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You're listening to the Sky Sports Premier League podcast Welcome Along. There were four games live on Sky Sports on Sunday, rounded off by Manchester United against Ipswich Town and Adolf Trafford. This is how things sound it when the final whistle blew. While Bruno Fernandez was beautiful and Manchester United are on the board after a stumble on day one. Stabilising in his case, Stella starts Adolf Trafford. His hat trick alongside a goal for Bruno Fernandez and an unlucky moment for Jacob Reaves took Manchester United in the end to five, all bit after a jotting early half hour for Michael Carrick who saw a really purposeful progressive Ipswich team take the lead through Leif Davis for quite a while until his misadventure and misfortune for quite a while to remain competitive against the Manchester United side which in the end, in the end, Gary Pugler. Yeah, and fencing in the end from the point of view of the score line but for Michael Carrick I'm sure he'll look at all of the game and he'll be proud of a lot of the great attacking football in the second half. I think he'll want improvements in the defensive part in the first half of the game where Ipswich were a real threat and usually when the probability team of the championship gets beat five, you know they're a little bit thinkable, they're going to be in trouble this season without I think the opposite of Ipswich I'm more confident in them today than I was before the game and that's unusual I've been seeing the score line but a couple of goals went against them that were a little bit unfortunate and that then just left them skiing a lot of, needing a lot of problems with Manchester United basically Bruno Fernandez caused most of those problems. Thank you Gary, there you go Kelly, it was a rattling good watch in the rain and Manchester United won it by five goals to two. Peter and Gary thank you very much, actually only do need to talk about Bruno because Fernandez, as he has been so many times, the absolute key for Manchester United is the third half of the club, his first in the Premier League for five years and it all came in twenty-eight minutes. It was fantastic. He's the one that gets him in there too, he's been that player that, you know, there's a reason why it's been voted player here by his fellow professionals and his performances like this, we've seen it, time and time again but he was the one that even the driver for Manchester United especially in the second half to get a hat trick, you know, to get the assist, the way he played it was just phenomenal and you know I think he brings other players around him up to his level as well and you know I think my United showed that they weren't messing about in the second half. Yeah, they wanted a reaction today, did they get it in terms of the overall performance because the scoreline at 5-2 is really impressive. As Gary was saying, as he was sort of wrapping up, maybe wasn't a 5-2 scoreline kind of game or there wasn't that big a difference between the sides. No, I think so and I think it just which can find himself unlucky especially in the first half the way that they performed. I think, you know, when United scored at the time they did I still was saying it at a half time, you know, the stripper then will help the team in the second half and you know, we'll get the goals coming in. If the players start running behind, you saw Michael Stratford, we saw Byron and Bromo, we saw Kunya, everybody was at a fantastic game and you can still, there's a real togetherness. Everybody knows their jobs, everyone knows what they need to be doing. I think Michael Carrot's got them saying this and we're going to work but at times we're going to play football and play in a way that the players like and I think you see that the smiles that you see after the game. Talking about managers who have everybody knowing exactly what they're doing that's what Gary O'Neill's got it. It's switched to success last week. Disappointment today but can they take some satisfaction from that performance? Gary O'Neill was saying he's more confident now that they're going to be more than good enough to stay in the Premier League this season. Yeah, I think so. I think certainly that first half performance, I think they had three or four really good chances, it's got a really good goal as well. I think there'll be a lot of positive thoughts from Gary O'Neill. A second half, maybe a little bit of capitulation, a few decisions went against in the handball with Harry McWire, things like that, the Jacob Grieves, obviously the penalty box. I think you can, you come to a place like Manchester United and you expect a reaction. You know they're going to come up against Blazing and first half of the management contained that. But second half and Bruno Fernandez in particular was absolutely outstanding. His goal was the assist, his vision, everything he did in that second half was positive and that's why Man United ran out, out right winners 5-2. We'll continue to talk much more about this game, but overall on Super Sunday, they've been 17 goals today. Seven of them of course, an old traffic and seven of them. Ed Stanford Bridgework Chelsea beat Brighton by four goals to three. Cole Palmer on the score sheet and this, as it did in their opening game, proved to be the winning goal come the full time whistle. At Ellen Road, it finished lead one Brentford one. They went ahead Brentford through Shada, Kevin Shada. Every time he scored, Brentford have never lost the game. That continued, even though Dominic Calvert Loan managed to get the equaliser late on for the United. And just the one goal in it at the stadium of light, where Sunderland got their first win of this Premier League campaign. The goal came eventually from Wilson. It's a goal he just missed a chance just before this, but made sure of the three points with that strike. Manchester United, five two winners at home