Cristiano Ronaldo ruled out of Manchester United’s clash vs Man City due to hip injury

Cristiano Ronaldo has missed Manchester United’s Premier League match against Manchester City due to a hip injury, according to Ralf Rangnick.

The 37-year-old has been left out of United’s matchday squad completely for their trip to the Etihad Stadium, while Raphael Varane and Luke Shaw are also absent after both tested positive for Covid.

Ronaldo is said to have suffered the injury during Friday’s training session.

‘Rapha Varane and Luke Shaw tested positive with Covid unfortunately in midweek,’ Rangnick told MUTV.

‘Edi [Cavani] trained well in the last three days but, at the end, didn’t feel quite well enough to be able to play.

‘And Cristiano had some problems with his hip flexor on Friday and since then he didn’t train.’

Ronaldo missed two games for United in January due to another hip injury.

Speaking ahead of the game, former United defender Gary Neville claimed Ronaldo’s absence was not ‘a big loss’ for Rangnick.

‘Manchester United will be playing on the counter attack,’ Neville told Sky Sports.

‘United over the last three or four years, particularly under Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer], were a counter-attack team.

MAN CITY: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Cancelo, Rodrigo, De Bruyne ©, Bernardo, Mahrez, Grealish, Foden.

SUBS: Carson, Sterling, Gundogan, Jesus, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Delap, Mbete, McAtee.

MAN UTD: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Telles, Fred, McTominay, Pogba, Elanga, Fernandes, Sancho.

SUBS: Henderson, Bailly, Jones, Dalot, Matic, Mata, Hannibal, Lingard, Rashford.

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