Man United 4-4 Aston Villa: Red Devils set Premier League record in chaotic Old Trafford draw
The 20-time English champions found themselves both 2-0 and 4-2 behind on home soil but managed to fight back on both occasions to claim a point in a 4-4 draw. Man United have therefore become the first team to trail by two goals and level twice in the same Premier League fixture.
Alysson and Nicolas Jackson scored to send Villa two goals ahead inside four minutes, before Bruno Fernandes and Youri Tielemans levelled it up at 2-2 late in the first period. Man United have entered the international break in the relegation zone, though, sitting 18th in the Premier League table, claiming only eight points from 10 matches.
"It's a tough one to digest in some ways because, you know, there are moments which end up being key moments," Carrick told Sky Sports News after the match. "We're kind of beating ourselves a little bit in many ways, at the moment, which is disappointing and it's making things difficult.
But, at the same point, the rest of the game of football has been very good, for the most part. We didn't give them an awful lot.
They didn't create an awful lot and I thought we created a lot, we had a lot of control. A lot of progression in the game, a lot of moments an pressure.
So, to end the game like we have, I'm just disappointed we haven't won, to be honest. We did more than enough to win the game today and I'm really disappointed that we haven't taken all three points.
We attacked the box well and had moments, we had chances. Coming from a place where you're 2-0 down and not in a good place, the boys played well, it was just moments.
Apart from that, a lot of the game was how we'd want it, but goals make a big difference. To finish the game like that, we kept going, kept believing.
We managed to pull it back in midweek [against Roma] and we've pulled it back, to a degree, today. So there's some character in that dressing room."
