{"id":58062,"date":"2023-04-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/15\/man-utd-defender-lisandro-martinez-out-for-rest-of-season\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:30:00","slug":"man-utd-defender-lisandro-martinez-out-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/15\/man-utd-defender-lisandro-martinez-out-for-rest-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd defender Lisandro Martinez out for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/129367138_gettyimages-1251792314-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Lisandro Martinez has made 45 appearances for Manchester United since joining the club last summer\" title=\"Lisandro Martinez has made 45 appearances for Manchester United since joining the club last summer\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisandro Martinez has made 45 appearances for Manchester United since joining the club last summer<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manchester United centre-back, Lisandro Martinez will miss the rest of the season after fracturing a metatarsal bone in his foot.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old sustained the injury in United\u2019s\u00a02-2 Europa League quarter-final\u00a0against Sevilla on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag\u2019s side were reduced to 10 men when Martinez was helped off in the 86th minute with United leading 2-1.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s centre-back partner Raphael Varane also sustained an injury and is expected to be out for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone at Manchester United sends Lisandro and Rapha our best wishes for a speedy recovery,\u201d the club said.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, a World Cup winner with Argentina, was helped off the pitch at Old Trafford by Sevilla\u2019s Gonzalo Montiel and Marcos Acuna, his international teammates.<\/p>\n<p>He was then placed on a stretcher and carried away for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez joined United from Ajax last July in a deal worth up to \u00a357m and has played in 27 of United\u2019s Premier League matches this season.<\/p>\n<p>France defender Varane, who joined the club from Real Madrid in August 2021, has made 21 league appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>He picked up an injury just before half-time and was replaced by Harry Maguire at the interval.<\/p>\n<p>United are fourth in the Premier League with nine games remaining and the club are still in the FA Cup as well as the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before United\u2019s league game against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, manager Ten Hag said: \u201cWe have a lot of decent centre-halves. We have proved in the past and in this season that we have four or five very good centre-halves who can do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Centre-backs Maguire and Victor Lindelof are the likely options to fill in for Martinez and Varane.<\/p>\n<p>Left-back Luke Shaw, who has played at centre-back at times this season, has missed the past two games with a hamstring injury but Ten Hag said the England international could return on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The club are also without their top scorer Marcus Rashford, who sustained a muscle injury in United\u2019s win over Everton on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After the Forest game, United travel to Sevilla on Thursday for the return leg of their Europa League quarter-final before facing Brighton three days later in an FA Cup semi-final, for which Maguire is suspended.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TNoQUsyZ3_I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth allegedly attack teachers for caning JHS 3 students who stayed out of class (14-4-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TNoQUsyZ3_I?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisandro Martinez has made 45 appearances for Manchester United since joining the club last summer Manchester United centre-back, Lisandro Martinez will miss the rest of the season after fracturing a metatarsal bone in his foot. 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