Como demolish dismal Manchester United to pile more pressure on Carrick

Manchester United conceded in the second minute and never recovered as Como scored three more in the second half, coasting to a 4-1 victory In sight of the Alps, a boat ride from George Clooney’s villa, Manchester United will hope, in what has been a terrible start to the season, that things do not get any worse. They can’t – for the team’s prospects, and Michael Carrick’s job security, because witnessed here by Lake Como was a humiliation of the three-times European champions by Cesc Fàbregas’s competition debutants, as United suffered their worst defeat in continental football since 1994.

By 57 minutes this was over, as Como were 3-0 ahead, and Nico Paz had destroyed Carrick’s men with a scintillating display featuring two goals and the assist for Tasos Douvikas’s strike. When Como attacked and defended it was as a unit supremely drilled by Fàbregas. Carrick, on this and the evidence of only two wins all term, is a coach struggling at elite level. Como’s supremacy in the most famous victory of their 119 years came despite 62 total