Casemiro was taken off during Manchester United’s defeat to Fulham (Picture: Getty Images)
Casemiro is fit for Manchester United’s trip to Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup on Wednesday after being forced off during their defeat to Fulham on Saturday.
The Brazilian midfielder suffered a clash of heads with Fulham’s Harrison Reed at Old Trafford and had to be substituted with blood pouring from his head.
There was concern for the former Real Madrid man after the contest, with Ten Hag saying: ‘I don’t know if it’s concussion but it’s definitely head to head.
‘I actually don’t know [what’s wrong] but he had to come off. He had to come off so we have to speak with the doctor, and the medical team, to see how he’s doing.’
However, fears were allayed at a press conference on Tuesday, with the Dutchman saying: ‘He was bleeding so had to come off. He’s available for tomorrow.’
Unfortunately for Ten Hag all his other injury concerns are more long-term and no other players on the sidelines will be back this week.
Luke Shaw, Lisandro Martinez, Rasmus Hojlund, Tyrell Malacia, Mason Mount, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Anthony Martial are all out until at least next month.
Erik ten Hag is again missing a string of players through injury (Picture: Getty Images)
The Manchester United boss may be missing a string of players but he wants to see a vastly improved performance against Forest than he saw in the shock loss to Fulham at the weekend.
‘I was not pleased with the performance with the defending, especially on the left side, how we did the pressing because they came out, especially in the first half an hour,’ he said.
‘Several times on the left side and that can’t happen and that has to do with willingness, spirit, passion. That was in the previous weeks very good for this team and therefore, we won football games.
‘I know footballers are not robots, sometimes they have bad, days. But it can’t be, it’s unacceptable, we have to do better tomorrow but in the weeks before we have done very well.’
On how key an FA Cup run is to the Red Devils’ season, he added: ‘When you are unbeaten for January and February, then you lose one game…Obviously it was a poor performance, poor defeat.
‘We want to stay in every competition. That doesn’t change our approach, because that is for every match.’
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