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Manchester United Erik ten Hag has confirmed that defender Harry Maguire picked up a small downside in the course of the Neighborhood Defend defeat on penalties to Manchester Metropolis.
The Englishman made his third look of pre-season after lacking the ultimate tour sport of america in opposition to Liverpool.
United had been plagued final season by defensive points and needed to play over 30 totally different combos within the defence.
It was hoped this season could be totally different however new signing Leny Yoro picked up a extreme harm in simply his second match for the membership and Will Fish was additionally badly harm in opposition to Liverpool within the final sport of the tour.
Victor Lindelof was additionally unnoticed of the Neighborhood Defend match as a precaution, that means Jonny Evans and Maguire began because the centre again pairing with Lisandro Martinez shifted out to the left again place.
Talking in his post-match press convention, Ten Hag confirmed there had been an harm to one more defender by claiming Maguire, who was additionally a doubt for the match yesterday, had suffered an issue and would should be assessed earlier than subsequent week’s opening Premier League match in opposition to Fulham on Friday evening.
“I simply checked with the physician, and the physician was the individual I spoke to most final season, and evidently everyone seems to be [starting to] come good,” Ten Hag instructed reporters after the Neighborhood Defend.
“[There is] just a little knock with Harry [Maguire] however we hope he can preserve match and accessible for subsequent week after we begin the season in opposition to Fulham.”
Which means presently Evans and Martinez are the one match centre backs prepared and accessible to play for the membership in the intervening time, and the Argentine has solely performed one sport of pre-season after getting back from vacation later resulting from his run to the Copa America remaining.
Ineos have definitely realised this downside they usually have signed two centre backs this summer time.
Yoro was a formidable seize from LOSC Lille and information broke yesterday that United have had a bid accepted by Bayern Munich for one more central defender, Matthijs de Ligt.
With a listing of Yoro, Martinez, De Ligt, Maguire, Lindelof and Evans, it’s possible that at the very least one in every of Maguire or Lindelof can be offered and there have been stories yesterday that the Swede was attracting curiosity from Saudi Arabia.
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