Manchester United give update on Bruno Fernandes fitness ahead of Atletico Madrid fixture

Ralf Rangnick confirmed Bruno Fernandes has tested positive for Covid-19 and is a doubt for Manchester United's Champions League return leg with Atletico Madrid.

The Manchester Evening News reported on Saturday Fernandes was absent for the 3-2 win over Spurs through illness but Rangnick did not clarify the Portuguese had Covid during his pre-match media duties.

David de Gea also tested positive for Covid on Friday but it transpired his test was a false positive and he was cleared to play. Rangnick confirmed the MEN's story De Gea was deemed unavailable until the morning of the Spurs game.

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The Covid scare forced United to cancel their planned stay at The Lowry Hotel the night before the Tottenham fixture and the players arrived for the game at Old Trafford separately. Rangnick is hopeful Scott McTominay could recover from a calf injury and suggested Luke Shaw would return to training on Sunday after missing the Tottenham and Manchester City matches with Covid.

"I don't know," Rangnick said of Fernandes. "With Scotty, I hope so but he had some muscular problems with his calf. That's why we decided not to play him today, because Scotty is quite like Fred, he is only valuable if he can perform with 100% of his physical capacity and rather than playing him at maybe 80% and take the risk that he will be out for Tuesday, we decided to not play him.

"Luke hopefully will be back in training tomorrow and Bruno we will have to wait and see until Tuesday. This will probably be a last-minute race with him.

"We have to be careful with Covid tests. David was the same. David yesterday was out, he was not supposed to play but then it turned out that his first