Ole sweating over crocked United pair

OLE Gunnar Solskjaer says United will have to wait a few days to determine the extent of Anthony Martial’s and Jesse Lingard’s injuries.

The pair both suffered muscular problems in United’s 2-0 Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain and were forced off before the second half began.

The enforced substitutions of Lingard and Martial proved pivotal, particularly since their replacements Alexis Sanchez and Juan Mata failed to perform and PSG scored twice within the first 15 minutes of the second half.

United travel to Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Monday and host Liverpool in the Premier League on February 24.

Solskjaer was unable to expand on the severity of Martial’s and Lingard’s injuries.

“Jesse and Anthony give us something, let’s hope they’re not too serious,” Solskjaer said.

“They’re muscle injuries, so we’ll just have to wait a couple of days.

“They [PSG] had the momentum after the first goal and controlled the game. You could see that we hadn’t played at this level for a while and we will have to learn. It was an experience that can go either way, it’s not going to be a season-defining one, it’s one we have to learn from.”

Ander Herrera was asked about the loss of Martial and Lingard in his post-match interview.

“I think we lost some pace but we won some combinations with Alexis and Juan,” Herrera said.

“So I don’t know if that was the right analysis because I think we were pressing okay.

“They were not feeling good on the ball but the goal made the difference because after that they played counter-attack and tried to find the gaps in behind our defenders.

“And after the goal we had some shots and crosses but we didn’t shoot good enough and we didn’t have too many people in the box.

“We are positive and optimistic, we are in a good moment, we are building something good, we are going to continue like that. It will be a tough night and tomorrow a tough day, but our priority is to focus on the top four and fight in the FA Cup.”