Mason Mount out ‘for weeks’

Manchester United will once more be with out midfielder Mason Mount for “a number of weeks”, with new supervisor Ruben Amorim promising to assist the England man get well.

Mount limped off after 14 minutes of United’s 2-1 win at rivals Manchester Metropolis final weekend and sat out Thursday’s defeat away to Tottenham within the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.

The previous Chelsea participant missed 4 months of final season with a calf damage and has solely performed 12 instances this time period because of a number of setbacks.

Requested how lengthy Mount could be out forward of Sunday’s go to of Bournemouth, Amorim stated: “A number of weeks.

“I don’t know the precise date however he’s going to be out for a very long time. In that sense, it’s a part of soccer and we proceed.

“What I can do is to assist Mase, to show him the right way to play our recreation when he’s recovering. Attempt to use that point for him to suppose in several issues, after which I believe the worst half is that we don’t have time to coach like we must always do if you find yourself recovering for lots of accidents.

“We’re at all times travelling, we’ve got video games, so coaching we don’t have all of the workforce collectively and that is actually onerous to recreate the sport earlier than they arrive to the sport. It’s actually onerous for the participant to be out for therefore lengthy and he’s attempting actually onerous.”

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Luke Shaw will even be unavailable for Bournemouth, however Marcus Rashford is in competition.

Amorim once more left Rashford out of his matchday squad for the midweek fixture with Tottenham, which was purely right down to “choice” however it occurred 48 hours after the United academy product had declared himself “prepared for a brand new problem”.

Quizzed on whether or not this omission, after Rashford was additionally absent from the win at Manchester Metropolis, was because of disciplinary causes, Amorim stated: “No, it’s the identical factor guys, the identical factor. Completely the identical factor.”

Requested if Rashford may face Bournemouth, Amorim stated: “Sure, in fact.”