Ruben Amorim is working on Manchester United's three weaknesses with new warm-up drills

Jose Mourinho provided his own epitaph after his final match in charge of Tottenham: "Different coach, same players." That succinct summation applied to Manchester United under Ruben Amorim at Portman Road.

Eduardo Rosalino, one of Amorim's backroom staff members, joined the analysts in the press box for a tactical vantage point and must have been startled by some of the counterintuitive chaos he witnessed. At ground level, Amorim was often on his haunches for a worm's eye view. He admitted afterwards he "felt a little bit anxious".

Dan Ashworth, the United sporting director, arrived in one of Ineos's chauffeured vehicles. It was less than three months ago he opined that he "liked" the squad. He may have revised that assessment.

United are transitioning to a new formation and players have new instructions. It was still staggering to see Amorim have to tell players where to position themselves without the ball and essentially instigate their back-tracking.

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The familiar sight of a United player limply ceding possession before a sluggish collective response was on show at Ipswich. Amorim clapped his hands to command the players to sprint. With full-time looming, he chastised them for failing to press.

He will have to get used to that. United have been inept at pressing since Sir Alex Ferguson's final years, with it most glaringly exposed in the two Champions League final surrenders to Barcelona. David Moyes wanted to make United "run more".

At Ipswich, United players ran a combined 102km, the second-lowest distance they have clocked up in a match this season.