""I'm absolutely blown away by what I've seen in eight days, because you can't believe how low and how bad it was a few weeks ago in terms of some of the performances that we've seen," he said on The Gary Neville Podcast. "There are a number of things that have changed, the intensity, the compactness, the aggression of the defending, their willingness to get behind the ball together and be difficult to beat and dig in when you're in difficult moments of the game.""
""[Carrick has] definitely instilled a simplicity to it in the last two weeks, in the last two games, that I like about it. It's my favourite system. We've talked about it a lot, the idea of a talented player playing off a striker, two wide players narrowing in midfield, a back four that's really aggressive. It's been a huge turn.""
Manchester United won 3-2 at Arsenal under caretaker Michael Carrick, with Matheus Cunha scoring a late 87th-minute winner. United fell behind to an Lisandro Martinez own goal before Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu put United ahead and Mikel Merino equalised. The victory marked United's first Premier League comeback win away at Arsenal since February 2005. Gary Neville described a marked improvement in intensity, compactness, defending aggression and tactical simplicity under Carrick. Neville called the turnaround remarkable and cautioned against overreaction. Roy Keane questioned Carrick's managerial credentials despite the recent positive results.
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