Man United get mixed injury news ahead of Juventus clash in Champions League

Ahead of their clash with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus in Turin, Manchester United have received mixed news from the treatment table. Romelu Lukaku was absent from Manchester United’s training session ahead of their Champions League clash with Juventus in Turin. The out-of-form striker was dropped for United’s victory over Everton 10 days ago then missed out on the squad entirely for the weekend’s win at Bournemouth after picking up an injury in training.
                                     

Defender Diogo Dalot, who has only made two appearances since signing from Porto, also missed out but Antonio Valencia and Marouane Fellaini did take part in the session at Carrington ahead of United’s trip to Italy. Valencia has been sidelined for a month while Fellaini picked up a groin injury on international duty with Belgium in October.

Jose Mourinho’s side look to be playing for second place in their group after losing 1-0 to Juve and former player Cristiano Ronaldo at Old Trafford two weeks ago. Lukaku was dropped for last weekend’s win over his former club Everton and did not make the 18 for Saturday’s 2-1 comeback victory at Bournemouth in the Premier League.

The striker has been enduring a poor run of form, having not scored for United since the middle of September, and could miss the Champions League trip to Turin due to injury.
                                             

United face the Serie A champions on Wednesday and Mourinho cannot be certain whether the Belgium striker will be ready to travel. “I have to wait until Monday,” said the Portuguese after Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford struck in Lukaku’s absence at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday. He needs these couple of days. It was something in training. We don’t know, a muscle problem, and we have to wait a little bit.”