to Ipswich, 33 shots, 12 of which won target is more than any other team so far this season. And having been the lowest in terms of Jules 1 on the opening weekend, 65% of Jules 1 is the highest from this round of matches this week. And an XG of four and a half compared to two for Ipswich, so pretty much playing out as expected in terms of the chances. Bruno Fernandes at the heart of everything, he got a hat trick in this game within 28 minutes. Harry Maguire almost on the score sheet, and both of them, I would clean my last scene. Bruno Harry, congratulations. That must feel like a really big win first when you bounce this season. No, obviously, it was massive for us. We knew we lost three points, last week, so it was all about to get three points, give a good performance to our fans, first game at home. They've been waiting long for this, so we wanted to... It's not makeup for last week, because you can't get six points in this game, but we wanted to start the game on the front foot, be strong. I think we were in control of the game, even if we considered the goal, and then second off, we were very, very good. It felt like a real statement win today. What do you think the team did particularly well? Well, I think we started the game really well, and the goal knocked us back a lot, I must say, the defeat last week was tough to take, and when you lose at this club there's loads of noise, and it feels like you're in a crisis again after one game, but now I think when they scored the first goal, I think that was the 5-10 minutes after that, I think we lost control of the game. We spoke about it half-time, we got control again, and yeah, the second half. We know that we can score goals in any moment, and we've proved that we could have scored more. How important was that equaliser that you managed to score just before half-time to keep that belief going? Well, I think scoring before the half-time is always important, even if it's to get on top of the game or to draw the game, because it gives you a little bit of belief that not everything you were doing was wrong, and I think, as H said, we were in control of the game, we lost the control for 5-10 minutes after the goal we conceded, but then we got back on track, and I think in the second half after some adjustments, we were very good. You played your part in that second goal, there was a bit of a debate about whether it was your goal, whether it was going to be handball, what was your view on it? No, I actually hadn't seen it back, so I can't really comment. I know it was tight, I didn't mean it wasn't, I'm ball on purpose for sure, I don't know if it pushed my fingers, but I actually dragged the shot a little bit wide, so I think it's going to go down as an own goal, unfortunately. So probably that's the reason why it counted, because I think if it was my goal, I think they disallow it, I think that's the rules nowadays, but no, thankfully, it was on our side today, and I think we deserved a win, and we deserved a little bit of luck. Hat trick for you Bruno, your third now for Manchester United, just how good does it feel to do that? No, score goals, it's the best feeling in football, obviously, and then doing an act trick in the game at home with our fans, it's something amazing that I'm very proud of, but the main thing is that I need to score goals to help the team to win games. Today I did that, and I hope that I can do much more, and help my team to score goals too. How important does a result like this feel, especially after what happened, and the start of the weekend, the opening weekend, to be able to respond like you did today? Yeah, it's massive, I think, like I said, I think last week was disappointing, and we've prepared all pre-season to go on with the game against Holland. Unfortunately, we got done by two set plays, and we couldn't respond, so we knew today was massive in front of our fans, it's been a long time since we've been at Old Trafford, so we look forward to playing here, and thankfully, we managed to get three points, and listen, it's three points, we move on, we've got a long season ahead, and we'll be focused for the next one. Harry, will you please do the honors? You are the man of the match. Thank you very much, thank you very much. Congratulations, thanks guys, see you soon. Harry McGuire hasn't seen that own goal yet, but he has been very briefed on the alcohol loss, so he's right across that one. We'll look at that in just a second, and Brennan Fernandez, obviously, with the hat trick. The opening goal, the chance came about from a touch of good fortune with a slip. However, the move from then on and the finish from Fernandez was impressive. Yeah, it was, you know, it was some fortunate for Nunez here, when he gets the ball, he slips over, but, you know, he's Bentley said, Kunya, I thought he was going to carry on going, but, you know, he sees the run from Bruno Fernandez, and Bruno Fernandez got one foot on his mind. Take a touch out of him front of me, and hit it as hard as I can, my left foot. If he's on target, I've got a chance of scoring, and, you know, it was a fantastic goal to get Manuel Knight back into the game, and then going to halftime, that goal there was massive, getting the goal before halftime, to then come out in the second half and produce a performance in what they did. It was for supply. Okay, so here's the goal that Harry Maguire hasn't seen back yet. There is a question as to whether it's deliberate handball. That's what we're looking at from Harry Maguire here, when he receives the ball, and then he has the shot, which is deflected in. It was going wide, therefore it goes down as an own goal by Jacob Reef. So that's the handball. You can argue the toss as to whether that's accidental or deliberate. He will say that it's a natural body position and therefore it's accidental, and then there's the deflection from Jacob Reef, which makes it the own goal. So that part is not endowed. Any