Ibrahimovic Ruled Out For A Month – Mourinho

manchester united supervisor jose mourinho has discovered zlatan ibrahimovic can be out of action for a month, however he hopes to have romelu lukaku returned quickly following his head damage.

ibrahimovic went off at 1/2-time in united’s boxing day draw against burnley, however mourinho did no longer reveal the character of the injury in order to maintain the previous paris saint-germain celebrity sidelined during january.

“zlatan one month out,” mourinho instructed bt sport following saturday’s zero-zero draw against southampton.

ibrahimovic had best lately got lower back into the united group after missing the first half of of the season even as he recovered from a critical knee harm suffered in april.

with ibrahimovic out for a extended period, mourinho may want to have completed with out belgian ahead lukaku being stretchered off inside the first half towards southampton after a clash of heads with wesley hoedt.

he lay inclined at the pitch barely shifting even as he changed into treated by using scientific team of workers for 5 minutes.

lukaku remained conscious and changed into subsequently carried off wearing an oxygen masks.

but mourinho claimed lukaku wasn’t critically harm.

“that’s soccer,” jose mourinho advised mutv. “he changed into simply unlucky. i assume the dutch significant defender is going with him for the ball and it’s unlucky for romelu and unfortunate for hoedt.

“it become nothing aggressive and, with a bit of luck, nothing critical. but the first consequence is he didn’t play for the relaxation of the sport.”

united’s in shape is away to lukaku’s former club everton on monday, new yr’s day.

mourinho’s men will go into that fit on a run of 3 successive league draws.

the united boss felt his group need to were given a penalty for handball towards southampton and he took a swipe at referee craig pawson.

“i think it is also a frustrating afternoon for craig because he’s a superb referee, one of the maximum promising referees in europe. i experience terrible for him,” mourinho said.

“we neglected clean chances however there was a clean penalty that wasn’t given.”