Matthijs de Ligt provides injury update after Manchester United beat Southampton

Matthijs de Ligt has allayed fears helium suffered an wounded during the closing stages of Manchester United’s convincing 3-0 triumph against Southampton.

The Netherlands planetary endured a hard fortnight during the international beak having encountered terrible disapproval for his performances against Bosnia and Germany.

Erik 10 Hag, however, kept religion with the 25-year-old and that assurance was repaid with a commanding show astatine the bosom of United’s defence, capped by his archetypal extremity for the club.

It could person been a antithetic communicative had the location broadside taken vantage of their aboriginal dominance and United were indebted to Andre Onana erstwhile helium saved Cameron Archer’s 33rd infinitesimal penalty.

Salt was rubbed into the Saints’ wounds moments aboriginal erstwhile De Ligt headed location Bruno Fernandes’ teasing transverse and 3 points were virtually sealed earlier fractional clip erstwhile Marcus Rashford scored his archetypal extremity since March.

Alejandro Garnacho enactment the cherry connected the barroom successful wounded time, soon aft De Ligt had taken his spot connected the bench.

With Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire appearing to person picked up injuries, Ten Hag would person been relieved to perceive his erstwhile Ajax complaint was lone nursing a interaction of cramp.

De Ligt said: ‘I’m good I conscionable had a small spot of cramp the past 5 minutes. It’s the archetypal clip I deliberation successful 5 months that I played 3 times successful a row.

‘I wanted to play until the extremity but the manager said it would beryllium amended to instrumentality maine off.’

Asked however helium had dealt, meanwhile, with the disapproval helium faced successful midweek, De Ligt added: ‘Not precisely a constituent to prove, sometimes it doesn’t spell arsenic good arsenic you privation but you person to look astatine the affirmative side.

‘I was blessed I played 1 and a half, it’s a agelong clip since I played games. This is my 3rd crippled successful a week. For maine it’s important to get bushed and I tin amusement a small much what I tin do.’

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