{"id":626050,"date":"2026-09-24T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:06:14","slug":"fantastic-attack-man-utd-transfer-surgery-has-worked-but-more-required-as-michael-owen-assesses-the-tactical-approach-of-michael-carrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626050\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fantastic attack\u2019 – Man Utd transfer \u2018surgery\u2019 has worked but more required as Michael Owen assesses the tactical approach of Michael Carrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will that system serve United well in the long run? When that question was put to Owen, the title-winning former Red Devils striker – who was speaking in association with HelloMillions (Sweepstakes Casino)<\/a> – told GOAL: \u201cIt can work, it has worked in the past. Pep Guardiola won a league without hardly playing a centre-forward. There’s other teams that have done it as well in Spain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can work and I do think, when you look at it on paper, it’s a fantastic attack. I really do like that and I think they’ve invested heavily in it. They didn’t score a goal against City, but the way they attacked against Ipswich, scored five goals – I know it’s not a Manchester City defence they were up against versus Ipswich, but I do think that their attack is not necessarily their main problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can have off days, but I actually quite like the make-up of that. I think there’s some good players and I think there’s some game-changers on the bench as well and I think they’ve done the surgery to that area of the pitch a little bit of time ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent surgery seems to be focused on midfield and I would have thought the next bit is looking at their defence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will that system serve United well in the long run? When that question was put to Owen, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[65661,41701,6947,85,46,139703,282931,21332,3157,2619,105],"class_list":["post-626050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-b-mbeumo","tag-b-sesko","tag-exclusive","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-m-carrick","tag-m-cunha","tag-m-rashford","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}