{"id":325526,"date":"2026-04-28T01:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325526"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:53:04","slug":"why-matheus-cunha-misses-man-utd-vs-brentford-reveals-michael-carrick-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/why-matheus-cunha-misses-man-utd-vs-brentford-reveals-michael-carrick-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Matheus Cunha misses Man Utd vs Brentford, reveals Michael Carrick | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Matheus Cunha misses out for Manchester United on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matheus Cunha will not be within the Manchester United squad to face Brentford on Monday night, with Michael Carrick revealing he&#8217;s suffering with a hip issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian began and scored the one goal of the sport as Manchester United beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge of their last outing on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he was not only not within the starting XI because the Red Devils hosted the Bees on Monday, but he wasn\u2019t even on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United\u2019s interim manager, Michael Carrick, revealed that the Brazil international is scuffling with a hip issue.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be anything that can keep him out for long, but was enough to see him miss Monday night\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He had a little bit of a sore hip flexor after the sport against Chelsea,\u2019 Carrick told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was looking quite promising throughout the week. We thought he\u2019d be okay but he didn\u2019t quite progress quick enough. It\u2019s nothing too serious but unfortunately he misses out tonight.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2266357625.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27485164\" alt=\"Manchester United v Aston Villa - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Matheus Cunha has scored eight league goals this season (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Cunha\u2019s absence, Carrick went for a front three of Bryan Mbeumo, Benjamin Sesko and Amad Diallo, with Bruno Fernandes behind.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dorgu also returned to the squad, on the bench after recovering from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the match, Carrick told MUTV: \u2018Patrick\u2019s trying to get back closer to the group in a really small part, which is improbable, because he\u2019s worked so hard over a time period now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So it\u2019ll be good to have him back in and across the group inside the subsequent week or so.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2270786810.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27973658\" alt=\"Manchester United v Leeds United - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Michael Carrick needed to do without Cunha at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carrick was also filled with praise for Kobbie Mainoo, who&#8217;s within the starting XI again on Monday, saying: \u2018He\u2019s got an awful lot of experience in big occasions and massive games at such a young age. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018We just need to get him on the pitch and feeling that rhythm again. He\u2019s done terrific. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Against Chelsea he was pretty much as good as he\u2019s been. I\u2019m conscious to not overload him and overhelp him. If anything he\u2019s done a variety of it himself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: \u2018Unique talent\u2019 \u2013 Man Utd\u2019s \u00a352m transfer goal backed to change into \u2018the brand new Frenkie de Jong\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Manchester United told to sign \u00a343m Tottenham star to achieve \u2018the subsequent level\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Mohamed Salah injury update as blow threatens to finish Liverpool profession early<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matheus Cunha misses out for Manchester United on Monday (Picture: Getty Images) Matheus Cunha will not be within the Manchester United squad to face Brentford on Monday night, with Michael Carrick revealing he&#8217;s suffering with a hip issue. The Brazilian began and scored the one goal of the sport as Manchester United beat Chelsea 1-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[6193,14334,21918,5479,1054,11641,2311,7491,943,20687],"class_list":["post-325526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-brentford","tag-carrick","tag-cunha","tag-football","tag-man","tag-matheus","tag-michael","tag-misses","tag-reveals","tag-utd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325526","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=325526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325529,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325526\/revisions\/325529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}