Erik ten Hag delivers triple Man Utd injury boost but gives worrying Luke Shaw update

Erik 10 Hag has eased Manchester United’s wounded fears implicit Lisandro Martinez, Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui but Luke Shaw is inactive not acceptable to marque his instrumentality to the first-team.

United sealed a 3-0 triumph implicit Southampton connected Saturday successful possibly their astir competent show of the caller play truthful far. Ten Hag takes his broadside to Barnsley connected Tuesday nighttime for their opening lucifer of their Carabao Cup campaign, the aforesaid trophy the Dutchman won successful his archetypal play successful complaint astatine Old Trafford.

Martinez and Mazraoui were forced disconnected successful the 77^th and 74^th infinitesimal respectively astatine St Mary’s with de Ligt pursuing precocious connected – with the centre-half aboriginal suggesting the occupation was simply a cramp.

United were blighted by injuries to their backline past play with summertime signing Leny Yoro sidelined until November aft suffering a breached metatarsal successful July.

While 10 Hag suggested helium volition inactive look to rotate his squad time nighttime astatine Oakwell, that antiaircraft trio are each acceptable and disposable contempt the play scare.

‘They are each available,’ 10 Hag told a property league connected Monday. ‘They are good.

‘I anticipation I person headaches because, past year, I besides had headaches, but determination were nary players available.

‘So, I anticipation I person galore players disposable and we tin marque a enactment from crippled to game. Definitely, we person to rotate due to the fact that we person to screen truthful galore games and truthful it’s not lone astir a starting XI.’

Rasmus Hojlund is inactive to diagnostic this play arsenic helium recovers from a hamstring wounded with Shaw besides inactive unavailable.

The left-back has not played for his nine since February and contempt some players being slated to instrumentality aft September’s planetary break, they did not marque the squad connected Saturday against Southampton.

Hojlund remains unavailable, alongside Mason Mount and Tyrell Malacia, with 10 Hag admitting determination is nary definitive instrumentality day acceptable for Shaw.

‘First, Luke Shaw, he’s progressing but not acceptable yet to beryllium selected,’ 10 Hag said.

‘Of course, we person a program successful our caput erstwhile helium tin beryllium acceptable but you are ever babelike connected however the advancement volition go. You can’t think, you can’t marque a proposition [of a instrumentality date] due to the fact that determination are truthful galore factors wherefore a program tin accelerate oregon dilatory down.’

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