question mark as to whether that's accidental or deliberate? I mean, he's going to say it's accidental. I understand that he's a challenger with true backbone, when his arms are up there. He's almost trying to protect himself. But I understand that the rules of the game and it's obviously accidental, and if he directly scores it, it gets ruled out. But I still think he directly impacts the goal, but having the shot at goal, yes, he drags it, and gets it wrong. So it used to be the case that any handball by an attacking player would have meant that the goal was ruled out. However, that has been changed. So now this is what Match Centre have said. This is what was been confirmed by VAR. Harry Maguire wasn't the immediate goal scorer. It was an accidental handball, so it's an own goal, and therefore the accidental handball is not punishable. So they recommend they said that you award the goal. So this is the laws of the game as spelled out by IFAB. It's an offensive of player scores in the opponent's goal, directly from their hand or arm, even if accidental, including by the goalkeeper. So that wasn't the case, because it wasn't direct from Harry Maguire. Immediately after the ball has touched their hand or arm, even if accidental, that wasn't the case from Harry Maguire. And then this is where it is pertinent. Following an accidental handball by an attacker, if the ball is clearly moving wide of the goal, but is touched or played by defending player, and a clear own goal occurs, the goal should be awarded. So that's the direct interpretation, and that's the direct advice on particularly this situation, if we're saying that Harry Maguire's handball is accidental. Well, I think it could go either way. Of course, Harry Maguire's arms are up. Of course, he's chest. Like Bentley said, he's protecting himself from whether it's going to be a tube wrap on foot or whatnot. You know, it's got a way of it. Like I said, you could feel aggrieved if you get it against you. You could feel aggrieved if it works in your favour. It's one of them things that it's a difficult one. It's hard, but they've got a way of it. They've got the goal. It's one of those rules where I understand it, because obviously it's there in black and white you can see it, but it still doesn't feel right, because Harry Maguire directly impacts what happens the ball ends up in the back of the net at a crucial time for it, which, and they get the wooden of the goal, and I understand the rules, but if he hits your hand with that player and he's still the one who kind of directly impacts it, still not an asshole to take. But he will argue, if your hands are here and you're protecting your chest, it's accidental. Where else are they meant to go in that situation? But you're right. It was a pivotal goal in the match, because it's the one that gave Manchester United the lead for the first time. And at that point, Manchester United just ran away with it, and it was the Bruno Fernandes show. It was, yeah, Bruno Fernandes. He turned up. You know, this from Copenhagen was fantastic. He releases Kunja. Kunja takes a great touch. Unfortunately, you know, Jacob Bruce, he takes him out. And then a penalty. Of course. It was a tough day for him. But like I said, the pass through from Copenhagen was absolutely fantastic. And Kunja does, he's smarter as a striker. He gets the touch, and he sees the challenge coming. Bruno Fernandes steps up to take the penalty and as cool as he always is, you know, with the little starter, watch the goalkeeper move and, you know, he slots it away. I mean, it was hard for Epps, which maybe not to wobble at this point. Having had so much of the game in the first half, having been really organised and really well-disciplined, having taken the lead, and then we're only at level at the break to then find themselves three-one down, and then four. Yes, as quickly as that. I mean, it's quite a scrappy goal, but again, it's Bruno Fernandes. This touch from Bruno Fernandes, he reacts really well. It's only one movement. He tentatively within step, and then just rolled it into the far corner. It's a lovely finish. Lovely first touch there, and then just kind of rolls it into the far corner. And that period there, Manchester, you know, were absolutely rampant. Just the way when it takes the deflection, when it comes through, and the way that Fernandes adjusts his feet down to take that shot. It's incredible, because even the spin, if you look at the spin on the ball, that could have gone anywhere. But because of how good he is, and obviously the confidence is flowing, he's just got a penalty, it's got that great goal in the first half, his touch is absolutely perfect. And only in one movement, he touches out his feet, rolls it into the far corner, and effectively the game's over. He is so important to Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes, and he is something of a, at times, controversial figure, from outside the club. Certainly not from inside it. But in terms of what he brings to that team, if they don't have Bruno Fernandes out there to have that kind of motivating factor to drive the rest of the team on, it potentially works out differently. Of course it doesn't. Bruno Fernandes is one of the players that, like I say, some people like him, some people don't like him. Bruno Fernandes brings so much to this football club. He's fantastic on the pitch, and he's a winner. He's got that mentality that he wants to be the best. He wants the win. It is huge for this club. If they don't have him, there's going to be a big hole in this team. So, and you know, we met Ben, he said, he keeps himself so fit as well. He's always available for his team, and at times, there's been a lot of question marks and phone his arms up, but he just wants the win. He just wants to get on that pitch and do everything he can. I think that it showed today that, you know, the attitude that he went about his job with, you know, the character that