Lisandro Mart\u00ednez\u2019s latest setback has put Manchester United in another holding pattern, with the defender\u2019s condition still uncertain after he was withdrawn at half-time in Sunday\u2019s 1-1 draw with Leeds United at Elland Road.<\/p>\n
The Argentina international started the game but did not come out for the second half, as United adjusted their shape after the interval. Ayden Heaven was already unavailable because of illness, and the team appeared to move to a back three when Mart\u00ednez was replaced by returning fullback Noussair Mazraoui.<\/p>\n
After the match, Michael Carrick said Mart\u00ednez had \u201cfelt his thigh a little bit.\u201d That brief assessment suggested caution rather than alarm, with no immediate indication that the issue was severe. Carrick also offered no further details, leaving the club to wait for a fuller update when he next speaks to reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The timing matters, with United due to face Como in the Champions League on Wednesday. At this stage, it seems difficult to imagine Mart\u00ednez being pushed into that match so soon after coming off against Leeds. If the problem is minor and carefully managed, he could be back in contention relatively quickly. The more realistic short-term target may be Bournemouth, when the Premier League schedule resumes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mart\u00ednez\u2019s injury record since arriving from Ajax in the summer of 2022 remains a significant concern. Across his first four years at the club, he made 110 appearances in all competitions, averaging fewer than 28 a season. Transfermarkt estimates that he has spent a total of 632 days sidelined in that period.<\/p>\n
For now, United are waiting for the next update, with the hope that this is another brief interruption rather than something more serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mart\u00ednez\u2019s thigh issue leaves United waiting for Tuesday\u2019s update before Como.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1647,1083,179],"tags":[1836,1047,242],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-man-utd","category-manchester-united","tag-2026-27-premier-league","tag-champions-league","tag-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}