Michael Carrick made it six wins from seven games this afternoon as Manchester United manager, seeing us remain the only unbeaten team in the league in 2026. Despite going a goal behind in the first half, United came back to win 2-1 thanks to a penalty from Bruno Fernandes and a header from Benjamin Sesko.
Speaking to the press after the game, Carrick explained how the players managed to turn it around.
It was just a couple of little tweaks in shape, maybe a couple of ideas, some things that we tried from the start that we wanted to tweak a bit. Honestly, it wasn’t anything major really, I won’t take much credit for that. I think the boys showed as the first half progressed, that it was on its way to being better. You have got to find a way in games sometimes, we wanted to make more runs and be a little bit more aggressive with attacking their backline, which you always try to do but I thought we did it better second half, ended up getting the penalty from that. It was more, how do we react? It’s been going in our favour, it was something I’ve been waiting for, this moment, to see ‘go on then, what are we going to do about it?’ The boys responded ever so well. It was a big thing for us.
The Old Trafford crowd sing Carrick’s name every week and the manager, our former player, and he talked about how much it meant to him.
> It’s nice, obviously this place means a lot to me. To have so much positivity and everyone enjoying coming to the games and watching it, for me to have an influence on that, I’m not going to lie, of course it feels good. The players have got to take a lot of credit for that for what they put on the pitch. It’s certainly not all me. That connection with the supporters is huge, to feel that and for them to stay with us, even when there was a bit of a stuttery start, to get through the game and finish like that, it means a lot.