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Michael Carrick has been addressing the media in the embargoed section of the Crystal Palace pre-match press conference.

A “Michael Carrick team”

The first question in this section was about how much the current United team feels like a “Michael Carrick team”.

He answered:
“I think it always evolves. It’s never perfect. I’ve said that. It’s always hoping for more. I think part of it’s understanding of how little time still we’ve been together. Sometimes it’s going to go well and there’s going to be the times where it doesn’t quite click so much. I think not to be overpicky and overworking certain things and actually taking the perspective in the bigger picture is important for us.”

“But yeah, I think we’re in a good place. In some ways, we’ve made big strides, winning games that we might not have won at other times, played some good football at times, things to improve at times, defending really, really well a lot of the time, and keeping clean sheets. So there’s lots of positives. Certainly, there’s so many layers of levels that we feel we can get to as a group. So we’ll just keep pushing for...