Speaking at his press conference to preview the game, head coach Michael Carrick suggested there are no fresh issues arising from last weekend’s 2-0 derby win over Manchester City.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to tell you the team first off [laughs],” he began. “No, everyone came through the game really well actually. I can\u2019t tell you anything, apart from the obvious.”<\/p>\n
In a separate interview with MUTV, he added: “The boys are in a really good place, off the back of last week. They’re training really well, so I can see how much they’re in it and focused and feed off the energy.<\/p>\n
“The boys came through it really well [last weekend]. It was big, there’s no getting away from it, an emotional day, physically and mentally, and a big lift.<\/p>\n
“In terms of the levels, it was huge but the boys came through it really well. They had a day or two to rest but trained really hard and well for a couple of days, and freshed up for the game, so we’re in a good place.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking forward to a real challenge, one for us we’re going down to face head on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at his press conference to preview the game, head coach Michael Carrick suggested there are no fresh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[213899,748,393,1592,4884,18,12237,12,1144,12242,712,20,11385,16,15,21,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-717332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2026_01_25_emirates_stadium_london","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-first-team","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-like","14":"tag-matthijs-de-ligt","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-noussair-mazraoui","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-search","20":"tag-team-news","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-now","24":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115949564362049172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717332","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=717332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}