United United gets a double boost! After extended layoffs due to injuries, key players Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez are back in full training mode.
Key players Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez have returned to training following injuries, which has buoyed Manchester United.
Casemiro and Martinez are getting closer to making a comeback after Wednesday’s training session with the first team. Before the month comes to a close, both players should be ready to be picked. United have been without Martinez since September after he underwent surgery on a foot condition, and Casemiro has been sidelined since early November with a hamstring problem.
THE OVERALL VIEWThe team and manager Erik ten Hag will greatly benefit from the players’ impending returns. After their most recent loss to Nottingham Forest, United dropped to eighth place in the league, fourteen points behind first place. United is now experiencing a terrible season. Ten Hag will be hoping that his team’s performance improves once the veteran tandem returns for the remainder of the season.United have not won nine of their first twenty league games since 1989–90; this is equal to the number of losses they had all season last year.Currently, United’s January schedule consists of just two games: January 8 against Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup third round and January 14 against Tottenham in the Premier League. Fans will be eager to watch the two play again soon, though it is unclear how many minutes each will get in either match.
Man Utd reach agreement with Cameroon over when Andre Onana will leave for AFCON
The 27-man Cameroonian roster for the event, which begins on January 13, includes United’s starting goalkeeper Onana.
The 27-year-old will reportedly remain at Old Trafford until January 14, preventing him from missing as many as six games for United.
With this news, Onana can be ready to face Wigan in the FA Cup third round on January 8 and Tottenham in the Premier League six days after that.
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At a Saudi Arabian warm-up camp, Cameroon’s players will get ready to face Zambia in a friendly on January 9. Then, just six days later, they’ll jet off to the Ivory Coast to face Guinea in their first game.
After a falling out with manager Rigobert Song at last year’s Qatar World Cup, Onana withdrew from international duty. However, he made a triumphant return in September.Erik ten Hag, United’s manager, has already stated that he is not worried about losing Onana to AFCON because the team has a quality set of goalkeepers, including Altay Bayindir and Tom Heaton.
‘We would like it if Andre could be available more often, but we do have two capable goalkeepers who can go in for him if necessary.’
United paid Inter Milan £47 million to get Onana this summer, but the player has had a rough go of it since joining, committing a number of errors.