{"id":467688,"date":"2026-02-11T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:55:09","slug":"carrick-hails-unbelievable-sesko-goal-to-earn-man-united-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467688\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrick hails &#8216;unbelievable&#8217; Sesko goal to earn Man United draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 10, 2026, 06:49 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Michael Carrick hailed super-sub <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/289155\/benjamin-sesko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Sesko<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;unbelievable finish&#8221; after the striker&#8217;s amazing last-gasp volley snatched <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/740855\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1 draw<\/a> at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"28c48827-3a74-9af3-21b2-f324cdb1fc01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sesko got his toe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/271170\/bryan-mbeumo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>&#8216;s cross six minutes into stoppage time and rifled it into the top corner to deny Carrick&#8217;s old club West Ham a vital victory in the relegation battle.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time the Slovenian, yet to start a match under interim boss Carrick, has climbed off the bench to score late on after his winner against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"14acbd22-f709-1525-c5ab-1cb3ec8d1696\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always the balance. The boys who have played have done fantastically well,&#8221; said Carrick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ben&#8217;s doing a lot of work, he&#8217;s in a good place and ready to kick on. Certainly when he came on the pitch he made a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an unbelievable finish from the angle to generate that, to get it on target, to finish it &#8212; it&#8217;s some goal.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Benjamin Sesko celebrates his goal to earn Manchester United a draw against West Ham.\u00a0Ian Kington \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s capable of that, Ben. He&#8217;s done it all the time. It&#8217;s not that he&#8217;s just suddenly burst on the scene. He&#8217;s been doing it, he&#8217;s proven that he can score goals as well. He&#8217;s been doing it in training for us as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising, to be honest. I think it&#8217;s what he does, it&#8217;s what he&#8217;s good at. The last one would have done him the world of good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight, a little bit different with the emotion of the game, but certainly important and a big moment for him and us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United were bidding for a fifth straight <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> victory under Carrick but were grateful for a point after <a data-player-guid=\"8aea9fdf-cae2-5059-5a40-f9c73d40a589\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/230666\/tomas-soucek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom\u00e1s Soucek<\/a> put West Ham in front early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mixed feelings,&#8221; added Carrick. &#8220;We know we weren&#8217;t at our best and we can credit West Ham with that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finishing with a late goal when we&#8217;ve had to find one is a positive for us. In the grand scheme of things we can take a point, and dust ourselves down a bit. Four wins and a draw from these five games is a positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was heartbreak for West Ham, who had they clung on would have moved level with 17th-placed <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad9ef79b-ca27-077e-8a6f-335e0d220b27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> less than a month after being seven points adrift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are disappointed of course, the players and the fans,&#8221; said boss Nuno Espirito Santo. &#8220;We competed really well and were able to contain a very good team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way we started second half was really positive, we scored and we defended very well. Overall a very positive performance defensively, and we had situations where we could have put the game to bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to bounce back from these disappointments. We have to keep going. There is no other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frank Ilett, the United fan who gained more than two million social media followers since pledging not to get a haircut until the Red Devils secured five wins in a row, must wait for his visit to the barbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 10, 2026, 06:49 PM ET Michael Carrick hailed super-sub Benjamin Sesko&#8216;s &#8220;unbelievable finish&#8221; after the striker&#8217;s amazing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-467688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}