Manchester United coach Michael Carrick apologized to supporters after a humbling 4-1 loss to Como in the Champions League on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Carrick described the performance in Italy as unacceptable and took responsibility as United’s season slumped to a new low.<\/p>\n
“I care an unbelievable amount about the supporters. They are the heartbeat of this football club and they always will be,” Carrick said. “For them to travel, I had to apologize for the performance. To have to watch a performance like that, I totally feel for them.”<\/p>\n
Carrick walked over to the traveling fans at the end of the match and repeatedly held his hands up in recognition of the defeat.<\/p>\n
(Photo by Image Photo Agency\/Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n It was United’s fifth loss in all competitions this season and extended the team’s winless run to seven games.<\/p>\n “It was more than disappointing. I think everybody has got to take responsibility for that,” he said. “I 100% take responsibility for the overall team and the performance \u2014 that\u2019s where it stops. It stops with me and I\u2019m absolutely fine with that. I accept that totally. But as a supporter of this football club for so long, to see a performance like that is unacceptable, I have to say.”<\/p>\n Carrick’s position is coming under increasing scrutiny just months after he was handed a two-year deal.<\/p>\n A serial winner as a United player, Carrick rescued the season last term when taking over on a temporary basis in January. An outstanding run of results saw United secure a third place finish in the standing and qualification for the Champions League.<\/p>\n But it has been a troubled start to this season, with United winning just once in the league and exiting the English League Cup at the earliest stage.<\/p>\n Nico Paz scored twice for Como, with Tasos Douvikas and Jacobo Ramon also on target.<\/p>\n Substitue Joshua Zirkzee scored a consolation for United.<\/p>\n Captain Bruno Fernandes appeared to question United’s tactical approach to the game, telling broadcaster TNT Sports: “It\u2019s a decision from the staff to not press man to man.”<\/p>\n Asked if the tactics were wrong, he added: “That’s on the manager and the staff to say it, it’s not on me. I just said that I think sometimes we have to be more brave under pressure, trying to take the risk of getting that press very high and making them uncomfortable, as they did to us.”<\/p>\n The latest defeat comes a week after defender Lisandro Martinez hit out at United’s hierarchy over recruitment following the loss to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. He later apologized.<\/p>\n Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Manchester United coach Michael Carrick apologized to supporters after a humbling 4-1 loss to Como in the Champions League on Wednesday. Carrick described the performance in Italy as unacceptable and took responsibility as United’s season slumped to a new low. “I care an unbelievable amount about the supporters. They are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}