Eric Bailly's ankle injury is 'serious'- Jose Mourinho
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| Eric Bailly |
The 23-year-old centre-back, who Mourinho said was injured
while on international duty with the Ivory Coast, has not played for United
since the defeat at Chelsea on 5 November.
He is not expected to miss the rest of the season.
"I don't want to be so pessimistic. I want to leave
it with a doctor," said
Mourinho.
"We are trying a conservative treatment. If the
conservative treatment is not resulting, probably he will have a surgery
procedure but let's wait a little bit more."
Chris Smalling and Phil Jones started Wednesday's 1-0 win over Bournemouth, and
Mourinho said he was happy with his options at centre-back.
"During the whole season, we've had problems with
central defenders but because the number is four or five, we manage always to
have [players available] and Chris Smalling is playing amazingly well for seven
or eight matches in a row maybe, so we are fine."
Bailly was the first player to sign for United after
Mourinho took over as manager, joining from Villarreal in the summer of 2016 for
£30m.
FROM
BBCNEWS/SPORTS.co.uk
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