Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag gives injury update on Marcel Sabitzer

Erik ten Hag has confirmed Manchester United must wait for a diagnosis of the injury Marcel Sabitzer sustained on Sunday.

Sabitzer was named in the starting line up to play Nottingham Forst at the City Ground, but he left the pitch early during the warm-up and headed straight down the tunnel, which suggested a late withdrawal was on the cards.

With Sabitzer in the dressing room, Christian Eriksen was told to begin a more vigorous warm-up and it was officially confirmed minutes later that he would be replacing the Austrian loanee in the starting team due to an injury.

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United have a mounting injury crisis at the club and Ten Hag provided an update on Sabitzer after the comfortable 2-0 win.

"He had a problem in the warm-up," Ten Hag told MUTV. "We didn't take the risk because we already have some injuries, so we have to find out tomorrow [Monday]. Hopefully it's not a big injury. We chose not to go into the game with risk.

"[That's because] you have either have to take him off really quick and we might make the injury worse."

Sabitzer will undergo an assessment on his injury at Carrington and a further update on the issue will be released in due course.

At the moment, United have Tom Heaton, Tyrell Malacia, Raphael Varane, Lisandro Martinez, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Donny Van de Beek, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Sabitzer all contending with different injury concerns.

Shaw and McTominay should return to the matchday squad against Sevilla on Thursday, though.

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