Man United vs Roma LIVE: Champions League team news and updates with Michael Carrick on brink

When the Champions League draw pitted Manchester United against Roma, the more nostalgic were transported back 20 seasons.

To a night that, ultimately, proved a staging post on Sir Alex Ferguson’s way to conquering Europe the following season.

To a European Cup win that, in its margin, has only been bettered in United’s history by the Busby Babes’ 10-0 demolition of Anderlecht in 1956.

To the only time in 464 appearances for United that Michael Carrick scored twice.

In 2007, United faced a Roma side that included the World Cup winners Francesco Totti and Daniele de Rossi. They thrashed them 7-1.

“A magical night,” Carrick recalled. “It was one of the best nights, one of the best games, one of the best atmospheres I’ve been fortunate enough to witness.

So the fact that I scored a couple and that was very unusual gives me great, great memories, but it was more the actual whole the emotion of the night. It was a special one.”

Now, nine without a win, beaten in each of the last three, Carrick could do with recapturing some of the magic he and his teammates produced to inflict Roma’s record European defeat.

Manchester United’s nine-game winless run is their longest stretch without a victory since 1988. Their results since victory over Sabah in September have been:

• Man Utd 0-1 Man City
• Man Utd 2-3 Brighton (Carabao Cup third round)
• Fulham 1-1 Man Utd
• Man Utd 1-1 Tottenham
• Atletico Madrid 2-0 Man Utd (Champions League)
• Leeds 1-1 Man Utd
• Como 4-1 Man Utd (Champions League)
• Man Utd 0-3 Bournemouth
• Chelsea 2-0 Man Utd

Michael Carrick has urged the Manchester United fans to create a “stand up” and be there for his players as they attempt to end a nine-game winless run.

United were booed off following their last game at Old Trafford, following defeat against Bournemouth, and Carrick says his players must also play their part but giving the fans something to shout about.

“When you think about the special nights and you think about the feelings and the emotions, a lot of the time it builds before kick-off and you feel it going into the game, in the warm-up and when the game starts,” he told MUTV.

“It rolls all the way through the game, and we need that. We’ve got to play our part for sure, and we’ve got to give the fans something to get excited about.

“That’s when you’re tested, in these tough times, and for them to stand up and be there for us, we’ve got to make that both ways.”

Bryan Mbeumo insists the Manchester United squad still trust each other after Lisandro Martinez was needlessly red carded in Saturday’s defeat to Chelsea to pile more pressure on Michael Carrick.

“A lot of disappointment,” said Mbeumo on Saturday. “I thought we played a solid game, a good first half especially.

“And everything was good, the mentality, the work-rate. I think (a win is) going to come.

“I feel like everyone linked together, even some who made mistakes, we were there for him [Martinez]. When someone did great, everyone was there to get something from this.

“We still trust everyone. With the man down, we still had some frustrations at the end. But I think we have done everything as a team.

“Maybe we just missed some chances. We could have been up early in the game, but that’s a positive to take out of this game.”

Manchester United will again be without Patrick Dorgu and Luke Shaw. The England left-back will be out until the international break but the Denmark international is back in training, though he will not be involved against Roma. Carrick is waiting to see when forward Marcus Rashford is fit to return. “We’ll just have to see day by day how he keeps improving,” he added.

Kobbie Mainoo is back fit, however.

Michael Carrick has insisted he does not doubt Lisandro Martinez’s commitment to Manchester United – even after the defender launched a verbal attack on sporting director Jason Wilcox and was then sent off in Saturday’s defeat to Chelsea.

“I’ve got no concerns about commitment at all,” Carrick said. “Things happen in football. Sometimes you do things, sometimes you make a decision, sometimes you make mistakes, sometimes goes well for you. But the commitment is not an issue for sure.”

Captain Bruno Fernandes has also given an explosive post-match interview recently, criticising Carrick’s tactics after the 4-1 loss to Como.

But Carrick said he is not worried about the image that his squad lack discipline, adding: “The dressing room is a good, good place, so perceptions are a funny thing.

“They can they can they can make things look all sorts of different ways and think about all sorts of different things. The commitment of the players to the club, to me, to each other – I don’t question that at all. We need to play better, we can make better decisions, but commitment’s not a thing at all.”

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has said Lisandro Martinez’s red card against Chelsea on Saturday “selfish” and “all ego”.

A positive performance from Michael Carrick’s side was undermined when Martinez received two yellow cards in as many minutes with his side 1-0 down at Stamford Bridge, with the defender also conceding a penalty for his reckless challenge in the box.

“He’s cost them points, but he’s done it for a manager that’s backing him, that’s supported him and has really gone out of his way for him,” Gerrard said on The Overlap daily.

“It was selfish. It was all ego, thinking he’s all macho. But the disappointing thing for me is he’s walking off the pitch shaking his head as if it’s the referee’s fault, as if he’s the victim.”

Asked whether Martinez, who was critical of the United hierarchy last month and is out of contract in the summer, is attempting to engineer a January exit, Gerrard said: “That’s possible as well.

“I’ve seen that happen before, so I wouldn’t be surprised by that. It wouldn’t surprise me in his world, when he’s on his dining table at night with his family and his agents and whoever he spends his time with, that he’s thinking, I want out of here sharpish, and probably the best way for me to do that is to cause problems, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. His performances in the last couple of weeks have been shocking.”

It’s crunch time – once again – for Manchester United and Michael Carrick as they bid to end their nine-game winless run against Roma in the Champions League. Defeat to Chelsea on Saturday was a third loss in a row in all competitions and Carrick’s job appears to be hanging by a thread as United head into back-to-back home games against Roma and Aston Villa before the international break, with Carrick very much still fighting for his future.

The pressure is on ahead of the arrival of the Italian side, who are unbeaten domestically in Serie A this season.