he did, that the, you know, he galvanised his team. You know, with the first half, first 30 minutes, 35 minutes, you know, he said there that, you know, the goal, did they didn't see the goal coming again, and it switched, it switched to gone, you know, got another goal as well. They were fortunate, but, like I say, the way that he performed, you need the players to step up, and, you know, when you got Bruno Fernandes playing like this, it is fantastic for this team. And he was instrumental in the fifth goal, in the, in the fifth goal as well, in the, the assist for, for him, Burma. What a pass, because I mean, in Braimow's run, he runs with real purpose, and it's just like, please put it there. And Bruno Fernandes puts it in the exact spot he needs it. And when it's a fantastic finish, because I'm thinking, just not it passed the goalkeeper, I put it in the empty net. But in the pass, and I think this is the angle here, he just swivels all in one move and then just drops it in beyond that if she's backline. And then in Braimow, good run, times into perfection. And again, Jacob Greaves, who had a, a bit indifferent afternoon, the spring couple off the bar, he thinks he's going to clear it, and the bat's going to take it back over the line and he puts it into the roof of the net, but for him, Braimow there, the run, the pass, and Bruno Fernandes, absolutely superb. I think he's still awareness that Bruno Fernandes shows on the pass. You know, he sees Braimow running through before I think anybody else sees. He's just taken one look. He knows he's going to make that run. I think that was something that was said at half-time that they need to get players running in behind them. You know, you see, he just knows that Braim's going to be there, and he just puts it, you know, the fight is powerful, and it's a fantastic finish. I was going to ask, whether Brian and Braimow does that, if it's still 1-1, if he, but then I think, probably he's the type of player who would try something like that. We did do it often enough from the first half. I mean, actually said that. We said that, but how many times are you going to run in behind? Because I thought, if he's his back line was quite high, but in that moment there, when obviously again, the confidence is flowing, that passing Bruno Fernandes because Braimow probably knows, and you know what I'm saying? If Coby Main is probably on the ball, he probably doesn't make that run with that same purpose, but because it's Bruno Fernandes with the range of passing he's got, and the vision that he's got, as soon as it's only anywhere near Bruno, he just makes the run, and it's a fantastic pass. There have been some question marks as to why Manchester United haven't spent on defence in this transfer window, but Gary Neville joined us before the game and was talking through the transfer policy and outlined, you know, the money that was spent and the forward line, the money now been spent on midfield, and maybe defence is next in line. Did we see the benefit of what has been spent so far in trying to build this Manchester United squad? Yeah, I think you do. You look at the front line of what they performed today. Marcus Ratchford coming back into the team. I think there's going to be a lot of hype and talk around, you know, in being back. Probably some fans wouldn't have wanted them to come back, but you know, he's performance today. He was brilliant as well. You got Kenya, you had Braimow getting on the score sheet. It's them connections, and you know, when you build up them connections in training, and you can go and do that in the games, it is fantastic. Of course, you know, we spoke about the defence, and you know, there is worries about them, and I'm sure there's going to be, if carers can get a few more bodies in through the door to, you know, to bolster the squad because they've got Champions League football this season. It's going to be tough, it's going to be hard, but if you've got a front line that is producing what they produce today, and they can do that all season, stay injury free, then you know, you won't be worried too much about the back line. Marcus Ratchford, you mentioned there, making his first Manchester United start since December 2024. He's been off in Barcelona. He comes back to Old Trafford. Michael Carrick makes sure that he knows that he's part of his plans at Manchester United. Did he justify his inclusion today? Absolutely, I thought he looked really sharp. I mean, the only thing that would have topped it off would have been a goal. But I thought he looked really, really good. He was gone past, he was positive. I mean, he had one incredible volley back across the goal, which Braimow probably should score from as well. So I think looking back, he's overall performance. He'd probably say to himself, yeah, but I still think there's more levels to him. I think he's that good of a player that, when he's in Red Hawk form, you go back to that 22 season, where he's called the 30 goals. He was unplayable. If Marcus Ratchford could get back to anywhere near that, that's going to be like a new sign if a Manchester United. Because I believe he makes Manchester United stronger. If he plays like he did today, Manchester United could go very far this season. Plenty of optimism then around Manchester United after that five to win an impressive scoreline against Stipstwich. But plenty to admire in that Ipswich performance, particularly in the first half of the game. We'll get the thoughts of Gary O'Neill and Ipswich Reaction next. 