{"id":1163231,"date":"2026-08-22T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1163231\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:35:15","slug":"one-game-doesnt-change-anything-michael-carrick-reacts-as-manchester-united-suffer-shock-opening-day-defeat-at-promoted-hull-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1163231\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One game doesn\u2019t change anything\u2019 &#8211; Michael Carrick reacts as Manchester United suffer shock opening day defeat at promoted Hull City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to TNT Sports after the final whistle, a defiant Carrick was keen to ensure that this result does not derail the long-term vision he has established at Old Trafford, stating: &#8216;Two goals is frustrating anyway, they decide the game today and there&#8217;s things to improve on, one game doesn&#8217;t change the direction of everything. It doesn&#8217;t change the direction of the football club.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on what exactly went wrong and which areas required immediate attention, Carrick remained protective of his tactical adjustments. He noted: &#8216;We have a bit to improve on, it was never going to be perfect; going behind makes it more difficult. Against a promoted team at home, we can&#8217;t give them much and they had opportunities. We&#8217;re disappointed but it won&#8217;t knock us. It&#8217;s for us to know and to improve during the week and keep getting stronger as a group, and we have a lot to learn from it.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to TNT Sports after the final whistle, a defiant Carrick was keen to ensure that this result&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[248017,748,393,4884,35553,315754,163050,2465,98,101,16,15],"class_list":["post-1163231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-b-fernandes","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hull-city","tag-hull-city-vs-manchester-united","tag-m-carrick","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117139900140858464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}