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12-03-2011, 06:46 AM | #101 |
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Re: Michael Carrick
Why Michael Carrick must shine for Manchester United against Arsenal
As the England midfielder prepares for the FA Cup tie against the Gunners, the pressure is on him to prove his worth Rio Ferdinand will always remember his first day at Manchester United and the childlike excitement of pulling on the strip. "I was thinking to myself: 'These are Man United socks, this is how they feel. This is how the shirt feels, these are their shorts.'" Then he went out for his first training session and, bang, Roy Keane was screaming in his face. Ferdinand had made the mistake of taking the safe option, playing a nice, easy pass to his nearest team-mate. He remembers Keane "went mental and barked: 'Pass the ****ing ball forward.' I looked at him, his face all contorted, and he goes: 'It's ****ing easy going sideways, pass it forward.'" Keane was always good at cutting down to size those he suspected did not fully understand what it meant to play for the club. Dwight Yorke experienced something similar, also in his first training game, when Keane booted the ball at him, deliberately too hard, and the new signing miscontrolled it. "Welcome to United," Keane hissed with that Tommy DeVito stare. "Cantona used to kill them." For Yorke, the lesson was to understand his new surroundings. For Ferdinand, there was a message about what was expected of players at Old Trafford. "You have to try to affect the game rather than wait for others to do it," is how Ferdinand remembers it. "I learned from Roy that you cannot develop from being a good player to a top player if you play safe all the time. You've got to take chances. At United everyone takes responsibility." All of which brings us to the player who inherited Keane's No16 shirt and the story of a man who at one point always seemed to want the ball and knew what to do with it, an elegant, graceful footballer who became the team's key distributor and won votes for player-of-the-season awards. We can only hazard a guess about what Keane would make of Michael Carrick's deterioration over the past 18 months and the way, going into United's FA Cup quarter-final against Arsenal, the time may be approaching when we are entitled to wonder at what point a long-term slump begins to resemble permanent decline. Carrick is not the only member of Sir Alex Ferguson's squad to perplex United's supporters but he is, perhaps, the one who provokes the most intense frustration. In the 3-1 defeat at Anfield last Sunday he looked like a confidence player who had lost all sense of what he had to be confident about. Eleven days earlier, in a Champions League tie against a prosaic Marseille, he completed a mere four passes forwards, 17 square and nine backwards. The following week he agreed a new three-year contract and the latest cover of Red Issue fanzine shows him signing the paperwork, alongside the chief executive, David Gill, a target of sustained criticism for different reasons. The caption is a mixture of irony and brutality: "'Capable Hands' Signs Incapable Feet." A speech bubble has them both saying: "I can't believe I'm still getting away with this." The frustration is because a player of Carrick's gifts – his vision and ability on the ball, with either foot – should be dominating games or at least having a telling impact as the norm rather than the exception. Instead, it is nearly 14 months since Carrick scored and, at an age when he should be reaching the point of maximum expression, his international career now seems to have been faded out. Carrick, who turns 30 in July, did not kick a ball in the World Cup but has still become one of its victims, no longer in the reckoning after a strangely unfulfilled decade of serving his time on the training pitches, idling away the hours on all those long trips away and, for the most part, watching matches from the periphery. Carrick has been involved in 56 squads over 10 years but has a mere 13 starts to show for it, with nine more caps as a substitute and no goals. For United, the wider issue here perhaps is of a midfield that invites allegations of decline. Paul Scholes is 37 later this year, younger than Ryan Giggs but not so mobile and with a longer history of injury issues. Beyond a powerful shot, Darron Gibson has demonstrated little to show he belongs at this level. Anderson has been too erratic to justify what Porto's official accounts reveal is a €30m (£25.8m) price tag, Darren Fletcher's development has faltered a little this season and, as for Owen Hargreaves, that is a sad story of risk and waste that is not going to have a happy ending. United bought a crock and, for their money, they got a crock. With Scholes now taking a deeper position, United are missing an advanced central midfielder who can play the killer pass and contribute a decent share of goals. Ferguson does not have a Cesc Fábregas or a Luka Modric or a Rafael van der Vaart. United are the Premier League's top scorers with 63 goals, but only three from central midfield – two via Fletcher, one from Scholes. In his time at the club, Carrick has scored 17 times in 213 appearances. Anderson has two in 121. Can Carrick still be that man? At times Ferguson has had his own misgivings. It was Carrick's mistake that led to Ivica Olic scoring Bayern Munich's first goal at Old Trafford last April when United were eliminated from the Champions League. Ferguson was furious and Carrick was removed from the team. Yet Carrick's new contract demonstrates there is support for him within the club. "He has been outstanding since joining us from Tottenham in 2006," Ferguson declared on the press release. "He is a true professional and it is great he has committed his future to the club." Kind words, and yes, anyone who has followed Carrick's career from West Ham United to Tottenham Hotspur and United should appreciate this is a footballer with rare vision and football intelligence. Alternatively, Carrick is at risk of becoming the safety-first man, a sideways footballer not emboldened enough to impose his personality on a game of football. The sport is about more than caressing a pass over 12 yards, it is about drive and will and unless Carrick can reinvent himself he is in danger of two things. One is losing the fans' trust when it comes to assembling a new-look midfield for when the lights go out on Scholes and Giggs. The other is that he continues to drift to the edges in the years when his output should be at its greatest. You know the one: ticks along, gets five or six in the match ratings; the guy who would have brought Keane close to spontaneous combustion. Guardian |
12-03-2011, 01:33 PM | #102 |
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Re: Michael Carrick
memang benar United saat ini tidak punya opsi lain selain Carrick....
