressing room feels with regard to Ruben Amorim's 'brutal' approach: "It's not easy in the middle of the season when you change a manager and all of the staff but in my mind, it is always to try and work hard every day and try to show the manager that I need to play. That's the only thing I have to do."

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim speaking before facing Athletic Bilbao: "If you look at our season, anything is possible. We have to understand that.

"One goal can change everything - the momentum of the game. One sending off can. You saw it one week ago. We are prepared to fight to win the game and not think about the result.

"Of course, that matters in the way we are going to do the things, but we are only thinking about winning the game tomorrow."

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim, speaking before the Europa League semi-final second leg against Athletic Bilbao, has confirmed that Matthijs de Ligt will miss the game tomorrow with injury.

"It is not a big issue, so that is a good thing," Amorim said.

"But he cannot play tomorrow and on Sunday [against West Ham]. But then we will check day by day and see."

Amorim also confirms that Toby Collyer and Ayden Heaven are unavailable for the return leg at Old Trafford.

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said that most of the opportunities Athletic Bilbao had to score in the opening stages of the first leg were gifted to them.

He said he has talked through those mistakes with his players and shown them how to guard against a repeat at Old Trafford.

More to follow.

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has kicked off his news conference with some team news, the Matthijs de Ligt injury is potentially not as serious as first thought, but he will not play on Thursday or this weekend.

He also warned that, considering the rollercoaster season they have had, anything can happen against Athletic Bilbao in the second leg and one goal could change everything.

More to follow.

If you didn't believe Simon Stone, here is the proof...the sun can shine in Manchester.

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

It's been a lovely day in Manchester.

The mood at Manchester United's Carrington training ground this morning was good.

In fairness, it should be.

United are 3-0 up from the first leg of their semi-final with Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish side are travelling to England without three of their key players in Nico and Inaki Williams and top scorer Oihan Sancet.

It is surely impossible for Ruben Amorim's squad to mess this up.

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Here's a reminder that Ruben Amorim and Alejandro Garnacho will be speaking in Manchester United's news conference soon.

And you can watch and listen live by using the play icon at the top of this page.

They are expected any time after 13:15 BST.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

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Christian Eriksen was an unexpected absentee from Manchester United's training session this morning.

However, United officials are stressing the veteran Danish midfielder will be available for tomorrow night's Europa League semi-final with Athletic Bilbao.

The same cannot be said of Matthijs de Ligt, who was injured during the first-half of Sunday's defeat at Brentford.

The expectation is De Ligt will miss the remainder of the season but head coach Ruben Amorim is yet to update on the full extent of the problem.