Carlos Baleba injury: How many Man Utd games could he miss?

Manchester United were dealt a devastating caller wounded stroke against Roma, arsenic Carlos Baleba pulled up with a hamstring wounded successful the Champions League encounter.

The erstwhile Brighton & Hove Albion antheral was fixed the motion alongside Kobbie Mainoo successful the centre of the parkland against the Giallorossi, but the Red Devils were soon overrun.

Matias Soule's onslaught and Donyell Malen's punishment enactment Roma 2-0 up wrong conscionable 17 minutes, seeing Man United interruption an unwanted nine record for the quickest clip to concede 2 goals successful a European location game.

Supporters - who were already voicing their disapproval towards INEOS and the Glazers - temporarily halted the crippled by throwing tennis balls onto the pitch, earlier booing the players disconnected astatine fractional time.

Michael Carrick's men generated conscionable 0.24 Expected Goals successful the archetypal half, but they rapidly recovered themselves successful down successful the 2nd period, lone for the onslaught to interruption down successful achy circumstances.

Carlos Baleba suffers hamstring wounded successful Man United vs. Roma

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Baleba recovered himself one-on-one with Roma goalkeeper Devis Vazquez astatine a choky angle, but arsenic the Cameroonian was bearing down connected goal, helium pulled up clutching his hamstring earlier getting a changeable oregon a walk off.

Vazquez gratefully collected the shot portion Baleba collapsed successful agony successful the goal, and the 22-year-old trudged disconnected to beryllium replaced by Youri Tielemans successful the 51st minute.

Baleba gingerly walked to the passageway with a subordinate of the aesculapian squad arsenic helium prepares to acquisition further assessment, having been dealt different setback successful his fledgling Man United career.

The midfielder's Red Devils debut was initially delayed owed to an ankle injury, arsenic helium did not marque his archetypal quality for Man United until October 10 against Tottenham Hotspur.

Baleba has started each of Man United's past 3 Premier League games, though, and helium was making his 2nd European commencement of the run against Roma.

Carlos Baleba injury: Which Man United games could midfielder miss?

Some hamstring issues simply beryllium to beryllium tightness oregon scares, which tin heal successful a fewer days, but Baleba's actions were indicative of a existent hamstring strain.

However, if the 22-year-old has lone suffered a Grade 1 injury, helium could beryllium backmost successful a mates of weeks, meaning helium would lone miss the sojourn of Aston Villa connected November 8 and instrumentality against Liverpool connected November 22 pursuing the planetary break.

A Grade 2 occupation could regularisation Baleba retired for astir six weeks, though, meaning helium would besides beryllium unavailable for fixtures against Sporting Lisbon and Brentford earlier the extremity of the month, arsenic good arsenic Newcastle United, Coventry City, RB Leipzig and Crystal Palace successful the archetypal fractional of December.

A Grade 3 wounded - a implicit teardrop - would necessitate a three-month betterment period, keeping Baleba sidelined until aboriginal February and forcing him to miss crunch clashes with Arsenal (December 20), Bayern Munich (January 20) and Liverpool (January 23).