Two Manchester United undroppables are raising question marks over Erik ten Hag's judgement

When Hannibal Mejbri picked up a yellow card in the 14th minute of Wednesday night's Carabao Cup tie between Manchester United and Newcastle, Sky Sports commentator Gary Neville suggested a senior member of the team needed to have a word with the Tunisian international to calm him down.

The midfielder seemed to walk a tightrope for the rest of the game before he was substituted in the 65th minute and could have easily been handed a second yellow just three minutes later following another clumsy challenge on Emil Krafth and again narrowly avoided a red when he threw the ball away after referee Robert Jones awarded a Magpies free-kick. "Hannibal should be off," Neville admitted during his commentary duties. "He's lucky because the referee didn't want to send him off. He's got to be careful to say the least - he's hanging in there by a thread."

You would think that in such situations, the responsibility to calm the youngster down and make him fall in line would be on the captain, yet the person who had been handed the armband for the night appeared to do nothing.

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Reds boss Erik ten Hag had described Casemiro as 'the perfect one to wear the armband' in Bruno Fernandes' absence ahead of kick-off. Yet when he most needed to show the leadership qualities his manager had raved about, he came up lacking.

"Yeah but I think he's always showing that," Ten Hag said about Casemiro's leadership ahead of the game. "Every training, every game I think he's shown that." But those qualities were nowhere to be seen against Newcastle. Instead, Casemiro's name joined Hannibal's