MANCHESTER UNITED could be without Anthony Martial for Sunday’s huge Premier League trip to Tottenham after the striker picked up a nasty leg injury.
In the Red Devils’ derby victory over Manchester City last time out, the Frenchman was left with two open wounds after smashing into the goalpost.
United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has already ruled Martial, 24, out of Thursday’s trip to face LASK in the Europa League.
And he may not recover in time for the game against Jose Mourinho’s Spurs.
Solskjaer told reporters: “Anthony hurt himself when he slid into the post so he’s not ready for [the LASK] game.
“Hopefully he can be ready for Sunday but I’m not sure. He’s struggling a little bit.”
In attempting to chase down a poor touch from City goalkeeper Ederson in Sunday’s 2-0 win, Martial slid into the goalpost and was forced to come off.
A social media post after the game revealed his two gruesome wounds.
Losing Martial would represent a huge blow to Solskjaer’s hopes of chasing down fourth-place Chelsea with only nine matches left of the Premier League season.
Having moved to a central striking role, the forward has netted 11 times in 23 league appearances with a further trio of strikes in Europe.
Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba are also unavailable for the Tottenham game, the hosts themselves missing key attackers in Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Steven Bergwijn.
But Solskjaer is confident that his squad is large enough to cope with the absentees, particularly with the return of midfielder Scott McTominay.
The Norwegian noted: “The focus is getting there and the squad we’re building – with competition for places.
“Scotty was talking about this – yes he wants to play but he still wants Nemanja [Matic] to do well which is a great position to be in as a manager.
“We’ve got now 24, 25 players training, competing every day and they all know it’s the business end of the season.
“We’re not giving out gametime now for the sake of gametime, you need to perform to be in and around the first team and even on the bench.”