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Emotional discipline ended up stepping out on things, leaving big spaces, and got punished by a very good side. But yeah, the two goals to put us two on down were a tough blow and to lose Emmy at half time, of course. Could have been very different. To beat Manchester United, Old Trapper, do you need the moments to go in your favour? They didn't. They're a couple that went against us, and then we weren't good enough in the end for the last half an hour to sort of get a hold of the game and make it look how it did at the start. We lost control to sort of the momentum. That's the bit that we'll focus on really is trying to improve that, because it can happen. People can slip, referees can, or rules can go against you. Well, at the reflection, there's lots of things that can happen in the game that are beyond your control. It's then how we respond to that for the last half an hour, that we need to get better at. But we were proud of the players, I thought they gave everything. They were arguably the best side for 50, 58, 56 minutes. But we have to improve that last little bit. Is that really the overall feeling on that second goal, than it's just the rules really that went against you for that? I think so. It's a complicated rule. Handball is the goal scorer, but not if it takes a deflection and the ball was heading off target. I think that's tough to ref, to be honest, because if it's heading at the post, is that, I mean, if it's close? How's the ref going to be able to tell whether it was going in or not going in from if McGuire's shot was a bit more accurate? Would it still be disallowed? So yeah, difficult rule to ref, but no problem. I'm not here to moan about refs or I'm going to look at our bit, look at how we did so well to start with, and then look how we lost our way. And this result is, you know, we get no points, which is an old traffic. A lot of people will leave for no points, but we leave with understanding what we need to get better at, some real positives in what we did for the first hour. And we have four days to prepare for another big game against Liverpool, so it doesn't stop. Is that one of the important things now for you? Is finding those positives that you just spoke about for that first hour and being able to build on that so early on in this season now? Yeah, we've had, we've got three points from two games, two tough games. So a good start for us. A real good effort here for a long time. Disappointed that we lost our way as much, which we will fix. But like this is the Premier League, the lads understand that they're going to be highs and they're going to be lows as a newly promoted side. It's going to be that. Obviously we don't want there to be too many lows, but the lads are finding there. They understand that we had to go. Things didn't go our way. We lost that way a little bit. Let's get on the bus. Let's get ready to Liverpool and see if we can add another three points. You obviously made that change at half time. You had to make the change. How was he doing? Yeah, he's okay, I think. Sort of landed awkwardly. So they're hopeful that there's no sort of any structural damage. It was just a sore one for him. So we're hopeful. It was a big blow, obviously, to have a slip and a goal, a losing number nine, and then a big debate around the handle on the deflection all in the space of 10 minutes was a tough one for us. But no excuse to lose our way the way we did. We need to do better. So let's see what we can do this week, put some work in, and then easy game against Liverpool on Friday. Well, I spoke to Leaf before and he said, there's fire in the bellies now to be able to go out there and get a result against Liverpool, obviously, on home soil. Yeah, we'll always be ready to go again. I don't doubt that. So whether we're the one today, whether we lost, we'll be ready for Liverpool on Friday. We'll give everything. And we'll always, really good group accepting what comes. So we give our best. We accept today's result. We understand that we need to get better and we'll do the same again against Liverpool. We'll give everything we can and see what we can do. And just finally, last couple of days left of this transfer window. How happy are you with the squad that you've got? Are you expecting any more additions? Yeah, we're trying to do a little bit. We are. But really pleased, obviously, the club have had a real good goal, trying to bridge the gap between championship and Premier League. Owners have given an awful lot mark and the recruitment team and everybody's worked their socks off for the manager to change as late as it did as well and not be able to start the recruitment until the new manager was in. There was a lot going on this summer at the football club and everyone's given a lot to get us in this position. You can see that we have quality and we can be a threat. We just need to make sure that we keep picking up points. We keep pushing forward and see what we can do in the next couple of days of the window. Thanks for your time. All the best for Friday. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah, they've got until Tuesday until the transfer window closes if they want to do more business. 13 players in already, 190 million pounds spent. They're giving it a really good go, Ipswich. And you said at the end of the game, Gary. Oh, Gary Neville's joined us, by the way. You said at the end of the game that you feel more confident about Ipswich chances this season off the back of that performance. Even though it was a 5-2 score line, what made you say that? Just the way they played in the first 45-50 minutes. Really well-organised. They had quality going forward. I see what he was saying about the fact that did you say in that part of the game that they lost their way when it's sort of the goals? The second and third goals were... He said he felt that the first goal was probably unlucky with the slip. The second one, he said maybe the laws of the game went against them a little bit. He's not sure about that one. And then he said after that they maybe lacked a bit of emotional discipline. Do you know what I thought? Maybe that, but also maybe because the goals came so quickly it didn't give him chance to be able to change it. Because I thought that maybe you could see five minutes before that the Manchester United started