Ruben Amorim believes he is seeing signs of improvement at Manchester United.

Amorim has regularly rotated his starting XI since being appointed United head coach and he has made six changes to face Bournemouth on Sunday.

Andre Onana, Harry Maguire, Tyrell Malacia, Kobbie Mainoo, Amad and Joshua Zirkzee will all start against Bournemouth, who claimed a 3-0 win at Old Trafford last season.

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United must deliver a significantly better performance than they did against the Cherries at Old Trafford last term and Amorim will be desperate to see his side return to winning ways after crashing out of the Carabao Cup quarter-finals against Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday night.

Amorim spoke to MUTV ahead of kick-off and said: "You can see for two games we have an injury before half-time, so we have to manage the players because there are a lot of games.

"We had two days to rest from a tough match. Harry [Maguire] returned and we saved him in the last game because he is coming back from an injury and didn't do 90 minutes for a long time.

"Now he is returning to the team, Onana returns, Ty [Malacia] is fresh, Josh [Zirkzee] is fresh, Kobbie [Mainoo] is fresh, so we try to win the game and they know what to do.

"He [Zirkzee] will play more as a No.9 today but we need fresh legs. Rasmus [Hojlund] played the last two games and I could see during training and in the games for sure that Josh was really, really good in the end of the last match, so I want to give this confidence to the players.

"If you perform, you will get the opportunity, especially if we have three games in six days."

Amorim added on the team's progress: "I think in the last game I felt a real improvement. I think for the first time I could see a real improvement. We were improving a little bit but in the last game I didn't enjoy the result but we have to maintain the consistency in the performance.

"Today, we are going to play at home and we're going to have to be very smart against this team. There will be a lot of long balls, second balls and speed in the transitions. 60 per cent of their goals is coming from winning the ball in our half so we have to be smart.

"We know the fans want us to control the game and we control the game with the ball and without the ball, so today we have to be really smart with this opponent."

United are still 13th in the league and a win against Bournemouth will lift them into the top half