Sunderland 0-0 Man United: Red Devils head coach Michael Carrick delivers reaction to Stadium of Light stalemate

Manchester United caput manager Michael Carrick has taken the positives from Saturday's goalless draw with Sunderland successful the Premier League.

The Red Devils lone managed 1 changeable connected people during a disappointing attacking display, but the gully was capable to determination the 20-time English champions six points wide of fourth-placed Liverpool successful the Premier League table with lone 2 games near to play.

Carrick made 5 changes to his starting squad astatine the Stadium of Light, with Noussair Mazraoui, Lisandro Martinez, Mason Mount, Amad Diallo and Joshua Zirkzee coming into the XI.

The Red Devils struggled successful the last 3rd of the field, but a beardown antiaircraft show was capable to assertion a stock of the spoils.

"It's a pugnacious spot to come. They've had a bully grounds present each season. We'll instrumentality the point, a cleanable expanse is ever bully to get," Carrick told Sky Sports News.

Sunderland 0-0 Man United: Red Devils fortify grip connected 3rd with a constituent astatine the Stadium of Light

"We've scored a batch of goals this season, its conscionable 1 of those games. A decent capable constituent and we astir won it astatine the end."

When asked however the 5 changes impacted the match, Carrick said: "It's 1 game. It's the clip of the season. We've done a batch of bully enactment and immoderate changes contiguous and I thought the cognition to the boys was truly good.

"Today is simply a affirmative effect successful presumption of the point. Was it going to beryllium a cleanable game? We weren't expecting a cleanable game. It is what it is. It's not thing we request to overthink and it's hard to beryllium negative.

Carrick pleased with "decent capable point" astatine Sunderland

"As a squad we could person been a spot amended but we cognize what the boys tin do. Everyone has contributed successful specified a bully way, I'm pleased with the wide connection, connection and willingness to enactment for each different today.

"We gave everything this week. We've got our past location crippled of the play that we volition enactment towards this week. We look guardant to it. It's important to decorativeness the play beardown and I deliberation contiguous is simply a affirmative enactment for us."

Man United volition instrumentality connected Nottingham Forest connected May 17 and Brighton & Hove Albion connected May 24 successful their last 2 games of the 2025-26 Premier League campaign.