to sort of shift through the gears and there were, you know, Matt Rashford had that one where it had gone across to him, Burma. So I just think that maybe he probably in the future, he said he'll reflect but I think he probably would change when he starts to see that game shifting. Because they played 4-4-2 effectively with NC. So obviously Emerson, the boy up front and at the second half, maybe would have gone to a five earlier or maybe would have, you know, when they start to see that sort of pressure coming from the big teams, maybe he would shift quicker, but the goals came so fast it may be caught in by surprise as well. Yeah, it's an interesting point though, the one about emotional discipline because having had a promotion season where pretty much everything kind of goes your way, coming into the Premier League where you're going to be up against things, you're going to be up against difficult moments more often than not as a promoted side. It's something they're going to have to learn quickly. I think so. And I think as Gazelle said there about the goals coming quickly. I think even individually and collectively, I mean, Jacob Greeds, it nicks off his goal is his foot and goes in the net for a known goal. Then he gives the penalty away about a couple of minutes later. So maybe his head was a little bit foggy from what had happened. So yeah, but again, it's a learning experience. I mean, a lot of these scored with their last time they were in the Premier League. And I guess to learn quickly, another big game and Friday night against Liverpool, which is going to be difficult as well. But I think they definitely showed signs first off. I think they can certainly cope at this level. I mean, they should have been gone in half time, maybe three to up, three one up because they created more than enough opportunities. They just didn't take them, but I think Garry spoke really well there, because I think he said basically about the emotional part of it as well. But also as well, he was quite clever in what he said, because he's obviously the seeding from the handle, which could have gone either way. But again, he will go back to obviously Ipswich and you'll look back at the table and see how they played first off. I think huge confidence from that one. Yeah, that game against Liverpool live on Sky Sports on Friday night, by the way. And the first goal, sort of summed up everything that Ipswich were doing right, tick me that first half an hour. Yeah, of course they were on the front foot and you see for two here. You know, go past Luke Shaw like, you know, what he wasn't there and then they get bodies in the box. And it's always been a thing that, you know, Leith Davis has always wanted to get in the box. Every time he plays, he's up and down. And you know, the control finish was, it was fantastic. Just, you know, just controls it there. This is fun and you know, let's say it's a great finish. They started so well. That first, you know, 35 minutes. It was them all on top. He likes that run, Leith Davis, doesn't he, Darren? He does, it really does. I mean, this here, I mean, he's got the jets on because I didn't know he was this quick, powerful. And this is in season. Yeah. It's so you're going through. I just wonder if you're going to take him maybe an extra touch because he does so well to get in that position. It gets across Luke Shaw. If he could take that extra touch and then Luke Shaw can't touch him at all without bringing him down. But he takes it early and it's a really good save from Lamins. But I mean, again, I didn't know he was that quick. But I thought, first off, especially, he was the best player on the pitch. Yeah, and what does it say about the way that Gary O'Neill set this up, which team up to come and face a Manchester United Saturday? He said before the game, it wasn't quite sure how they were going to line up, particularly off the back of the defeat by Hallsetti. Well, I think what he capitalized on was the lack of pace at the back line for Manchester United because all of it's just best of chances of all wide players getting in behind. I mean, that strike there for him, for Maird, is a fantastic save. And to heal it, because it's slightly behind him as well. But I mean, this one here from Leith, if you can have it again, could he hit it hard? Yeah, he really, really put his foot foot in there. Yeah, it's the same. Having just scored as well, you're thinking it's absolutely perfect for him, just doing exactly the same thing again. Just doesn't quite get a good contact on it, does he? No, and probably an easier chance than the one that he actually scored. And then Chubba Atpum came on and got his first goal for Epps, which was a consolation. This one made it 5-2 in the absolute driving range that was tipping down at Old Trafford at the time. So not huge celebrations from him. It is from self-personal as well, because it's his first goal in the season. There's a strike you want to get off the mark. But again, it's really bad in C-so. Didn't give up. He pressed it. We saw him do it last week, he gets under and we won the ball back and he created a goal. And he does it again there. He protects the right option. And Chubba Atpum came on. He looked a bit rusty. Without giving huge confidence. Coming to Old Trafford. And getting a goal, I'll see. Second game in the season. It's massive for him. Well, as well as Epps, which played Manchester United, particularly in the second half more than equal to them. And went on to win that game by five goals to two. We'll hear what Michael Carrick made of it next here on Sky Sports. If you're enjoying this podcast, we've got lots more from Sky Sports. We think you'll love two. Why not check out the Gary Neville podcast to get Gary's immediate reaction to the biggest games? Transfer talk will keep you up to date with all the comings and goings across the Premier League and beyond. And for WSL fans, there's pitched a pod with Linus Legends, Nikita