Michael Carrick has no doubts that Manchester United will bounce back after international break following a disappointing 3-0 defeat against Arsenal today.
Goals from Alexis Sánchez and Mesut Özil inside the first twenty minutes at the Emirates Stadium handed the Gunners all three points and allowed them to leapfrog United into second in the Premier League table.
Louis van Gaal’s men will have to stew over this defeat for the next two weeks, with the international break coming up, and Carrick admitted that the performance today was not good enough.
“We just didn’t start well enough, or quick enough, and conceded goals,” he told MUTV. “When you concede goals at this level then it makes it difficult to come back. I think we improved as the game went on, but it just wasn’t good enough from us.”
We are bitterly disappointed and will probably beat ourselves up about it over the next few weeks, but we’ll come back looking at the bigger picture. It’s a setback, but we’re still up there and just need to take this one on the chin, take whatever criticism comes our way and come back stronger.
The 34-year old midfielder was encouraged by United’s performance in the second half but felt that losing two goals in the first ten minutes led to the Reds’ downfall.
“We just gave them a bit too much space and they played well and it came off for them,” he said. “We did too many things wrong; you could go on forever talking about why things didn’t work, but we just didn’t start well enough, conceded the goals and gave ourselves too much to do.”
In the second half, we came out believing that we could get one goal and that gets ourselves back in the game. It was a big ask, to score three, but if [Anthony] Martial’s chance had gone in just before half-time it gives us a better chance, but it was a good save. Second half we came out and were better, but we didn’t score and the longer it went, it was pretty much game over.
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