And now there is one additional absentee, with Casemiro<\/a> also set to miss the match due to suspension.<\/p>\n Casemiro tried to \u2018take one for the team\u2019 when he fouled Marcus Tavernier early in the second half, in Manchester United\u2019s 4-4 draw with Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tavernier was driving at goal and was about to shoot, and Casemiro sacrificed himself to try and deny a goalscoring chance.<\/p>\n Casemiro was booked for the tackle, accumulating his fifth yellow card of the season, earning a one-match suspension.<\/p>\n And to add insult to injury, Bournemouth scored from the resulting free-kick to go 3-2 up, making Casemiro\u2019s booking<\/a> all for nothing.<\/p>\n Casemiro is suspended vs Aston Villa \ud83d\udeab <\/p>\n It’s the worst possible timing! Who should replace him?<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Mainoo or Ugarte decision awaits<\/p>\n Ruben Amorim<\/a> now has to work out how to replace Casemiro, in addition to a squad selection dilemma over the AFCON stars.<\/p>\n Amorim has a straight choice here between Manuel Ugarte<\/a> and Kobbie Mainoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mainoo came off the bench against Bournemouth, but Ugarte might get the nod if Amorim believes he is better suited for the fixture at Villa.<\/p>\n Either way, United will miss Casemiro. The fixture at Villa was already going to be tough. Now it has become a lot tougher.<\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best United content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have an additional blow to deal with against Aston Villa this coming weekend. Aston Villa are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[70481,1084,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-casemiro","9":"tag-premier-league","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Casemiro](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252089777-1024x683.jpg\")
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