hanuma your opinions on Carrick are just that. Opinions. Very irritating when you put them forward as if they were facts.
And if anyone "couldn't be more wrong", it's yourself.
Carrick has held his place in the Premiership Champions's starting XI for two consecutive seasons, in a very competitive position with players like Hargreaves and Anderson second choice to him. Considering Ferguson has won 10 league titles, I have a sneaky suspicion that he might know what he's doing...
And Carrick's pass completion rate is around 80%. Now I reckon you'll counter with "that's because most of his passes are sideways or backwards", but that makes your other argument redundant, that he loses possession too often or that he chooses the hollywood pass too often. It's not as if Lampard (or Gerrard even moreso) hits his target every time he attempts a long pass, so why does Carrick get barracked when he finds his targets as often as the other players...
And as for Carrick's defensive qualities being found wanting - bollocks. He reads the game, just because he doesn't make big blocks too often or slide in to make tackles doesn't make him poor defensively. The number of interceptions he's made this season is pretty huge. And even when Ferguson chooses 4-5-1 it's Carrick that plays as the deeper of the 3 CMs, not Hargreaves.
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