It turns out the lower leg injury to Benjamin Sesko is actually more serious than had been initially speculated upon. The Slovenian striker is not in the day-by-day/maybe a late fitness test kind of category. Sesko is in the long-term injury category, actually.
It’s not the shin, like last time, but it’s in the same general area of the body.
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We may not see him again until after the November international break.
“It’s a similar area, but it’s not the exact same thing again,” United manager Michael Carrick said yesterday.
“And we’re still working through it a little bit to see how long the issue will be…He recovered really well from the initial one, but sometimes things get thrown up and the body does certain things.
“We’ve got to react to that and try to get him back as quickly as we can.”
And on Friday, ahead of the score draw (which obviously felt like a loss) with Tottenham Hotspur, Carrick gave an update on Patrick Dorgu, and his hamstring injury, saying that “it looks like he will be out for a number of weeks.”
So, obviously we won’t see Dorgu feature again until November, and thus, he’s ruled out of the Tuesday night trip to Atletico Madrid.
Turning to another player who got hurt over international break, Noussair Mazraoui, the news is better with him.
“Nous came off and took a knock. He’s not quite right, so we’ll see how he is.”
He’s a doubt for the trip to Madrid. Otherwise the rest of the United injury situation remains the same.
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