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Manchester United's Michael Carrick: 'We must kill teams off early'

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Michael Carrick wants his Manchester United teammates to make more positive starts to matches and always be on top of the opposition.

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick has urged his teammates to raise their game and start "killing teams off" early.

The 31-year-old is happy with the clean sheet the Reds Devils kept in their 1-0 home win against West Ham United on Wednesday, but wants his side to be more dominating in matches.

"It has been a while," The Mirror quotes Carrick as saying. "We had a spell, about a year or two ago, when we were starting games really well and killing teams off really early.

"We want to get back to that, because Old Trafford is a difficult place to play when you go a goal down. We want to make it that way, certainly in the games that are to come because going a goal down has made things a lot harder for us than they should have been.

"Keeping a clean sheet gives us something to build on in the future."

United are currently a point clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table.

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