Carrick: Kobbie has so much quality and composure
Manchester United picked up a huge three points at Stamford Bridge yesterday, beating Chelsea away to go 10 points clear of them, to further boost our chances of playing Champions League football next season.
While Bruno Fernandes was named Man of the Match, Kobbie Mainoo put in a great performance in midfield, and after the game Michael Carrick sung his praises.
I thought that was the best Kobbie’s played, certainly since I’ve been back here. To step up and put so many phases or sides to his game tonight. I thought he looked so composed and so calm, he had a real presence about him, defended well. It’s not easy when you’ve got good players around you and it was a good battle between him and Cole Palmer. So he had to be right at it tonight but as you saw he had so much quality and composure in a tough environment really, to show us what he can do.
Mainoo had been a question mark earlier this week and the team had to make last minute chances to the defence following the suspensions of Harry Maguire and Lisandro Martinez, before the late injury to Leny Yoro which brought Ayden Heaven in to the starting XI.
Kobbie didn’t train an awful lot really. He only did a little bit on Thursday and a little bit more yesterday. It wasn’t an awful lot so credit to him for stepping into that one. Ayden, credit to him. Coming in as a young player, for one. He’s not played a lot of football recently – he played for England a couple of weeks ago, but to come into that environment that’s not something you can take for granted. Credit to him. We say the same things to young players all the time and sometimes they look at you as if to say ‘good one’ but in terms of training every day and looking after yourself and being ready, because you never know when that comes. He probably wouldn’t have thought it would come at this moment, because of how it’s gone but he prepared and he took it in his stride magnificently well.
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