Loss to Manchester City exposes Manchester United’s stagnant attack under Michael Carrick

Getty Images Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the Premier League’s latest grand VAR melodrama, perhaps a clearer-eyed view of Manchester United can emerge. Were Matt Donohue and his assistant VAR Blake Antrobus a significant factor in Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at home to Manchester City? Absolutely, but they were not the only ones, perhaps not even the decisive one. Most profoundly of all the problems that emerged when United found themselves a man up with well over an hour to play were not new to them. If anything, they might be difficulties that are innate to playing…