{"id":11804,"date":"2023-02-04T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2023-02-04T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:20:55","slug":"epl-man-united-survive-casemiro-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man United Survive Casemiro Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ten-man Manchester United cemented their grip on third place with a 2-1 win against Crystal Palace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two days before the anniversary of the 1958 Munich air crash that killed eight United players on the way home from a match against Red Star Belgrade, Old Trafford paid an emotional pre-match tribute to the victims of the tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the seventh minute, United were awarded a penalty after VAR showed Will Hughes handled Marcus Rashford\u2019s cross, with Bruno Fernandes coolly converting from the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rashford struck in the 62nd minute with a composed finish from Luke Shaw\u2019s cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">United were reduced to 10 men in the 70th minute when Brazil midfielder Casemiro grabbed Will Hughes by the throat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jeff Schlupp\u2019s 76th minute strike set up a tense finish but United held on to win six successive home league games for the first time since 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-man Manchester United cemented their grip on third place with a 2-1 win against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6394,223,6393],"class_list":["post-11804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-crystal-palace","tag-epl","tag-man-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11806,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions\/11806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}