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Manchester United forward Edinson Cavani will miss a “couple of weeks” with the injury he suffered on Uruguay duty, Ralf Rangnick has confirmed.
Cavani was substituted during a 2-0 win over Chile during the international break, as Uruguay cemented third place in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers after a run of four successive wins.
In a pre-match media conference looking ahead to Saturday’s Premier League clash with Leicester City, Rangnick confirmed the news while discussing the various positions in which Paul Pogba has been deployed in recent weeks.
“Since the game against West Ham on January 22, we have lost three strikers,” the interim Red Devils boss said.
“Anthony Martial, Mason Greenwood and even Edinson Cavani, who is injured again, unfortunately, and will be out for the next couple of weeks.”
Cavani has managed just two Premier League goals during a frustrating campaign, seeing 614 minutes of league action all season.
Manchester United have lost two of their last three games in all competitions (winning the other). They had lost just one of their previous 20 following Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s November dismissal, recording 10 wins and nine draws in that time.
