News desk: Manchester United centre-back Lisandro Martinez will miss the rest of the season after fracturing a metatarsal bone in his foot.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old sustained the injury in United’s 2-2 Europa League quarter-final against Sevilla on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Erik ten Hag’s side were reduced to 10 men when Martinez was helped off in the 86th minute with United leading 2-1.<\/p>\n
Martinez’s centre-back partner Raphael Varane also sustained an injury and is expected to be out for a few weeks.<\/p>\n
“Everyone at Manchester United sends Lisandro and Rapha our best wishes for a speedy recovery,” the club said.<\/p>\n
Martinez, a World Cup winner with Argentina, was helped off the pitch at Old Trafford by Sevilla’s Gonzalo Montiel and Marcos Acuna, his international team-mates.<\/p>\n
He was then placed on a stretcher and carried away for treatment.<\/p>\n
Martinez joined United from Ajax last July in a deal worth up to \u00a357m and has played in 27 of United’s Premier League matches this season.<\/p>\n
France defender Varane, who joined the club from Real Madrid in August 2021, has made 21 league appearances this season.<\/p>\n
He picked up an injury just before half-time and was replaced by Harry Maguire at the interval.<\/p>\n
United are fourth in the Premier League with nine games remaining and the club are still in the FA Cup as well as the Europa League.<\/p>\n
Speaking before United’s league game against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, manager Ten Hag said: “We have a lot of decent centre-halves. We have proved in the past and in this season that we have four or five very good centre-halves who can do the job.”<\/p>\n
Centre-backs Maguire and Victor Lindelof are the likely options to fill in for Martinez and Varane.<\/p>\n
Left-back Luke Shaw, who has played at centre-back at times this season, has missed the past two games with a hamstring injury but Ten Hag said the England international could return on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The club are also without their top scorer Marcus Rashford, who sustained a muscle injury in United’s win over Everton on Saturday.<\/p>\n
After the Forest game, United travel to Sevilla on Thursday for the return leg of their Europa League quarter-final before facing Brighton three days later in an FA Cup semi-final, for which Maguire is suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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