The Real Madrid legend may have won it all in his career, but since his transfer to Manchester United in 2022, he has looked a shadow of himself and someone who just isn’t good enough to grace the Premier League stage.
Arne Slot’s Liverpool rocked up to their rivals’ ground with a 100% start to the new Premier League season, without conceding, but without really being tested in their opening two matches.
Manchester United was supposed to be that test, but by the half-time break, Liverpool were 2-0 up and Casemiro was being hooked off for a youngster.
For Liverpool’s opening goal, the Brazil international gave the ball away and it was pounced on, before Mohamed Salah lofted a brilliant ball at the far post for Luis Diaz to head home.
Paul Scholes was raging at that moment and how the whole team just wasn’t organised and, in the end, it was ‘five against three’.
That moment alone was enough for it to be a nightmare for Casemiro, but then things went from bad to worse when he was robbed of the ball and punished in devastating fashion – Salah and Diaz combining again.
Michael Owen stated that when the ball was taken off Casemiro, his manager Erik ten Hag was ‘certainly complaining for the foul’, but of course, it was just really poor player from the 32-year-old.
Scholes agreed that the ball was won fairly and that it was a ‘tough’ 45 minutes for the veteran midfielder, as he told Premier League Productions (01/09/24 at 4:55 pm).
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