penampilannya musim ini memang menurun, tidak seperti musim2 sebelumnya.
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12-03-2011, 02:08 PM | #103 |
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Semoga Carrick segera kembali ke habitatnya(baca:United)
kok skrng level permainannya kayak lagi main di liga arab ajja . . Semoga dengan terus dapet ksmptan dari Opa SAF . . permainannya bisa kembali seperti 2 musim yg lalu . . Amin . . Semngat Carrick . .
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17-03-2011, 10:39 AM | #104 |
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Carrick Kapok Jadi Bek
Editor: Hery Prasetyo MANCHESTER, KOMPAS.com - Gelandang Manchester United (MU), Michael Carrik, berharap dirinya tak diminta untuk menjadi bek setelah lini belakang timnya mengalami krisis. Carrick punya pengalaman buruk saat didorong menjadi bek musim lalu. Saat itu, ia gagal mengawal pertahanan MU sehingga kalah 0-3 dari Fulham. "Bermain di belakang memang tak disinggung di ruang ganti. Aku berkata kepada (asisten pelatih) Mike Phelan, 'Aku tidak suka itu lagi'," kata Carrick kepada MUTV. "Sangat tidak menyenangkan tentunya untuk mendapat cedera. Akan sangat mengecewakan ketika Anda berada dalam posisi yang sama. Tapi, kami tak putus asa saat ini dan semoga aku tak akan diplot menjadi bek lagi," harapnya. Carrick kemungkinan dipersiapkan untuk menambal lini pertahanan, setelah MU ditinggal beberapa pemainnya akibat cedera. Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans, dan Nemanja Vidic sudah absen karena harus menjalani pemulihan cedera. Sementara Rafael da Silva dan John O'Shea menyusul ketiganya akibat mendapat cedera saat MU mengalahkan Olympique Marseille di leg kedua 16 besar Liga Champions, Selasa (15/3/2011). MU kini menyisakan Chris Smalling, Wes Brown, Fabio da Silva, dan Patrice Evra di lini pertahanan. Untuk itu, Carrick kemungkinan akan dijadikan pelapis jika salah satu dari pemain tersebut terganjal masalah. Source : http://bola.kompas.com |
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CARRICK: DON'T STOP BELIEVING
SportingLife - Michael Carrick has revealed the key to Manchester United's repeated ability to drag points from the most unpromising of situations is never to stop believing. Struggling with 11 men, United's hopes of victory against Bolton at Old Trafford on Saturday appeared to have disappeared when they were reduced to 10 following the dismissal of Jonny Evans 15 minutes from time. Yet they not only managed to survive allowing Matthew Taylor a free header which should have been converted, United went on to collect maximum points thanks to Dimitar Berbatov's 21st goal of the season. At the same time, nearest rivals Arsenal were dropping two points at West Brom to hand the title initiative back to the Red Devils heading into an international break that has come at just the right time for Sir Alex Ferguson and his men. "You have to keep believing and trusting each other," said Carrick. "Experience helps because we have done it a few times before. "Going into the last five minutes you keep telling each other to be patient and that a chance will come. Then it is about putting it away." Berbatov was the right man at the right time, scoring his 21st goal of the season but his first since January 25, since when he has started only four out of United's 12 matches. That statistic is explained partly by the improved form of Wayne Rooney but also the continuing impact of Javier Hernandez, the man Ferguson "sacrificed" at half-time after it became apparent Wes Brown could not continue, leaving the hosts short of height to combat Bolton's significant aerial threat. "Dimitar is doing very well," said United assistant boss Mike Phelan. "He has done everything we have asked of him and is working hard. "It is never easy to come off the bench. But he kept his focus and got us the goal." Phelan was thrust into the role of pitch-side director as Ferguson began his five-match touchline ban. The wisdom of accepting a guilty verdict on Thursday and asking for the suspension to begin immediately was shown by the ease with which Ferguson was able to communicate with the bench by telephone from his seat in the directors' box. It is an advantage he will not have when United head to West Ham in a fortnight, or face Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on April 16. Phelan does not see the ban as a particularly big issue, anyway. "To be perfectly truthful all you do is react to what is going on in the game," he said. "The work has been done and the players know exactly what is expected of them. The communication was good but we know exactly what each other is thinking anyway." Ferguson made a point of stressing how well his side have come through a testing period of five games, which started badly with successive defeats at Chelsea and Liverpool, but ended so well, with progress on three fronts. In addition, there was the unexplained presence of Douglas Costa in the directors' box. United officials were unable to shed any light on why the 20-year-old Brazilian was present, although Costa was surrounded by enough advisors to suggest he had not merely excused himself from duty with Shakhtar Donetsk to watch the team so heavily linked with him a couple of years ago because he fancied a day out. Any signing cannot come until the summer of course. In the meantime United must hope Brown's fresh injury and the three-match suspension Jonny Evans will now serve for his challenge on Stuart Holden will be negated by the return of skipper Nemanja Vidic and full-back Rafael ahead of the West Ham trip. That game is followed immediately by the first leg of United's all-England Champions League quarter-final with Chelsea. It is a packed programme. But Carrick is not complaining, even if he would prefer not to be deployed as an emergency central defender again. "It is not ideal playing centre-back but I have no problems with it if that is what's required," said the England midfielder. "At the start of the season we set out to try and ensure every game would be big at this stage. "We wanted to be involved in all the competitions and we have achieved that, which shows we are doing something right. "It is hard to say how significant this day will be at this point in the season but it does feel like a big result."
