Michael Carrick oversaw the first home loss of this tenure as Manchester United boss as Leeds United won a league fixture at Old Trafford for the first time in nearly 50 years.
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Leeds last won away to Man United in 1981, and this was a stunning start for Carrick’s men as they allowed a first-half brace to Noah Okafor.
Carrick left Bryan Mbeumo and Diogo Dalot out of the Starting XI and was also without Harry Maguire, and a Lisandro Martinez red card before the hour mark complicated the home fans’ hopes of a comeback (though they would get a goal from Casemiro to make things interesting for the final half-hour).
We’ll share all of Michael Carrick’s words as soon as he speaks from Old Trafford.
Bruno Fernandes reaction
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**Thoughts on the game?** “We knew they wanted to press us 1v1. We had to be better on the first ball and even better on the second. We weren’t great. We gave too much space away and went 2-nil down.
**On the long break between games:** “It is what it is. We had off for the FA Cup so we have ourselves to blame to be out of the game for so long. We have to prepare ourselves in the best way. We did it.
**On Lisandro Martinez’s red card:** “I’m not talking about the referee. If I talk about him, I’m going to get in very big trouble because the rules are very different and applied different for everyone.
**How does this match affect your team?** “It doesn’t change anything we want to achieve. Our aim is to stay in the top four. It’s all by our side. If we win games we’ll be in the position we want to be at the end of the season.”
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