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After Friday's trip to Bournemouth, Manchester United don't have another match for 24 days, when they play Leeds at home. It is an incredible situation, even allowing for the fact there is an international break as part of that and underlines what a season looks like with no Europe and when you have been knocked out of both domestic cups at the earliest possible stage. European qualification is virtually certain next season after a run of seven wins in nine games since Michael Carrick took charge.
[Getty Images] After Friday's trip to Bournemouth , Manchester United don't have another match for 24 days, when they play Leeds at home. It is an incredible situation, even allowing for the fact there is an international break as part of that and underlines what a season looks like with no Europe and when you have been knocked out of both domestic cups at the earliest possible stage. European qualification is virtually certain next season after a run of seven wins in nine games since Michael Carrick took charge.
It is a spot in next season's Champions League that is the key aim for United now though. Carrick has chosen to preview Friday's trip to Bournemouth today, so media commitments don't cut across Thursday training and travel. United have only won one out their last three away games – and two in seven going all the way back to the victory at Wolves on 8 December – so it will be interesting to see what Carrick thinks the reasons for that are when he speaks to the media in a bit.