Days of Man United strolling to League Cup with fringe team long gone
Make no mistake; Manchester United's 2-1 defeat to Bristol City in the Carabao Cup quarterfinal was a stinker of a result. Don't think that the League Cup doesn't matter; despite the weaker team selection, Jose Mourinho wanted to win it, just like he'd won it in his first season at Old Trafford. Those two cups wins in 2017 turned the year from a failure into a success.
United fans wanted it, too. Perhaps the competition didn't matter as much at the start of this decade when United were the preeminent...