Harry Maguire joins Manchester United injury list and won’t travel for Bayern Munich clash as Harry Kane defends teammate

Harry Maguire has not travelled with the Manchester United squad to look Bayern Munich connected Wednesday.

The erstwhile Red Devils skipper is absent done wounded says the club, though the specifics are not known.

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Maguire didn’t diagnostic successful the weekend’s 3-1 nonaccomplishment to Brighton, and has lone played 23 nine minutes truthful acold this season, successful a 3-1 decision to Arsenal.

He’s successful information featured much for England, playing 135 minutes crossed fixtures against Ukraine and Scotland.

That has seen England manager Gareth Southgate person to defend his trusted stalwart, and up of Wednesday’s Champions League clash, live connected talkSPORT, Harry Kane, has backed the nether occurrence defender, labelling him arsenic 1 of England’s top ever defenders.

“I deliberation H has travel nether immoderate truly unnecessary scrutiny,” Kane said earlier the game.

“Probably been scapegoated a small spot successful presumption of the mode the squad has gone implicit caller times.

“He is simply a truly bully person of mine, he’s a large guy, a truly hard-working professional.

“From an England constituent of view, helium has been 1 of our champion defenders and 1 of the champion defenders successful the past of our state successful an England shirt.

“It’s portion of our crippled now, it’s portion of football. You get scrutinised each implicit societal media but knowing him, each helium volition privation to bash is enactment harder and amended and enactment focused.

Kane is simply a large Maguire fan, but won’t look him connected WednesdayGetty

“We’re afloat down him successful the nationalist team. I cognize the manager has travel retired and backed him fully.

“There’s ever going to beryllium sound astir players but the astir important happening is that we person a truly beardown halfway with England and that’s the astir important happening going into large games and large tournaments.”

Without the 30-year-old, United person named a 21-man squad for the travel to Bavaria, with 4 caller summertime signings each connected the plane.

Rasmus Hojlund, Andre Onana and Sergio Reguilon are each apt to feature, portion Altay Bayindir volition beryllium disposable arsenic to back-up Onana.

The fixture is 1 of the astir anticipated of the 2023/24 radical stages, with 2 titans of European shot precise overmuch not astatine their best.

Former Tottenham antheral Harry Kane volition besides beryllium facing an English broadside again for the archetypal clip since his summertime determination to Munich. He has 5 goals against successful 19 games against the Red Devils.