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Manchester United Erik ten Hag has confirmed that defender Harry Maguire picked up a small drawback throughout the Group Protect defeat on penalties to Manchester Metropolis.
The Englishman made his third look of pre-season after lacking the ultimate tour recreation of america towards Liverpool.
United had been plagued final season by defensive points and needed to play over 30 completely different combos within the defence.
It was hoped this season can be completely 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 towards Liverpool within the final recreation of the tour.
Victor Lindelof was additionally unnoticed of the Group Protect match as a precaution, which 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 yet one more defender by claiming Maguire, who was additionally a doubt for the match yesterday, had suffered an issue and would have to be assessed earlier than subsequent week’s opening Premier League match towards Fulham on Friday night time.
“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 informed reporters after the Group Protect.
“[There is] slightly knock with Harry [Maguire] however we hope he can preserve match and obtainable for subsequent week after we begin the season towards Fulham.”
Because of this at the moment Evans and Martinez are the one match centre backs prepared and obtainable to play for the membership in the meanwhile, and the Argentine has solely performed one recreation of pre-season after getting back from vacation later resulting from his run to the Copa America ultimate.
Ineos have definitely realised this drawback they usually have signed two centre backs this summer time.
Yoro was a powerful seize from LOSC Lille and information broke yesterday that United have had a bid accepted by Bayern Munich for an additional central defender, Matthijs de Ligt.
With a listing of Yoro, Martinez, De Ligt, Maguire, Lindelof and Evans, it’s seemingly that a minimum of one in all Maguire or Lindelof can be offered and there have been experiences yesterday that the Swede was attracting curiosity from Saudi Arabia.
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