{"id":953136,"date":"2026-10-31T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953136\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:30:26","slug":"bruno-fernandes-returns-to-man-united-team-as-captain-a-week-after-being-dropped-by-carrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953136\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes returns to Man United team as captain a week after being dropped by Carrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 Bruno Fernandes was restored to Manchester United\u2019s team for the Premier League match at Chelsea on Saturday, a week after being dropped following criticism of manager Michael Carrick\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Portugal star was selected for the game at Stamford Bridge and retained the captaincy, which Carrick confirmed in his pre-match news conference Thursday while also saying Fernandes was \u201cfully committed\u201d to United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandes \u2014 the player of the year in English soccer last season \u2014 was named among the replacements for the embarrassing 3-0 home loss to Bournemouth on Sunday, days after critical comments about how Carrick set up the team in a 4-1 loss to Como in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandes never made it onto the field despite being sent out to warm up and Carrick making four second-half substitutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe cares deeply about this football club and the team and he\u2019s desperate to do well,\u201d Carrick said about Fernandes on Thursday, \u201cso we will lead that together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Bruno Fernandes was restored to Manchester United\u2019s team for the Premier League match at Chelsea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-953136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}