The Man Utd player shone as they defeated Man City in the Premier League last weekend.
The 21-year-old was signed a year ago as a solution to United's left wing-back issues under former head coach Ruben Amorim, but has played in several positions for the club already. Dorgu featured mostly in the preferred wing-back role, but made his debut at right wing-back, and has also played as an attacking midfielder and on either wing.
Dorgu produced his best performance yet in a United shirt from the left wing role against Man City a week ago, and scored their second goal as they secured a thoroughly deserved 2-0 win. The Denmark international could return to that role when United travel to face Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon and Carrick believes there is more to come from him in attack.
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Carrick backs Dorgu for attacking role
Speaking at his pre-match press conference ahead of the Arsenal trip later today, Manchester United head coach Michael Carrick gave his verdict on Patrick Dorgu as an attacking threat in his side.
"Yeah, I think he can do both, to be honest, Pat," Carrick said. "I think he he was immense last week, you know, his work rate and the way he played the position, but the threat, constant threat and the goal was the obvious one, but I think his general play was something we were really pleased about. So, yeah, I wouldn't want to pin him down, to be honest. I think he can do both, but certainly attacking-wise in that threat, he was pretty impressive last week."
United tore Man City apart with a fearless attacking display at Old Trafford and it will be fascinating to see whether they can replicate that performance away at Arsenal this weekend. Asked if they could take the game to Mikel Arteta's side, just as they did to Pep Guardiola's, Carrick added: "I think it's just it's playing to what we feel the game needs, really. As I said, they're a good team, you know, and City's a good team and attacking-wise, they've got different ways of, I think the whole good width, they attack the box and kind of cover the width of the box very well. They ask questions with different ways of entering the box, down the sides, opposite side crosses.
"They're very well organised. They're kind of well drilled. You can see that. So I thought we defended the box when we had to, particularly well last week. We didn't have to defend the box maybe as long as maybe people expected. I think we kept the game in good places for what we wanted to, and credit to the boys for that. Every game's different. There's the element of that. It's never the same. Even if you come in half time and you've had a good performance for 45 minutes, I'm never one that likes to say same again because it's never, ever the same again. You've kind of got to build on it. So it won't be kind of copy and paste. I think there's new elements that need to come into it. We need to be ready, we need to be at our best. And if we are our best and we're there, we feel we've got a good chance."
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