Ruben Amorim during Manchester United's match away at Wolves. Ruben Amorim during Manchester United's match away at Wolves.

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim admitted Bruno Fernandes’ sending off was a huge contributing factor to their 2-0 loss to Wolves on Boxing Day. (More Football News)

Amorim suffered a fifth defeat in seven games as second half goals from Matheus Cunha and substitute Hwang Hee-Chan maintained Vitor Pereira's winning start. 

United’s job was made a lot harder when Fernandes was given his marching orders after being given a second yellow card for a challenge on Nelson Semedo two minutes after the restart. 

Fernandes is the first United player to be sent off three times in a season in all competitions since Nemanja Vidic in 2008-09 (also three). 

His dismissal came at a time when the game was goalless at Molineux, and Amorim believes that his side were unable to recover from that setback.

"There won't be a vacuum. Someone will come in my place, for sure. All the sports are like that. Sachin Tendulkar was there and now there is Virat Kohli, and someone will take his place tomorrow. So, Sreejesh was there yesterday, but someone else will come and take his place tomorrow," the goalkeeping stalwart told PTI in an interview at the India House in Paris.

"The sending off was really hard for us", Amorim told Amazon Prime.

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"It's so tough to win games in this league with 11 men. With 10 men, it's more difficult. We have to focus on that."

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