(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
(3) Carrick's return ended with him wearing the captain's armband and Defoe was sharp and confident after replacing Carroll, scoring with a peach of a strike.
(4) Moyes's plan for Carrick and Marouane Fellaini to "tag-team" West Ham's striker worked handsomely and Carroll's only moment of threat came after 15 minutes, when he headed straight at David de Gea.
(5) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(6) Michael Carrick believes Manchester United are capable of catching Manchester City and beating them to second place in the Premier League.
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(8) De Rossi's header was a soft goal to concede, and an unimpressive start from Carrick given that he was the player who was out-jumped in the process.
(9) Supporting cast: De Gea, Rafael Da Silva, Ferdinand, Evans, Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Welbeck.
(10) Carrick looked nice on the ball, as he always does, even if Lampard was more influential.
(11) Michael Carrick turns 35 in July and is yet to be offered a new one-year deal.
(12) Michael Carrick has expressed his happiness at seeing Bastian Schweinsteiger return to Manchester United’s first team in the 4-1 EFL Cup victory over West Ham United .
(13) United have offered De Gea a considerable pay rise as well as handing new contracts to Chris Smalling, Michael Carrick and Andreas Pereira, with talks going on to do the same with Ashley Young and Phil Jones.
(14) We’re sitting on top of some quite significant changes in consumer behaviour and I don’t think we should ignore those,” said Richard Carrick, a consultant to the travel industry.
(15) Michael Carrick is happy to solve Manchester United’s injury crisis by playing at centre-back in the coming weeks.
(16) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
(17) Yet it was still an encouraging victory for Mourinho’s team and a difficult afternoon for Tottenham Hotspur was probably summed up by the moment Dele Alli, the impudent young buck, tried to upstage Michael Carrick by slipping the ball through his opponent’s legs.
(18) It left Louis van Gaal’s team with a back four of Antonio Valencia, Michael Carrick, Paddy McNair and Luke Shaw.
(19) We have a lot of injuries in defence but you have also seen how Michael Carrick came in and also how Paddy McNair came in,” he said.
(20) This meant Maniatis was free to push forward and join the more technical Alejandro Domínguez closing down Michael Carrick and Tom Cleverley.