LONDON, Oct. 16 -- With his team's season teetering on a knife's edge, Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim enters a make-or-break period of four crucial fixtures that could determine the club's trajectory, beginning with a high-stakes clash against Liverpool at Anfield this weekend.

Amorim's side produced one of the most solid performances of his tenure by beating Sunderland 2-0 immediately before the international break, a result that eased the mounting pressure on the Portuguese head coach following a woeful defeat at Brentford the week before, according to BBC.

Since then, minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has publicly backed Amorim, framing the rebuild as a three-year project and reminding fans of the time it took even Sir Alex Fe...