{"id":16919,"date":"2026-01-16T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=680577"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:58:10","slug":"i-dont-feel-the-pressure-carrick-confident-ahead-of-man-city-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/i-dont-feel-the-pressure-carrick-confident-ahead-of-man-city-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t feel the pressure,\u201d Carrick confident ahead of Man City clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Carrick has played down any suggestion of mounting pressure as he prepares for his first Manchester derby as Manchester United manager, insisting he remains fully focused on driving the club forward.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his pre-match press conference ahead of the highly anticipated clash against Manchester City, Carrick made it clear that outside noise will not affect his approach. \u201cThey\u2019re not putting more pressure on me. I don\u2019t feel that,\u201d Carrick said, addressing questions about expectations surrounding his role. \u201cWe want to be near the top. I\u2019m eager to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former United midfielder, who took charge on an interim basis following the club\u2019s managerial change, is set to face one of the toughest challenges in English football against Pep Guardiola\u2019s City side. Despite the magnitude of the fixture, Carrick appeared calm and composed, projecting confidence rather than anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Carrick has played down any suggestion of mounting pressure as he prepares for his first Manchester derby as Manchester\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[420,4507,3686,3918,1823,3796,3800,1205,249,2907],"class_list":["post-16919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-carrick","tag-david-ornstein","tag-english-premier-league","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-derby","tag-manchester-united","tag-michael-carrick"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}