Michael Carrick has urged his Manchester United squad to remain grounded and maintain their humility following their remarkable triumph over Premier League leaders Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, where Matheus Cunha's dramatic late strike sealed a sensational victory. United have now defeated the league's top two sides in Carrick's opening pair of matches as manager, propelling them to fourth place with 15 fixtures remaining this campaign. This positions Champions League qualification firmly within reach, yet the 44-year-old is determined not to get ahead of himself.

Carrick has made an instant impression since taking over from Ruben Amorim, with these victories delivering a powerful message about their ambitions this term after a troubling December spell. One of the former United midfielder's key attributes has been his composed approach, and he has no intention of abandoning that now. Whilst the travelling supporters celebrated a result that damaged Arsenal's title aspirations, Carrick concentrated on the internal benefits rather than any external message to rival clubs, remaining focused on ensuring his players stay level-headed.

"I think it's more about the feeling that gives us as a group," he said. "And the players and certainly the supporters, you know? That's my concern, how that can bring us together and lift us in a real positive manner.

"I'm not getting carried away. We've got some bigger games coming up, because every next game's the bigger game. So we're not getting carried away, we've got really important things coming up that we need to kind of keep improving with.

"Two massive games. There's a lot of emotion and a lot of energy and a lot of confidence that you can take from that, but be humble and understand how we've got these results, that's really important moving forward."

United supporters were singing 'we're gonna win the league' as they departed the Emirates, but Carrick remained unfazed when informed of this during his post-match press conference, instead emphasising the importance of concentrating on next week's Fulham clash rather than being drawn into examining the broader situation.

"I know from our perspective it's just moving forward to the next game," he explained. "It's been less than two weeks that we've been together, so it's just keep getting good habits really, and good routines. The boys have been fantastic with that.

"I don't think we can look too far ahead. We certainly won't be anyway. We'll finish where we finish by the results we get. I know that's kind of obvious, but looking too far ahead can come back and bite you really so we've taken this week by week and game by game.

"We'll certainly continue to do that, but we've got to ride it. You've got to use the emotion, you've got to use the energy, you've got to use the confidence, but be humble enough to understand how we could just achieve these two big results and it doesn't just come easy. So we need to continue that and bottle it and use it again."