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Varane suffered the injury during Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw with Chelsea<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Manchester United manager, Erik Ten Hag, has confirmed Cristiano Ronaldo will be part of the squad to face FC Sheriff today but also said Raphael Varane\u2019s injury means he is in doubt for the World Cup.<\/p>\n Ronaldo returned to training with the first-team squad on Tuesday after being dropped for the draw at Chelsea as punishment for refusing to come on as a substitute against Tottenham.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old is in contention to face FC Sheriff, but Varane will miss out after suffering a knee injury at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n \u201cCristiano will be in the squad,\u201d Ten Hag said in a news conference. \u201cI think we said everything and we answered all the questions. He was out for one game and is back in the squad as usual.<\/p>\n \u201cWe explained everything and we have to focus on the game tomorrow (today). We have an important game because we want to be number one in the group. It\u2019s done, he\u2019s back, and the focus is on the game. It\u2019s important that Cristiano is involved in the squad tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Varane will not play for United before the World Cup, and Ten Hag said the France defender is doubtful for the tournament in Qatar due to its commence next month.<\/p>\n \u201cHe will certainly be out until the World Cup, so he will not play in this block for Man United,\u201d Ten Hag added. \u201cWe have to wait and see how it develops [ahead of the World Cup] and how his rehab develops.\u201d<\/p>\n Varane\u2019s injury represents a chance for Harry Maguire to win back his place after the centre-back returned to training this week.<\/p>\n Maguire hasn\u2019t played since picking up a thigh injury during the international break but is now set to compete with Victor Lindelof for a place in defence next to Lisandro Martinez.<\/p>\n \u201cHe always has an important role,\u201d Ten Hag said. \u201cIt\u2019s always about performance, about presentation, and I think regarding his qualities, when he\u2019s acting like that, no problem.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a great player with great capabilities to do a job for us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Varane suffered the injury during Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw with Chelsea \u00a0 Manchester United manager, Erik Ten Hag, has confirmed Cristiano Ronaldo will be part of the squad to face FC Sheriff today but also said Raphael Varane\u2019s injury means he is in doubt for the World Cup. Ronaldo returned to training with the first-team squad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1236090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,14436,60,2298,28113,784],"class_list":["post-1236088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-doubtful","tag-returns","tag-ronaldo","tag-varane","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}