Man United star's f-bomb reaction to insane result

Michael Carrick could live to fight another day as Manchester United manager after a dramatic and chaotic end to their Champions League clash against Roma.

Without a win since September 10 and sitting 17th on the ladder, the future of the manager and numerous players had been under a cloud of uncertainty for some time.

Twenty minutes into the clash at Old Trafford, Carrick’s future looked doomed after Roma took a 2-0 lead, but a second-half penalty from Bruno Fernandes and a Matheus Cunha brace in the final 10 minutes claimed an less than expected 3-2 win for the Red Devils.

As if the United faithful needed any further drama, Cunha was shown a red card after losing his head.

He’d been shown a yellow for taking his shirt off after one of his goal. A silly late challenge on Leonardo Balerdi saw him dismissed for an early shower and left his side desperate to cling to their lead with 10-men.

While the result is not guaranteed to secure Carrick his job, it will help him at least get to the international break later this month.

“We don’t need to save anyone’s job," Fernandes said after the match. “The club needed that win. The players needed that win. It is something we needed as a group of players and staff.

“We have been working so hard to get out of this situation together.

“It has been tough. There has been a lot of speculation in the media.

“A lot of lies around many things that have happened at this club, between me and the manager, like that we have cleared the air. Nothing like that happened.

“The manager took a decision of making myself on the bench because I wasn’t performing. And that’s fair.

“Everyone felt like that was a punishment for the words that I had (after Como). And if it was, it was right.

“The manager makes the decisions. I have to accept it. I have to go forward with that. It doesn’t change the belief I have in the manager, the staff and every player at this club.

“And it doesn’t change my aim to win every f---ing game that I have ahead of me.”

Carrick was in awe after the final whistle but not getting carried away with what the win might mean for him.

“It was a good night. I have to a lot of credit to the players for starters, showing that character and that quality when we needed it and to the supporters. This place does incredible, magical things,” he said.

“I thought we grew into it the first half after giving the goals too easily. We spoke at half time about how this place can change, it only takes one moment and it certainly did that and the boys made the most of every opportunity and were fantastic in the end.

“Listen it’s one game. It depends on what happens next and we’ve got to capitalise on that but tonight the boys showed an awful lot.

“And I thought we came out the second half, unfortunately with Carlos (Baleba) having to go off and Youri (Tielemans) coming on the pitch and I thought he was fantastic, he showed everything that he is as a personality, as a character and with his experience to step in the game like that, and the boys just went with the flow and you could feel how positive it was and it was nice to see this place like that again.”