After leading Manchester United to a 5-2 home victory over Ipswich in the second round of the Premier League, manager Erik ten Hag Carrick attended a press conference. This article covers the second half of the press conference.

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Michael, you've previously talked about trying to get the team to play the right way and in the right style. Clearly, scoring five goals at home is an impressive achievement, and that doesn't happen often in recent years. What I mean is, how important is it not just to win, but to win in style and score plenty of goals in this weekend's match?

Well, I mean, we absolutely cannot take that for granted. You know, it's very difficult to get a win at this level, so of course, if you can get a win in this fashion and style, that will certainly have a positive impact on the whole team. I think it gives you extra confidence and belief, as long as we don't become complacent or apathetic. We can't think that just because we lost last week, everything is a disaster, or suddenly we win big and start thinking we're the best team in the world again. Football opinion changes very quickly, and we won't think like that.

But make no mistake, this victory gives you confidence. I think, looking back at dealing with defeats, we really had to fight hard to get the win today. It wasn't easy or straightforward, you know, we had to find a way to win the match. And then, based on that, you score goals and get the final result. So that's probably what I'm most satisfied with today: the way we eventually won this match despite the adversity, and these young lads will certainly benefit greatly from that.

I want to interject—there was a time it seemed like Marcus (Rashford) might go to Barcelona, but when that transfer didn't happen, did you ever predict this moment today? He's essentially made a fresh start at Old Trafford after two years, and given the high player valuations in today's world, for such a high-caliber player to join the club on a free transfer is like signing a major new contract.

Well, listen, he's absolutely bringing tremendous energy to our team, there's no denying that. I'd known him for some time, when I first came back to work here he wasn't here, but now he's back. So I think he's really making the most of this opportunity for us, and for himself, to really show what he can do. With the chance to play here, he's one of ours, playing here is like fulfilling his own dream, and he's very hungry for success and winning here.

So whatever happened in the past, I think that's history and part of this club's story. Players come and go, sometimes they leave and come back, or some players might be about to leave but ultimately stay. What matters is always what you do next and what your true intentions are. I have to say, since he came back, his performances have been absolutely outstanding, really excellent. It's great to see him starting for us today.

Michael, clearly the transfer window has only about 48 hours left to close. Are you expecting or hoping to bring in further additions to strengthen the squad in the coming days?

To be honest, it's always hard to say for certain, especially when there's so little time left. I think given our current situation and the transfer business we've completed, I'm very happy with the results. I think we're now a better collective, a stronger squad, and potentially an even stronger team overall. You know, having Marcus back and integrated with us is like signing a powerful new player.

So at this level, we're really quite satisfied with our current situation. Of course, we're always open, and if there's any other suitable candidate who could strengthen the team, we'd certainly be ready to try, so I wouldn't completely rule that out. But in the current situation, we need to wait and see how things develop.

Following up on that question, do you feel we've reached a point where this team has tremendous attacking potential and can score many goals—do you think that at some point in the future, a strong attack will become our best defense?

That depends on the circumstances—one match in a week doesn't determine everything, you know, I'm not getting too excited. Yes, I think our team, squad, and player list have a group of players who are completely capable of creating chances, scoring goals, and sharing the burden of goalscoring, and we did very well in sharing the goal-scoring burden last season. So you have to find different ways of playing. You know, at certain times, we need to be better in collective defending, and improve even further in our overall defensive organization. I think at this stage, we've been doing quite well in collective defending, and we've also found many different tactical approaches and defensive methods.

I think today we were particularly good at high pressing, you know, successfully winning the ball back and executing some high-quality transitions, showing great danger in different aspects, which is really very encouraging. You know, sometimes we have many players flooding into the box to poach chances when creating opportunities inside and outside the opponent's box; sometimes we use quick counterattacks to fully exploit attacking space and create greater threat through goals like Brian's (Mbeumo's).

So we have very good variety in our attacking system, and I think clearly we need to figure out the right balance and make the right choices. As we've shown, we can use slightly different approaches up front, and many of our forwards can also play different roles. Today was slightly different because we had Kobe (Mainoo) dropping deeper, while Brian and Marcus played higher. So it depends on how we find that right balance. But one thing is absolutely certain: this squad definitely possesses abundant creative ability and a continuous source of goals.

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