{"id":653301,"date":"2026-10-22T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653301\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:38:13","slug":"angry-carrick-on-the-brink-as-fernandes-hits-out-at-manchester-united-tactics-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653301\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Angry\u2019 Carrick on the brink as Fernandes hits out at Manchester United tactics | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick\u2019s future as Manchester United<\/a> manager is in the balance after a humiliating 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Before Bournemouth\u2019s visit to Old Trafford on Sunday his future may be discussed by Jason Wilcox, the director of football, Omar Berrada, the chief executive, and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner who controls sporting policy.<\/p>\n

On a torrid night an \u201cangry\u201d \u00adCarrick insisted afterwards that he had not given his position any thought and was forced to defend himself against Bruno Fernandes after his captain questioned the manager\u2019s tactics of not pressing against Cesc F\u00e0bregas\u2019s team. Carrick also criticised his side for not running. The defeat by Como in the third Champions League group game leaves United with only two wins all season from 11 games. \u00adCarrick\u2019s side are in 13th place in the Premier League and were eliminated from the Carabao Cup<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old was asked if he fears for his job. \u201cListen, I\u2019ve not given my own position any thought,\u201d he said. \u201c[My thoughts are] for the supporters \u2013 I was one of them watching that and I wasn\u2019t happy at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrick was then asked if he could walk away following the latest defeat in Europe. \u201cNo. It\u2019s not about me right now and my feelings in that regard,\u201d the manager said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of as a team and as a football club, what we want to look like, what we should look like. And as I said, the results can come and go at times, but you got to do it in a certain way. And that wasn\u2019t it.\u201d<\/p>\n

700 United sup\u00adporters travelled. At the end around 200 remained and Carrick went to \u00adapologise to them, noticeably \u00adignoring his players. After United conceded Nico Paz\u2019s second-minute goal, Carrick\u2019s men were unable to mount any resistance. By 57\u00a0minutes Como<\/a> led 3-0, due to Tasos Douvikas\u2019s strike and Paz\u2019s second, before Jacobo Ram\u00f3n completed the scoring for the Italian side on 76 minutes. Joshua Zirkzee netted in added time for the visitors.<\/p>\n

Fernandes openly challenged \u00adCarrick\u2019s strategy during the match. \u201cIt\u2019s a decision from the staff to not press man-to-man and sometimes leave space behind and try to get the ball, wait for them, but sometimes when you give space to these teams they get confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The captain was asked if Carrick\u2019s tactics were wrong. \u201cThat\u2019s on the manager and staff to see, not me,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes you have to be more brave under pressure, take the risk of pressing high and making them uncomfortable. As you saw with them, the centre-back was coming to mark me in my own half. We need to do that as a team but we were unable to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernandes\u2019s criticism was put to his manager after the match. \u201cWe actually half-pressed man-to-man the second half and then conceded a goal from that,\u201d Carrick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever system you play, whatever tactics you play, if you don\u2019t run, and you don\u2019t run forward, and you don\u2019t run back, you ain\u2019t going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carrick was asked how he can raise the mood before Bournemouth\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m bitterly disappointed, I\u2019m frustrated; more than frustrated, I\u2019m really angry. But you\u2019ve got to move on. You got to deal with what\u2019s next and see what that looks like.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment in time, there\u2019s a lot to do before that next game to get the team ready because that was a difficult night for everyone. I have to apologise to the supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno Fernandes and his United teammates were second-best throughout. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick\u2019s future as Manchester United manager is in the balance after a humiliating 4-1 Champions League defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-653301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653301","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=653301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}