Paris and Jordan Lobs. Just search for Sky Sports wherever you get your podcasts to start listening. Right now, we're going to get back to the Sky Sports Premier League podcast. Manchester United get their first win of the season in the first home game of this Premier League season. Here's Michael Carrick with Green Mullins team. Michael, congratulations. That felt like a real statement. When? How proud are you of the team? It was a good win. It was a really good win in the end. I think played some really good football. Obviously in a challenging position to go one down. And the biggest thing from today really was the mentality of the boys, you know, to overcome setbacks. You know, we're going to have them every team that ends up being successful as them. It depends how you deal with them and how quickly you deal with them. And we had one last week. We had a little one today and I have to say the way the boys responded and took it on. I think I was really pleased with that, you know, and it's easy to look at the result now and say what a fantastic performance and some great goals and things, but the mentality and the stubbornness and the belief of the boys today really pleased me. Was it also the fact getting that equaliser before the break, that belief to go back out in the second half and obviously get as many goals as you did then? Yeah, I thought we controlled the game pretty well for the most part first half. They had a couple of, they had one break away from our corner, I think, and got in behind our full backs and a couple of times, which was kind of one off instances and then sent it out to make it save. So I thought, but a lot of our play was looking like we kind of on the way to what we wanted it to look and then second half. We kind of put a little bit extra on that and spoke a bit of half time and the boys took it on really well and second half we were fabulous, after say. The goals obviously came in quick succession, but a word on Bruno Fernandez, his third hat trick now for Manchester United, and absolutely just love scoring the goals, doesn't he? Yeah, we'll take a few more there as well. Yeah, he showed his quality today, I fought through the middle of the pitch, particularly Bruno, Yuri, Kobe and Mateus, who played some really good football for us, and we relied on that a bit today, the way we played. And then Bruno is doing well, he's good, he's doing well, he's good at it, he's had a big week and winning awards and bouncing back from last weekend when we all had to kind of take it and accept the feat and learn from it and come back stronger and we've all did that. And Bruno was today, three goals, fantastic performance. Was there a moment in the match that you particularly enjoyed? I don't think there was one, I think there was a lot of positives with the ball without the ball, but again, for me it's the whole mentality, really, of dealing with it and being confident enough and believing enough for each other to trust each other, to put in that performance. And last week was one of those games, didn't go for us, we accept that, and today was a lot better. When you look at the contrast between the two different results from the opening weekend to now, how much can this give you and build on for what you've got in the next couple of weeks? Yeah, we're not getting carried away, you know? We weren't overly down last week. Well, we were down, but we didn't kill ourselves and everything wasn't wrong. It was something we can improve on today. There's still things we can get better at, you know, the result was great. We haven't cracked it, there's a long way to go and we'll get ready for next week because it's a different challenge, a tough game going away next week and we'll look forward to that. We saw you manage to make four changes today and you obviously used some of the players off the bench. How important is squad rotation for you at these early stages, especially in our play in Europe, too? Yeah, definitely. Definitely part of that was planned really going into these first couple of weeks as well to give some plays the minutes ready for what's coming ahead. I think that's important, so largely everyone's been on the pitch pretty much so that Bar and one are two, which I think it's good at this stage to have that. We've got the squad to be able to do that and the boys are ready for it. There's a season with a lot of games, so forward to it. That being said, Chancellor Windows, still a couple of days left. How happy are you with the business so far? Is there still an area as well that you want to strengthen? I think we've done some fantastic business, I think, and I'm sure to be honest with the money that we've spent, I think we've done it very well. So, so far, we're happy. It's obviously you're always looking for if you can do something else or more or whatever, but in making the most of the situation that we have. At the moment, I think the group's in a good place, the spirit's good, the connections there, they're really positive and they want to fight for each other, which is important. Congratulations today, Michael. Thanks for your time. Cheers. See you often. Michael Carrick, given the impression that he's satisfied rather than delighted with that result and that performance. What did you make of his comments on the way that the team played, the way that the team reacted to what happened on that opening weekend? I mean, yeah, I mean, look, first half was a really difficult game and I think the goal was important before half time, but the second half, they were exhilarating, they came out, they really went forward, well, all of them played well. Did you expect them to do that from the get-go? I actually expect them to start, like, a house on fire in just the first 20 minutes. I thought that it would be right up against it, but it did shock me the first 20 minutes of the game, but sometimes that can happen. But the most important thing is that they demonstrated