Ralf Rangnick questions Manchester United injury record ahead of Liverpool FC game

Ralf Rangnick has suggested Manchester United should investigate why they have suffered more injuries in the run-in than Liverpool.

Despite reaching the League Cup final, the FA Cup final and the Champions League semi-finals, Liverpool are not expected to have a single player injured for the Tuesday night visit of United, who are without five players.

Edinson Cavani (calf), Luke Shaw (ankle), Raphael Varane (muscular), Scott McTominay (foot) and Fred (hip flexor) are all out of the trip to Anfield. Varane has missed 15 games already this season and Cavani has been absent for 26 of United's 43 games.

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United have suffered a number of injury crises in recent years and the club opened a medical centre at their Carrington training complex that was billed as a 'big signing' by Sir Alex Ferguson in 2012. Although United have avoided an outright injury crisis this season other than the Covid-19 outbreak in their squad just before Christmas, teenagers Hannibal Mejbri and Alejandro Garnacho were on the bench against Norwich due to the dearth of senior options.

While discussing the squad limitations he has had to work with since Amad, Anthony Martial and Donny van de Beek left on loan in the January transfer window, Rangnick segued onto the issue of United's injury issues.

"We lost a few players that we should not have lost," he said. "I spoke about that last week, bearing in mind what kind of offensive players we had available against West Ham (in January), which substitutions I could make in the last 15 minutes, three of them are no longer here (Martial, Cavani and Mason Greenwood) or injured or continuously injured.

"We lost a few other players and right now we have a