Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford is a doubt for the League Cup remaining, with extra assessments wanted to look at the severity of the harm that compelled the in-form striker off towards Barcelona.
Rashford limped off late in United’s 2-1 Europa League play-off second leg win on Thursday, casting doubt over whether or not he’ll begin towards Newcastle United on Sunday, as his group look to win their first trophy since 2017 at Wembley.
No participant in Europe’s top-five leagues has extra objectives than Rashford because the World Cup break, along with his 24 strikes this time period essentially the most he has ever scored in a single marketing campaign in his profession.
“I do not know, the gamers now are coming in, we’ve to do investigations, medical after all we did straight after the sport, however more often than not you must look forward to a 100 % prognosis,” United supervisor Erik ten Hag advised a information convention on Friday.
“So let’s do the medical, the work, we’ve to attend.”
Thursday’s victory stored United competing in 4 competitions this season as they proceed to go from power to power beneath their Dutch boss.
Ten Hag nonetheless feels United have an extended option to go to get again to the place the membership must be.
“Being in 4 competitions shouldn’t be success, however the street to success,” he added. “It is solely success if you win trophies. On Sunday, we’ve a possibility to have a hit.
“We’ve a squad we use and after we play 4 competitions we want a squad, you’ll be able to’t do it with 11 gamers — each from the load standpoint but additionally the tactical one.
“Newcastle is a superb group, a transparent philosophy about how they need to play the sport. They’re an annoying group to play towards, so we’ve to discover a option to win. They attempt to annoy you. We’ve to play our sport and give attention to our sport.”
Ten Hag additionally confirmed French ahead Anthony Martial stays out injured and won’t participate on Sunday.
