Five Man Utd stars return to training but key trio still absent | Football
Manchester United have been handed a huge injury boost with five players back in training ahead of their Premier League clash with Nottingham Forest next week.
Harry Maguire, Leny Yoro and Luke Shaw were all pictured back in action at Carrington on Friday morning, joined by goalkeepers Altay Bayindir and Tom Heaton.
Maguire has not featured since being forced off late on in United’s FA Cup defeat to Fulham at the beginning of March.
Yoro meanwhile was replaced at half-time in the 1-1 draw with Arsenal, missing the Europa League second leg clash against Real Sociedad and the 3-0 win over Leicester City prior to the international break.
Shaw’s campaign has been derailed by injury, briefly returning to action to feature three times under Ruben Amorim before being sidelined again in December.
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Bendito Mantato, Reece Munro, Godwill Kukonki, Jim Thwaites, Harry Amass and Chido Obi were among the United youngsters also training with the group.
Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot were also back after playing for Portugal with Manuel Ugarte and Noussair Mazraoui not seen in images and video footage after playing for Uruguay and Morocco respectively midweek.
Kobbie Mainoo and Ayden Heaven were also not pictured.
Mainoo has not played since early February due to a muscle issue but it had been hoped he would be available for selection again following the international break.
Heaven meanwhile was stretchered off against Leicester, later leaving the King Power Stadium wearing a protective boot.
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It looked like it was quite minor, albeit one where he was in a quite a lot of pain.
Our thoughts were his ankle wobbled as he came down onto it. It was likely one of two things – it was ligament damage from the movement in his ankle or the peroneal muscle group that stopped his ankle from rolling that gave him that tweak and a little strain in one of those muscles.
It could have been a slight hairline fracture but I think that would have been the worst case scenario. With the other two, you are probably talking about a couple of weeks out. 2-4 weeks is probably on the money.
Stephen Smith, Kitman Labs Founder and CEO, was speaking exclusively to Metro.
Kitman Labs is the world’s leading performance intelligence and technology company, specialising in injury welfare and performance analytics working with the Premier League.
Fears over a serious injury have subsided however with hope the former Arsenal youngster will be available again in the coming weeks.
Amad Diallo was not in training with the Ivorian still recovering from an ankle injury.
While it was thought the 22-year-old would miss the rest of the season, a social media post this week suggested he could be back in action sooner than expected.
United will however be without Lisandro Martinez for the foreseeable future with Jonny Evans also still absent.
Amorim’s side face a tough trip to Forest on 1 April before hosting Manchester City in the second derby of the season five days later at Old Trafford.
United then take on Lyon across two legs in the Europa League quarter-finals with a trip to Newcastle United waiting between those two fixtures.
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Five Man Utd stars return to training but key trio still absent | Football
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