Sesko got his toe to Bryan Mbeumo\u2019s cross six minutes into stoppage time and rifled it into the top corner to deny Carrick\u2019s old club West Ham a vital victory in the relegation battle.<\/p>\n
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 Fulham.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always the balance. The boys who have played have done fantastically well,\u201d said Carrick.<\/p>\n
\u201cBen\u2019s doing a lot of work, he\u2019s in a good place and ready to kick on. Certainly when he came on the pitch he made a big difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an unbelievable finish from the angle to generate that, to get it on target, to finish it \u2013 it\u2019s some goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s capable of that, Ben. He\u2019s done it all the time. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s just suddenly burst on the scene. He\u2019s been doing it, he\u2019s proven that he can score goals as well. He\u2019s been doing it in training for us as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising, to be honest. I think it\u2019s what he does, it\u2019s what he\u2019s good at. The last one would have done him the world of good.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight, a little bit different with the emotion of the game, but certainly important and a big moment for him and us.\u201d<\/p>\n
United were bidding for a fifth straight Premier League victory under Carrick but were grateful for a point after Tomas Soucek put West Ham in front early in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cMixed feelings,\u201d added Carrick. \u201cWe know we weren\u2019t at our best and we can credit West Ham with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinishing with a late goal when we\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was heartbreak for West Ham, who had they clung on would have moved level with 17th-placed Nottingham Forest less than a month after being seven points adrift.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are disappointed of course, the players and the fans,\u201d said boss Nuno Espirito Santo. \u201cWe competed really well and were able to contain a very good team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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
\u201cWe have to bounce back from these disappointments. We have to keep going. There is no other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
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":"Sesko got his toe to Bryan Mbeumo\u2019s cross six minutes into stoppage time and rifled it into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,917,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-292313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}