{"id":318530,"date":"2026-04-14T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=318530"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:44:00","slug":"edwin-van-der-sar-warns-michael-carrick-made-mistake-with-74m-man-utd-star-vs-leeds-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/edwin-van-der-sar-warns-michael-carrick-made-mistake-with-74m-man-utd-star-vs-leeds-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin van der Sar warns Michael Carrick made mistake with \u00a374m Man Utd star vs Leeds | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Van der Sar watched his old side suffer a miserable defeat (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manchester United legend Edwin van der Sar believes Michael Carrick made a mistake starting Benjamin Sesko against Leeds United.<\/p>\n

United were outplayed by Leeds within the first-half of Monday night\u2019s Premier League clash and despite pulling one back through Casemiro within the second period, suffered a 2-1 defeat to their old rivals.<\/p>\n

Carrick was forced into two changes on the night with Kobbie Mainoo picking up an injury and Harry Maguire serving a suspension with Manuel Ugarte and Lisandro Martinez replacing them. Noussair Mazraoui also began at right-back with Diogo Dalot only deemed fit enough for the bench after recent illness.<\/p>\n

Bryan Mbeumo has frequently began through the center since Carrick\u2019s arrival with Sesko thriving in his role as a super-sub with 4 of his five goals under the interim manager coming off the bench.<\/p>\n

The Slovenia international began ahead of Mbeumo on Monday night to little effect with Jaka Bijol having a great night up against his countryman.<\/p>\n

Van der Sar, who won 4 Premier League titles in six years in Manchester, felt Mainoo\u2019s absence on the night played a task in what was a limp performance from the hosts.<\/p>\n

However the Dutch legend also suggested starting Sesko was not the correct call.<\/p>\n

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Sesko laboured up top against Leeds (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018What Carrick has done bringing Mainoo back in, it is crucial for United to have youth coming through,\u2019 van der Sar told Premier League Productions.<\/p>\n

\u2018He represents certain values and it has made him feel appreciated again has made a difference.<\/p>\n

\u2018Casemiro and Ugarte are similar variety of players so I feel they missed him. With Benjamin Sesko up front, I’m unsure if that was the correct choice to go to.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sesko has a return of 10 goals in 29 appearances for United this season as United\u2019s only traditional no9 within the squad.<\/p>\n

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Mainoo also missed the sport through injury (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With United hoping to be back competing with Europe\u2019s elite within the Champions League next season, one other club great in Nicky Butt believes one other striker should be signed to ease the burden.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t think he can carry the club up front on his own, they\u2019ll need one other no9,\u2019 Butt said. \u2018He\u2019s shown he\u2019s got massive potential, great movement, he works his socks off. He can rating a goal and you possibly can see he\u2019s good within the air but he\u2019s not the whole centre-forward for United at that level. He can potentially get there.<\/p>\n

\u2018Once you go into the Champions League, it\u2019s just a distinct kettle of fish. The tempo is completely different, the pressure on it is completely different. You\u2019ve then got to return back and perform within the league, possibly two days later.<\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019re going to should exit and buy a top, top player. I do consider in recruitment there\u2019s no point in going and buying a player who doesn\u2019t improve the squad. You\u2019ve got to go and buy the most effective player. I feel Sesko shall be a great player for United, I don\u2019t think he needs replacing, but someone who is best than him that may lift his game as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Van der Sar watched his old side suffer a miserable defeat (Picture: Getty Images) Manchester United legend Edwin van der Sar believes Michael Carrick made a mistake starting Benjamin Sesko against Leeds United. United were outplayed by Leeds within the first-half of Monday night\u2019s Premier League clash and despite pulling one back through Casemiro within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[21040,14334,18407,18181,5479,23171,1054,2311,6682,22007,795,20687,3826,7749],"class_list":["post-318530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-74m","tag-carrick","tag-der","tag-edwin","tag-football","tag-leeds","tag-man","tag-michael","tag-mistake","tag-sar","tag-star","tag-utd","tag-van","tag-warns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318533,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318530\/revisions\/318533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}