{"id":278070,"date":"2026-02-03T06:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:20:11","slug":"richard-jolly-casemiro-has-restored-his-status-at-manchester-united-but-exposing-his-sides-vulnerability-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278070\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Jolly: Casemiro has restored his status at Manchester United \u2013 but exposing his side\u2019s vulnerability in the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester United's Casemiro (centre) celebrates with his teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the Premier League match at Old Trafford against Fulham. (Martin Rickett\/PA Wire)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SOCCER M ( (6).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Manchester United&#8217;s Casemiro (centre) celebrates with his teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the Premier League match at Old Trafford against Fulham. (Martin Rickett\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Stretford End songbook was focused on two defensive midfielders. The song celebrating Michael Carrick was, like the man himself, brought back from the past. Yet after the final whistle, after an injury-time winner, the name sung longest and loudest was that of Casemiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He has started his long goodbye at Old Trafford. He has been a talisman and transformative presence, laughing stock and fading force. Now it seems the Brazilian will go as a cult hero, and a man who will leave a sizeable gap in the midfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s Casemiro (centre) celebrates with his teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73476,42,917,43,1102,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-278070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-erik-ten-hag","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}