Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford is dissatisfied at being dominated out of motion for “just a few video games” attributable to a muscle harm however the ahead has already taken the primary few steps in direction of a comeback, supervisor Erik ten Hag mentioned on Wednesday.
Rashford, 25, limped off within the eightieth minute throughout United’s 2-0 Premier League win over Everton at Previous Trafford, and can miss the primary leg of their Europa League quarter-final conflict towards Sevilla.
United haven’t offered a timeframe on their high goal-scorer’s return.
“It’s a setback and he’s dissatisfied, however he’s not completely broke as a result of he’ll return shortly. He’s began his rehab and that helps to get again quickly,” Ten Hag instructed reporters forward of Thursday’s dwelling sport.
“(Rashford will miss) A couple of video games… We’ll need to see it the way it develops.”
Rashford’s harm shall be a giant blow to United, and the membership shall be hoping Anthony Martial can step up within the England worldwide’s absence.
Ten Hag backed Martial and dismissed criticism of the 27-year-old French ahead, who has grabbed seven targets in 17 appearances this season and has spent a lot of the marketing campaign on the sidelines injured.
Martial made three substitute appearances for United of their final three league video games, scoring towards Everton.
“I feel he is able to begin…, the entrance line did very nicely towards Brentford and we picked the identical towards Everton,” Ten Hag added.
“The benefit was we might deliver Martial again slowly, giving him minutes, however I feel already towards Everton he was prepared to begin the sport.
“The time he wants for a purpose is much less. When he’s within the group, we play our greatest soccer and we have now our greatest outcomes as a group.”
United are additionally lacking the companies of winger Alejandro Garnacho and defender Luke Shaw, however the supervisor expects the England left again to be “again on brief discover”.
The Previous Trafford membership are combating for silverware on a number of fronts this season, and stay alive within the Europa League and FA Cup.
They’ve additionally received the League Cup and are fourth within the league standings on 56 factors from 29 video games.
“We’re enjoying actually good soccer. We’ve already received one cup and we’re all having fun with it, the dressing room is shut collectively and the gamers are giving their all in coaching and video games,” goalkeeper David de Gea mentioned.
“We’re nonetheless in three competitions and we’re in the fitting means.”