Manchester United midfielder Casemiro shall be suspended for 4 matches after his pink card in opposition to Southampton within the Premier League on Sunday.
The Brazilian was despatched off after 34 minutes for a harmful problem on Southampton attacker Carlos Alcaraz, which initially earned him a yellow card however was then upgraded to a pink following a VAR examine.
Casemiro, who was additionally despatched off in opposition to Crystal Palace earlier this season, was in tears and needed to be consoled by his team-mates as he left the pitch at Previous Trafford.
Having acquired two straight pink playing cards, he’ll miss 4 video games for United within the competitors and given his high-quality kind since signing final summer season from Actual Madrid, that shall be a blow for supervisor Erik ten Hag.
The 31-year-old, who was despatched off solely twice in his total profession at Actual Madrid throughout 10 years and 336 video games, will miss the house fixtures in opposition to Brentford and Everton, plus away video games at Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.
With United’s subsequent Premier League sport not as a consequence of be performed till April 2, that might change if their oustanding fixture away to Brighton is rescheduled to happen sooner than any of the above-mentioned matches.
Both method, Casemiro must be again for the house sport in opposition to Chelsea on April twenty second and the journey to Tottenham 5 days later.
