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Dear Carrick,
Four days ago we were two goals up at Old Trafford inside ten minutes.
Before Wednesday, United had been 2-0 up at home 145 times in fifty years. We won 143 of them. We are now one of the two that got away — and we managed it against a Brighton side who'd made six changes.
You said it yourself afterwards. "That's on me." I respected that. Most wouldn't have said it.
So I waited to see what you'd do with it.
Today at Craven Cottage, away at the team sitting 19th in the league, we started with no recognised centre forward on the pitch. Šeško wasn't even in the eighteen. Zirkzee sat on the bench while three wingers took turns pretending to be a number nine — the same thing we did in the derby, the same thing that left Mbeumo and Cunha wandering around all afternoon with nobody occupying their centre backs.
Be fair about their goal: it came off a Lammens save with two of theirs waiting on the rebound. That's football, not bad defending. And Lammens made three more to keep us level — away at the bottom club.
Rashford missed three clear chances. Barcelona watched him for a season and wouldn't pay thirty million, and for ninety minutes today I understood exactly what they saw.
And then, in the 89th minute, Cunha went back to the position he actually plays. And scored.
That's the part I can't get past — and it's the part that connects the two games.
On Wednesday you brought Bruno on as an emergency, after the game had already turned. Today you found the right shape in the 89th minute. Both times you eventually did the obvious thing. Both times you did it after it stopped mattering.
Growing up watching United under Ferguson, I watched a man who never changed a winning formula. What I'm watching now is a man who won't change a losing one until the scoreboard forces him to.
Tomorrow this gets filed as "a point away from home". It wasn't. It was the second time in five days that we found the answer too late to use it.
You've asked us to be patient. We have been. Patience isn't the problem.
The problem is that you keep asking us to be patient for the same thing.
Still with you. Just tired.
Dear Carrick,
Four days ago we were two goals up at Old Trafford inside ten minutes.
Before Wednesday, United had been 2-0 up at home 145 times in fifty years. We won 143 of them. We are now one of the two that got away — and we managed it against a Brighton side who'd made six changes.
You said it yourself afterwards. "That's on me." I respected that. Most wouldn't have said it.
So I waited to see what you'd do with it.
Today at Craven Cottage, away at the team sitting 19th in the league, we started with no recognised centre forward on the pitch. Šeško wasn't even in the eighteen. Zirkzee sat on the bench while three wingers took turns pretending to be a number nine — the same thing we did in the derby, the same thing that left Mbeumo and Cunha wandering around all afternoon with nobody occupying their centre backs.
Be fair about their goal: it came off a Lammens save with two of theirs waiting on the rebound. That's football, not bad defending. And Lammens made three more to keep us level — away at the bottom club.
Rashford missed three clear chances. Barcelona watched him for a season and wouldn't pay thirty million, and for ninety minutes today I understood exactly what they saw.
And then, in the 89th minute, Cunha went back to the position he actually plays. And scored.
That's the part I can't get past — and it's the part that connects the two games.
On Wednesday you brought Bruno on as an emergency, after the game had already turned. Today you found the right shape in the 89th minute. Both times you eventually did the obvious thing. Both times you did it after it stopped mattering.
Growing up watching United under Ferguson, I watched a man who never changed a winning formula. What I'm watching now is a man who won't change a losing one until the scoreboard forces him to.
Tomorrow this gets filed as "a point away from home". It wasn't. It was the second time in five days that we found the answer too late to use it.
You've asked us to be patient. We have been. Patience isn't the problem.
The problem is that you keep asking us to be patient for the same thing.
Still with you. Just tired.
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