While Guardiola’s City was winning its ninth successive game of the season by beating Swansea 2-1 away, United laboured again and needed a helping hand from Northampton’s error-prone goalkeeper and its strong bench to end the first blip of Mourinho’s tenure.
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Manchester United veteran Michael Carrick has no plans to change his style after impressing against Northampton Town, saying Jose Mourinho will recognise his attributes.
Rashford arrived as a second-half sub, with the Cobblers holding their famous visitors at 1-1 in Wednesday’s EFL Cup third round tie, but soon teed up Ander Herrera’s thumping strike then capitalised on an almighty clanger from Smith to seal victory with United’s third. If the fans have been disappointed with the last week, I understand completely but I am sure they will be behind the team like they always are.
He said: “It was hard as I was expecting, but we looked to be in control for the first 35 minutes and then we looked to be in control for the last 45”.
“But they fought, they played with their strength and they tried to create us problems, which they did sometimes”.
In the little post-match activity he did, the Portuguese underlined his anger that Jak McCourt’s tackle on Memphis Depay early in the second half brought a booking rather than a red card. I should wait for you to speak, a couple of minutes ago I spoke about the red card, I am not speaking about a penalty against Manchester City (after Wayne Rooney was challenged in the box by City keeper Claudio Bravo). “I can understand clearly the disappointment”.
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“A couple of minutes ago I told about the red card because it’s a really unsafe situation”. People need to calm down over the squad changes – we’re all in it together.
