Casemiro strode out of the tunnel with his son Caio and his daughter Sara as his designated mascots. He was smiling. A big smile. It was a sign of the changing times for the Brazilian.
After a disastrous display in defeat by Liverpool in which he was hooked by Erik ten Hag at half-time, his critics were telling him to call it a day.
'It is a sad sight seeing what he's going through out there,' Jamie Carragher said, having previously told the 32-year-old to 'leave the football before the football leaves you'.