Manchester United were booed off after defeat to Brighton on Wednesday and the Stretford End were particularly critical.
Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick and his players faced abuse from the Stretford End on Wednesday
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Michael Carrick quashed the idea he needed to show more emotion after shrugging off an offensive chant aimed at him and his players following Manchester United's defeat to Brighton in midweek.
Carrick and his players were met with chants of 'what the f**king hell was that?' from the Stretford End after surrendering a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 to Brighton at Old Trafford.
It followed boos at the final whistle after United's third defeat in six games this season but Carrick insisted the chant didn't affect him and that his focus remained on how to drag his side out of a rut at the start of the season.
"We don't like losing football matches, so it's not that I don't feel the emotion of losing football matches, but it doesn't affect how I think about what we need to do next. I think that's the most important thing," said Carrick.
The mention of emotion led to a question as to whether the 45-year-old, who has maintained a calm and composed demeanour throughout his Old Trafford tenure, needed to show more of it as head coach of the club.
"I need to show more emotion? In what way?" asked Carrick. When told fans might want to see him show more emotion, he again asked: "In what way? I'm asking, how, what do you want me to show?"
Carrick believes his balanced approach is the way forward and tried to put United's disappointing start to the season into context, after defeats to Hull, Manchester City and Brighton.
"It's not a catastrophe or a disaster, it's not the end of the world. We're not in a place where we've gone on an awful long run of horrific results," he said.
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"We've lost a couple of games recently, and we feel like we've started and we've been in all the games that we've played, if not been the better team at the start of games, so it's not like we're having a real struggle all the time.
"We've done a lot of good things in them to put ourselves in really good positions in the games that we've been in. So the belief certainly comes from that, of the good things that we've done that gets totally lost in some ways in the surrounding feeling, but it doesn't get lost by us."