Benjamin Sesko injury: What's the latest surrounding Man United forward's fitness?

Manchester United caput manager Michael Carrick has revealed that Benjamin Sesko aggravated an existing shin occupation during Sunday's Premier League clash with Liverpool.

The 22-year-old scored his 11th Premier League extremity of the run successful the archetypal fractional of the Premier League contention astatine Old Trafford, but helium was past replaced astatine the interruption by Amad Diallo.

Carrick has revealed that a autumn into the advertizing hoardings pursuing a situation with Liverpool's Ibrahima Konate saw him aggravate a caller shin issue.

“He got a bang connected his shin erstwhile helium fell down the broadside of the pitch," Carrick told MUTV.

"It’s thing that he’s been carrying for a small spot arsenic well, truthful we’ve had to negociate him a spot but he’s surely had a bang close connected the aforesaid spot. It’s arsenic elemental arsenic that really."

Man United's Sesko was forced disconnected injured against Liverpool

In a antithetic interrogation with Sky Sports News, Carrick added: "He's been carrying a spot of a shin occupation for immoderate clip and it was erstwhile we got pushed into the hoarding and down the dip. So that was it."

It is unclear erstwhile Sesko volition return, but Man United volition not beryllium taking immoderate risks with the striker considering that their spot successful adjacent season's Champions League has present been secured.

The Red Devils are 3rd successful the Premier League table, six points up of fourth-placed Liverpool, and they volition beryllium aiming to decorativeness the play connected a affirmative note.

Man United volition instrumentality connected Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Brighton & Hove Albion successful their last 3 Premier League matches of the campaign.

"In immoderate ways [I'm arrogant of it]. And, successful immoderate ways, I deliberation the enactment that's been done and the players, the mode they've performed, and the teams that we've played against and got bully results against, I deliberation it's thing that we tin instrumentality a batch from, for sure," said Carrick erstwhile asked astir reaching the Champions League.

"I deliberation was good successful the distance, a small bit, if we're honest, astatine 1 point. So determination has been a batch of bully enactment to enactment america successful a presumption with 3 games to spell and get that sealed. But it's not thing we've spoke astir arsenic a radical really. I deliberation it's not thing we over-celebrate. I deliberation it's a step.

Man United person present qualified for adjacent season's Champions League

"We privation more. We privation to beryllium finishing higher up the league but, surely determination is immense recognition deserved that goes to the players and the staff, for putting america successful this position, astatine this stage.

"Good players help. Good coaches, bully staff. I deliberation the transportation that we've each had unneurotic has been beauteous peculiar and we've had to bash it successful antithetic ways. We've won games successful antithetic ways, with antithetic challenges, and contiguous was a antithetic 1 again.

"You conscionable support trying to bash the close things and knowing of what it means to beryllium here, and the players for taking everything connected committee so, truthful well. To bash it with games to spare, similar we have, that's 1 happening but we privation to support kicking connected and decorativeness the play strongly."

A determination connected Carrick's aboriginal astatine the helm volition beryllium made successful the coming weeks, but the 44-year-old's enactment has enactment him successful rod presumption to beryllium appointed the club's adjacent semipermanent caput coach.