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title: "Carrick backs Manchester United attack despite first home blank"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Shumail Sajid"
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published: "2026-09-14T12:00:00Z"
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# Carrick backs Manchester United attack despite first home blank

**Michael Carrick believes Manchester United’s attacking output has been good enough to avoid being overly critical of his players, despite their failure to score in the latest defeat.**

[Manchester United](https://readmanutd.com/tag/manchester-united/) drew a blank in the 1-0 loss, ending a run of scoring in every home game they had won.

“To be fair, in terms of creation and scoring goals, that’s something I think in all the games we’ve won here we’ve scored at least two goals. We’ve lost one game \[1-2 v Leeds last season\] and we scored in that game, so it’s the first time \[today we haven’t scored\],” [Michael Carrick said after the game](https://www.manutd.com/en/news/key-quotes-from-michaels-press-conference-city-13-sep-2026).

Michael Carrick isn’t suggesting everything was perfect against Manchester City, but he doesn’t want one poor attacking evening to erase what Manchester United have produced in their previous matches at [Old Trafford](https://readmanutd.com/tag/old-trafford/).

The bigger issue is making sure this remains an isolated problem rather than the start of a pattern.

## **Michael Carrick refuses to blame his forwards**

Michael Carrick was also keen to defend the quality within his attacking group, highlighting the number of players capable of creating and finishing chances.

“I think there’s certainly a bit of context in that as well, and for whatever reason, at some point you have a game when we haven’t scored. So, I can’t be too critical of the players because I think we’ve got some really good creative players who have scored and created goals a lot.”

Still, Carrick acknowledged that United expected more from themselves against City and wanted to find a way to score.

“So, I think when we look at it as an isolated game, of course we would hope for more in general from the team and we certainly wanted to score a goal and we didn’t today.”