Breaking news: Lisandro Martinez's injury and his recovery time are confirmed

The red devils were hoping for something much more worse, but now everything has been confirmed and the team is ready to work with the defender to have him back.

Rio Ferdinand reacts to Lisandro Martinez's terrible injury with Man United

Manchester United main concern right now is the fact that the red devils have the need to make sure that they have a back up plan for the next games of the season when it comes to players that could get injuried, just like it has happen with Martinez but now everything has been confirmed by the club and they are ready to work with him to get him back.

It now has been confirmed that Lisandro Martinez has a sprain to his collateral ligament, that has been confirmed by the scans and the "good" news is the fact that it has also been confirmed that he could be back to the team in 6 to 8 weeks depending on the recovery of the player, but that means he could be back in this same season with the team now.

On top of that it has also been confirmed that the red devils and the player himself have agreed that this injury does not require surgery and the fact is that this decision prevent some more complications for the center back, now that he is looking to get back this very same season to support the team in some games.

"It seems bad. We have to wait, make the right diagnosis in the coming days and then we will see. Hopefully it is not too bad, we can only pray." Ten Hag said right after the game ended, but the fact is that now with this scenario there is a lot of hope from the red devils that this is definitely not the worst case scenario with the player now.

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Lisandro Martinez role

The main concern with the injury from Lisandro Martinez is the fact that he is one of the leaders of the team off and on the pitch, and this is one of the reasons why the team wants him to get back as soon as possible now.