Manchester United has released a statement on the state of their team ahead of their weekend clash against Watford.
With a number of injury concern in the team, the English giants are expected to welcome back defender Ashley Young and a few players from the injury room.
In a statement on the club’s portal, the club is expected to have goalkeeper back between the sticks after helping Spain to a 2-1 win over Norway over the weekend. He would replace Sergio Romero, who impressed in the club’s FA Cup tie at Wolves before the international break.
In defence, apart from Young, Eric Bailly reportedly suffered a head injury on duty for Ivory Coast during their 3-0 win over Rwanda, in which he scored his second international goal, and didn’t play in Tuesday’s 1-0 friendly victory over Liberia.
Victor Lindelof didn’t go away with Sweden, however, club captain Antonio Valencia, who hasn’t featured for the Reds since our 2-0 win at Newcastle on 2 January, returned to action for Ecuador in Friday’s 1-0 defeat against the USA but didn’t feature in Tuesday’s goalless draw against Honduras.
It remains to be seen if Luke Shaw will be fit for Saturday’s game after the left-back withdrew from the England squad through injury. Phil Jones has also been an unused substitute in recent weeks, including at Wolves on 16 March, and could be closer to a first outing since our 3-0 win at Fulham on 9 February.
Matteo Darmian hasn’t played since the 2-1 win over Brighton on 19 January, while Marcos Rojo still awaits his first appearance under Solskjaer but has been pictured training recently following his recovery from injury.
Nemanja Matic, who recently missed four successive games for United through injury, was ruled out of Serbia’s matches against Germany and Portugal during the break.
Ander Herrera recovered from the injury which forced him off in the first half against Liverpool on 24 February to make his comeback at Molineux in our last match, while fellow Spaniard Juan Mata returned from the injury he also suffered against Liverpool as a late substitute against Wolves.
Jesse Lingard is returning after warm weather training in Dubai. Marcus Rashford had to withdraw from Gareth Southgate’s squad through injury and Anthony Martial also pulled out of his international commitments with France due to a recurring knee complaint.
Romelu Lukaku sat out Belgium’s two Euro 2020 qualifiers with the foot injury which led to him missing our FA Cup tie at Wolves, while Ole has confirmed that Alexis Sanchez isn’t expected to return until late April after sustaining a knee injury in our last home game against Southampton.