Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has warned fans to expect a roller-coaster ride to the end of the season and that there are no quick fixes to the team’s problems.

United came from behind to defeat bottom side Southampton 3-1 in the Premier League in midweek but remain in 12th place ahead of Sunday’s home clash against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Amorim, who joined in November from Sporting Lisbon following the sacking of Erik ten Hag, admitted it will not be easy to the end of the campaign.

“I think it’s going to be hard until the end of the season. It’s going to be a little bit of that rollercoaster,” Amorim said.

“It’s harder to prepare for the game when we lose. When we win, we can manage everything, expectations, a bad mood for some players. So we will prepare for the game in the same ways. I am just focused on the next game.

Amorim was at least pleased with an improved attacking display against Southampton after the side failed to score in three of their previous five games.

“I think this is something that you can see from the past and we were, in the past, a team of transition. And we still are,” he added. “You can feel it, to create chances in the final third, we struggle. We struggle a lot… so it is something that we have to change.

“To change, we need training. So to have time to change, we also need to win games and we have tried to do that.”