A thousand hoorays for Hull City, authors of one of the great opening weekend stories of recent times, destroyers of reputations, joint-leaders of the Premier League. It’s only one match, yet one that Hull will relish even if they depart the Premier League as most expect at the season’s end.
Michael Carrick’s face when the goals went in were a smouldering mosaic of embarrassment, shock and mortification. Yes, Michael, this is your team, the one you picked, the one you prepared.
The so-called leadership in the posh seats, CEO Omar Berrada and his director of football Jason Wilcox, squirmed just as uncomfortably as the myth of Manchester United’s revival under Carrick unravelled before them.
While Hull justifiably glory in in the euphoria of it all, it’s back to crisis management, introspection and questions for Carrick and United. Let’s start with this. What happened to Manchester United DNA, you know, that molecular footprint that Carrick was supposed to understand and decipher to rebuild the team?
Whatever DNA means in the football context, there was precious little connection between the team led by Carrick at Hull and the one he served with distinction as a player. We of course understand the concept of history and tradition and can readily conjure an image of the great United teams of the past, the ball moving quickly, wingers dazzling at speed, strikers attacking with menace.
This was the blueprint Ineos pledged to resurrect when Sir Jim Ratcliffe waved his £1.3bn cheque on Christmas Eve almost three years ago. We are still waiting. The position might not be so perplexing were there something in Carrick’s work that allowed us to identify just what style of football he is seeking to implement.
We are still waiting to see the impact of Ineos’ money (Photo: Reuters)United had the majority of the ball at Hull and little of the threat. When they did find space, mainly via Bryan Mbeumo, Hull’s new goalkeeper, Greek international Konstantinos Tzolakis, saved routinely.
Of all the “big-six” coaches, Carrick is arguably the one without a philosophy attached. Is there such a thing as Carrick-ball? We know what Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal team might look like, one not dissimilar to that of fellow Pep Guardiola disciple Enzo Maresca at Manchester City.
The Guardiola-like emphasis on detail and emotion is equally prominent in the work of Roberto De Zerbi at Spurs. Andoni Iraola will seek to establish width and pace through the middle as he adapts his counter-attacking style at Liverpool. What Carrick-ball might mean is hard to know.
Hull’s ensemble of middling punts, budget buys and free transfers, held out with few alarms. This staple of myriad relegation forecasts, a club that last hosted United in the Premier League when Jose Mourinho was in charge, a team dismissed as “gone” by pundit Joe Cole, set fire to a world of preconceptions, not least that United are somehow different under Carrick.
A positive week on the training ground was supposed to recentre the team after the shredding in Poland at the hand’s of AC Milan, coached by the bloke they sacked half way through last season. Ruben Amorim cut through the rubric propping up assessments of United march to third under Carrick to pick them apart.
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Kevin Garside: Man Utd’s time bomb could explode within weeks Premier League predictions: Crystal Palace relegated, Leeds in EuropeHull paid attention, running hard, tackling harder, winning second balls and tearing at the heart of a suspect defence with set-pieces. The first goal came from a corner, the second from a free-kick, both poorly defended.
What was supposed to be a gift of a start for United, the springboard to a genuine “we want to win the lot” campaign turned into the worst result of Carrick’s short career as United coach, one that met with the familiar cliches of a coach without answers.
“Disappointed. Frustrating. We can’t ignore it. There are things to improve on,” Carrick said. “We are aware of what we need to get better at. But it’s one game. It doesn’t change the direction of the club. We will go away and work hard and come back next week.”
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