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jarang-jarang nih nemu carrick XDD
bneran kapok jadi bek?? yeah~ berjuanglah buat sebulan kedepan masnya.. Quote:
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Michael Carrick: Gelar Ke-19 Akan Menjadi Spesial
Michael Carrick mengungkapkan gelar Liga Primer ke-19 akan membawa arti lebih bagi pemain United dan fans. Gelandang Manchester United Michael Carrick menyatakan bahwa memenangkan gelar Liga Primer Inggris musim ini akan menjadi bagian dari sejarah. Dengan gelar ke-19, United akan mengambil alih posisi Liverpool yang dahulu disebut sebagai pengoleksi gelar Liga Inggris terbanyak. "Gelar satu ini akan menjadi sangat spesial. Gelar lain memiliki arti spesial dalam hal lain, tetapi untuk semua orang di klub dan juga fans, gelar yang ini akan lebih memiliki arti bagi mereka," ujar Carrick kepada United Reviews. "Anda dapat melihat bagaimana Alex Ferguson menyukai tantangan. Dia telah banyak melalui hal seperti ini, dia mengetahui secara pasti apa yang akan diperlukan." "Terkadang dia akan mengatakan sesuatu yang membuat anda sangat fokus, di lain waktu dia melakukan pendekatan dengan cara yang berbeda. Anda hanya harus mempercayai keputusan pelatih di setiap situasi." http://www.goal.com/id-ID/news/1108/...enjadi-spesial
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Vidic-Giggs Sanjung Carrick
Manchester - Wayne Rooney bukan satu-satunya pemain yang paling bersinar saat Manchester United mengalahkan Chelsea kemarin. Namun Michael Carrick juga dinilai juga memainkan peranan penting. Rooney tampil sebagai pahlawan usai menciptakan gol tunggal yang memberikan kemenangan MU 1-0 di partai leg I perempafinal Liga Champions di kandang Chelsea. Puji-puji pun dilayangkan terhadap pesepakbola berusia 25 tahun itu. Meski demikian, dari Carrick lah gol tersebut berawal. Geladang Inggris ini mengirim umpan panjang ke sisi sayap yang diterima Ryan Giggs. Bola lantas dioper kepada Rooney yang akhirnya mencetak gol. Bukan hanya itu, Carrick juga tercatat membuat sejumlah intersepsi penting dan tekel-tekel cermat. "Dari sudut pandang pemain, Michael adalah pemain yang amat penting buat kami. Dia membawa banyak keseimbangan buat tim - dia penghubung antara pertahanan dan penyerangan," puji Nemanja Vidic seperti diwartakan ManUtd.com "Mungkin dia memang bukan pesepakbola yang aktraktif - dia tidak sering memperagakan trik-trik tapi untuk tim dia memainkan peranan penting. Dia seorang pemaintop dan punya banyak hasrat untuk bermain," imbuh si kapten. Carrick mengalami start lambat di awal musim ini. Namun ia berhasil mengembalikan performanya dan kembali menjadi pilihan utama di skuad Red Devils. "Michael adalah pemain berkelas. Aku merasa dia sudah tampil luar biasa dalam beberapa pekan terakir, ini jujur," timpal Ryan Giggs. "Dia punya kaki yang bagus, dia bisa mengumpan jarak jauh dan dekat. Tapi dia juga mampu bertahan dan membantu keempat defender di belakang," demikian kata Giggs. sumber _______________ umpan2 jauhnya makin matang pemain satu ini.. |
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Melawan chelsea jadi salah satu Penampilan terbaik yg pernah gw liat dari seroang Carrick selama berkostum man united
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Excellent over the two games.... good job Carrick...
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