Ruben Amorim has said Bruno Fernandes will continue as Manchester United’s penalty taker despite missing two of the three awarded the team this season.

Fernandes missed from the spot in the 1-1 draw at Fulham and the 3-1 defeat at Brentford, scoring in the 3-2 win over Burnley. Amorim said: “Yes, he’s the main taker. I think he has 70 penalties and he misses nine – two with me.”

The head coach chuckled as he reflected on the two missed under him. “I’m really annoyed with that,” Amorim said. “But he’s really confident. He’s training [to take] the penalties, trying to understand that people are watching the way he [tries to] score penalties. So he will be ready.”

United are at Liverpool on Sunday, having won there in the Premier League once in the past decade: a 1-0 win in 2016 via a Wayne Rooney goal. Amorim was asked whether his players were ready for a bear-pit-like atmosphere at Anfield and looked back to January’s 2-2 draw there.

“The environment is going to be loud but we are ready to play in that,” he said. “If you look at last year, sometimes we play better in that kind of...