today they're going to score a lot of goals this season. They did do that last season. I just think that Embermo, Kunya, Rashford's obviously back now, Bruno, Cesco, Ahmad, they're good players, they've got a really good group of forwards, not mentioned Mason, Moulton, Doggo in that as well. So I think they've got eight and nine there that can do a really good job. The midfield is yet to be seen, but they've got four players that they've recruited in there, which should give them sort of the base that they want. It's going to be that defense. And I think Michael, I think if he was being ruthless and hard in the interview and being probably more honest, he would say, look, I'd love to bring one or two defenders in. I just said that they're on the podcast. I just wonder whether, I know they've built the forward line last year and then all they've built the midfield this year, but they could just get one or two defenders in now in this next 48 hours and bring some of them maybe advance, some of them money from next transfer window, next August into this one and not spend it next year. It would give Manchester United a Michael Cavaker great chance of repeating what they did last year and getting up the league and having a good Champions League run. So I do think it's important this sort of defense. I would have considered four goals now in two games. And that isn't going to go away. Unfortunately, I think the first half that could have been two or three down and I think, you know, lips which played really well and got great lot of chances. Yeah, it didn't sound from the interview and it might be him, as you say, being sensible or trying to play the political game. But it didn't sound as though they're going to go big again in the rest of this transfer window. So this is looking like the squad Manchester United have got for this season. Yeah, I think so. I think you saw what Carros was saying there that he's been happy with the business that they've done so far. Well, I guess it's saying. I think everyone can see that, you know, the defense is problematic. They need to add some bodies there. You know, I don't think they've got enough to be able to stop bigger teams coming to score against them. You know, they've played whole, they've considered two. They've played Ipswich, they've considered two. So, of course, it could become a problem. But when you've got the attackers in the team that you have and if they can play like this, week in week out, then it will take less of, you know, the way that the defenders are going to have to defend and be. But yet, it's always going to be a problem if, you know, you're conceding and you're conceding. Because as a defender, when you can see goals, you don't want to see that. The forwards may be happy with obviously scoring goals, but the defense are going to be looking at them thinking we need to stop conceding goals and keeping clean sheets. Darren, we're hearing from two former Manchester United players here on how Manchester United looked ahead of this season. What is the way that Gary O'Neill set Ipswich town up against them and the way that they started this game in particular? Tell us about how they're seen from the outside. They're going to be in every single game. I think, as Gary was saying earlier, he expected Manchester United to come and really be on the front for really causing problems and it was the opposite. Ipswich came out, created chances, played with real freedom. So, do you think they saw that vulnerability defensively and targeted it then? I think so. But also, I think he believed in what Ipswich is going to do this season in terms of the attacking players that he's brought in, the way he set the teams up, Nunez in behind Emerson. I think he believes every single week now, Ipswich can be in a game, they can create problems, they can score goals. And defensively, yeah, I think one of two decisions went against them. You think the slip from Nunez, how often is that going to happen? That doesn't happen again. They've got a bit unfortunate with the McGuire-Handball. So, there's another one. So, there's a few areas around the goals where you'd go. It's a little bit unfortunate. But other than that, that first half performance, he'll take the boys back, they'll watch that first half performance and take great confidence from that, thinking that, if we play like this in every single game this season, more than not, we're going to pick up more points and we're going to be in every single game. It's going to be very rare that they get blown out like they did second half. So, I think it was outstanding today. The second goal that Manchester United conceded was deep into injury time. It was pouring with rain. The game was already won. It was five on at that stage. Does it matter too much that they conceded that goal? It'll matter to the Sandro Martinez. It'll matter to the goalkeeper. It'll matter to the goalkeeping coach. It'll matter to the defenders. I played it to be fair in the United team. It did concede goals and we were far better going forward at times than we were defensively, but you used to bug you when you conceded one or two goals because you wanted to try and keep clean sheets. And, yeah, it will annoy them. It will annoy them because I think that, you know, you're defending goal-week in training. You know, the Sandro Martinez from McGuire, Lamonds, the defensive coaches will be looking at it and thinking, we've got to try and establish a defensive unit here, not just the actual defense, but certainly they get put under the most pressure when you conceding goals. And, obviously, the midfield in front of them. So, to concede two goals, we'll really bug them. It's not material in terms of sort of the impact on the day. Manchin, I did won the game comfortably. They were brilliant in the second half. The football was magnificent. And, those fans are going across that fork or back home. 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