Michael Carrick cut a frustrated figure as his unbeaten start to life as Man Utd head coach came to a disappointing end at Newcastle.
Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick was disappointed with the way his side performed at Newcastle
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Michael Carrick said his Manchester United side must learn their lessons from a painful defeat at Newcastle after seeing his unbeaten start in the job come to an end.
United had a man advantage for the whole of the second half after Jacob Ramsey was sent off before the break, with Anthony Gordon and Casemiro both scoring in stoppage time at the end of the first half.
But they failed to press home that advantage, with Newcastle starting on top and dominating the early exchanges in the second half, which left Carrick particularly agitated on the touchline.
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United did weather the storm and seemed more likely to find a winner before William Osula's stunning 90th-minute goal and Carrick admitted defeat was a painful one to take.
Asked what was irking him at the start of the second half, he said: "Just the way the game was going. Emotions are part of the game. Certain things we wanted to do and we didn’t do it.
"It’s football, these things happen in the game, it goes away from you. There are certain things we have to do. We can be an awful lot better.
"I'm really, really disappointed with tonight, for different reasons. But we can't lose sight of the position we've got ourselves in as well.
"So, as much as I'm disappointed, and we need to learn from it, because it's been a lesson for us tonight in some ways, we can't lose sight of the bigger picture as well."