MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Marcus Rashford may miss Saturday’s sport towards Wolverhampton with a leg harm, doubtlessly hurting Manchester United’s possibilities of incomes a Champions League place.
United supervisor Erik ten Hag mentioned Friday it was “greater than uncertain” his main scorer could be out there for the weekend.
“He has an issue,” Ten Hag mentioned. “He’s a giant query mark for tomorrow.”
Rashford’s absence could be a serious blow to United after back-to-back losses within the Premier League.
The England striker has had essentially the most prolific season of his profession, scoring 29 objectives to assist fill the void left by Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure in November.
Higher information for United is the return to health of Raphael Varane after the France defender was injured towards Sevilla final month.
However discovering objectives with out Rashford is a matter Ten Hag has struggled with this season.
Rashford’s significance has been underlined in latest weeks as United’s kind has begun to dip.
The ahead has solely scored as soon as in his final seven video games, which has coincided with Ten Hag’s crew being knocked out of the Europa League by Sevilla and profitable simply one in every of its final 4 matches within the league.
That has allowed fifth-place Liverpool to shut the hole within the race for Champions League qualification on the again of a run of six straight wins.
United continues to be fourth, with a sport in hand on its historic rival, as Ten Hag goals to guide the crew again into European soccer’s elite competitors in his first 12 months in cost.
Ten Hag mentioned strain from Liverpool shouldn’t be a trigger for concern within the last weeks of the season.
“After all we are able to ignore it,” he mentioned. “As a result of it’s not essential. We’ve got every thing in our palms and so long as we now have issues in our palms — so we’re in management — so long as that, we aren’t dependent of (on) them.”
Liverpool’s Champions League cost has come out of nowhere after lastly discovering kind in latest weeks.
The profitable run has seen Liverpool climb from eighth place to fifth, whereas a 10-point hole to United is now only one.
It brings again recollections of 2021 when Liverpool gained eight and drew two of its final 10 video games to safe a top-four end. That included goalkeeper Alisson Becker scoring a Ninetieth-minute winner at West Bromwich Albion.
“I knew weeks in the past it was utterly out of sight, I couldn’t see it in any respect, however that didn’t imply we’d not attempt to get nearer,” Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp mentioned Friday. “That’s the one factor we did, we obtained nearer.”
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