All In It Together

Michael Carrick says every member of United's burgeoning squad is playing an important part in the Reds' quest for trophies this season.

Carrick was talking after seeing Carlos Tevez produce a goalscoring display on his return to the starting line-up in the FA Cup quarter-final victory at Fulham.

Tevez put the Reds 2-0 up in the first half, before Wayne Rooney and Ji-sung Park added their names to the scoresheet after the break.

Sir Alex has been rotating his first XI to great effect all season and Carrick insists all the players are making an important contribution.

"Everyone gets rotated at some point and the players that have come in have been on top form," he told ITV1 after the game. "Hopefully that will continue because there's a lot of important games coming up.

"Carlos came in and was excellent. His second goal was a great strike and it put us in control of the game. After that it was pretty comfortable for us.

"We created a number of chances and although Wazza missed a bit of an easy chance in the first half, he made up for it later on. And we kept a clean sheet so we're very happy."