Man United’s Carrick not worried about his job despite ‘unacceptable’ loss

‘I person not fixed my ain presumption immoderate thought’, Carrick said aft United’s 4-1 nonaccomplishment to Como successful the Champions League.

Michael Carrick has admitted that Manchester United were hard to ticker during an “unacceptable” 4-1 Champions League thrashing by Como, but insists helium is not acrophobic astir losing his occupation arsenic manager.

The three-time European champions were outclassed by the Italian debutants astatine the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia connected Wednesday, arsenic the embarrassing decision extended their winless tally to 7 matches successful each competitions.

Carrick’s position has travel nether scrutiny amid United’s slump, which has included their worst commencement to a league play for 40 years, but helium told a quality league that helium was not fearing for his position.

“I person not fixed my ain position immoderate thought,” Carrick said.

The Old Trafford brag insisted that his apology to the travelling fans astatine the extremity of the crippled held nary other value arsenic unit builds connected his position.

“I ever spell implicit to the fans regardless,” Carrick said.

“It wasn’t a peculiarly antithetic crushed wherefore I went over. I deliberation it’s the appreciation and acknowledgement of what they person gone done and what they person done implicit a play of a fewer weeks now. But peculiarly tonight.”

Carrick walked up to Manchester United’s travelling fans to applaud them aft the lucifer [Piero Cruciatti/AFP]

‘It was pugnacious to watch’

United fell down wrong 2 minutes to a Nico Paz goal, becoming the archetypal English squad ever to concede successful the opening 2 minutes of 2 consecutive large European matches, having gone down 1 infinitesimal into a 2-0 decision by Atletico Madrid past week.

Cesc Fabregas’s broadside romped into a deserved 4-0 pb successful bluish Italy earlier substitute Joshua Zirkzee pulled backmost a stoppage-time consolation and Carrick admitted helium was alarmed by the mode successful which his squad were outplayed.

“For america to play successful that way, it’s not acceptable,” helium said. “It wasn’t a bully show astatine all. We wanted to physique connected what we brought and the show we had at Leeds.

“That spot of intensity, that spirit, that aggression, that existent willingness to springiness everything. Tonight was the full other performance. I person to say, it was pugnacious to watch.”

“There’s a batch going done my mind, watching that,” helium continued. “Genuinely, it’s hard to recognize however it tin beryllium truthful antithetic [from the Leeds performance].

“It shouldn’t beryllium similar that. We tin each play well, we tin each person mediocre performances, but to bash it successful that mode is truly not close astatine all.”

Next up for Carrick’s broadside is simply a location Premier League crippled against Bournemouth connected Sunday.

“I’m frustrated, much than frustrated, I’m truly angry, to beryllium honest,” Carrick said.

“You’ve got to determination on, you’ve got to woody with what’s adjacent and spot what that looks like. At this infinitesimal successful time, there’s a batch to bash earlier that adjacent crippled to get the squad acceptable due to the fact that that was a hard nighttime for everyone tonight.”

Manchester United’s Amad Diallo and Joshua Zirkzee respond aft the nonaccomplishment [Piero Cruciatti/AFP]