Michael Carrick’s ‘dangerous’ verdict after Coventry City continue to be thorn in Middlesbrough’s side.
Coventry City opposition view from CoventryLive as Middlesbrough’s Michael Carrick gives his assessment of his side’s 3-0 home defeat by the Sky Blues.
Michael Carrick believes Coventry City’s start and finish to the game was where it was won and lost against a “dangerous” side who went into the match in a false league position.
The Sky Blues travelled to the Riverside Stadium looking for their first away victory of their Championship campaign and hoping to back up last weekend’s CBS Arena win over Luton Town – a result that lifted them out of the bottom three.
Michael Carrick believes Coventry City’s start and finish to the game was where it was won and lost against a “dangerous” side who went into the match in a false league position.
The Sky Blues travelled to the Riverside Stadium looking for their first away victory of their Championship campaign and hoping to back up last weekend’s CBS Arena win over Luton Town – a result that lifted them out of the bottom three.
Asked if he feels the West Midlands club have been in a false position in the division, the Boro boss told CoventryLive: “I said it before the game, they’re a good team and they have been up there and been challenging, certainly for the last couple of years since I have been here. So we took them for that team and they are dangerous, you know. We knew they are dangerous and that’s how it ended up.
Carrick explained in his post-match press conference how he assessed the game, which saw his team reduced to 10 men after 22 minutes when midfielder Hayden Hackney picked a second yellow card for a foul on Brandon Thomas-Asante. Coventry then took the lead from a Bobby Thomas header before the break and then picked off the home side with two late goals from Haji Wright and Josh Eccles in the space of five minutes to complete the 3-0 scoreline.
