Manchester United defender Eric Bailly sustains another injury

Eric Bailly will have a knee injury assessed upon Manchester Uniteds return home after Ole Gunnar Solskjaers side ended their tour of Australia and Asia with a win against Tottenham.Three years after their Beijing friendly against Manchester City was cancelled, the Red Devils finally stepped out on Chinese soil once again.Anthony Martial saw his first-half opener cancelled out by Spurs Lucas Moura in sweltering Shanghai, where Angel Gomes sealed a 2-1 victory as United returned home with four wins from as many games. View this post on Instagram Another W on #MUTOUR 2019! #ICC2019A post shared by Manchester United (@manchesterunited) on Jul 25, 2019 at 6:26am PDTIt was a largely positive and productive tour, but it ended with Bailly getting injured 11 minutes after his half-time introduction.The centre-back, who missed the end of last season due to medial ligament damage, left the field on a stretcher and looked in some distress.United boss Solskjaer said: Its never nice when you get an injury.Its not worth it when you lose one. Hes done his knee but were not sure how bad it so of course we need to get back to Manchester and do the scans. Lets just hope for the best. Man Utd 2-0 Perth GloryMan Utd 4-0 LeedsMan Utd 1-0 Inter MilanMan Utd 2-1 Tottenham Weve had six centre-backs rotating here and theyve all done well.Phil (Jones) has played the first three games, it was his turn (to be rested) today.I thought Marcos (Rojo) and Chris (Smalling) really took their chance, played well first half. We looked very assured at the back.So, of course, youre never happy when you get injuries. Lets hope its not too bad for Eric. View this post on Instagram More minutes in the tank #MUFC #MUTOUR #ICC2019A post shared by Manchester United (@manchesterunited) on Jul 25, 2019 at 9:02am PDTUnited were perhaps fortunate not to have a worse injury list after a friendly that at times was anything but, with Dele Alli, Moussa Sissoko and Andreas Pereira all guilty of poor first-half challenges.Its a competitive sport and were preparing for the league and thats why we have referees, Solskjaer said.I thought it was a very good preparation for getting ready for the league. No tippy-toey football. You went in to tackle when youre supposed to tackle, so I have no qualms about some of the tackles.Yeah, youre worried but theres no injuries we also gave, we didnt just receive. I thought it was a very good game. View this post on Instagram Marvellous @Martial_9 wins our Man of the Match award! #MUFC #MUTOUR #ICC2019A post shared by Manchester United (@manchesterunited) on Jul 25, 2019 at 7:26am PDTSissokos challenge on Daniel James looked particularly bad and led to a melee in the corner.The summer signing has been subject to rough tackling in every game during the tour but has dusted himself down well.Of course we want them to be looked after but its also a mans sport, Solskjaer said. We cant lose tackling in football. As long as you tackle fairly. Dan is so quick and its not easy to time tackles and challenges against him, so I can understand why players mistime their tackles against him.Hes a brave little boy and he jumps. Hes taken a few knocks over the tour but as an old man I like to see tackles in the game.He gets up. Theres no rolling about, or diving or anything like this. If he stays down, hes injured. But he gets up when hes just hurt. Theres a difference between being hurt and injured.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
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