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Carrick certainly wasn't a passanger. It was just very easy to overlook his defensive efforts, seeing as he doesn't charge around the pitch like a pitball - instead using positional sense and timing to intercept passes.
It was effective. While he may not have been one of our most important players last season, we needed somebody to do that else we simply wouldn't have won the league.
He breaks up play and spreads the ball about, letting us keep our passing flow and plays deep enough so that our attacking players can concentrate on attacking. Fantastic option to have a player like that for a team like ours.
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