Matches Sanchez will miss: Mourinho speaks out on Sanchez injury

Manchester United star Alexis Sanchez has suffered a hamstring injury in training on Thursday and will require further tests to confirm its severity, the club have announced in the morning. The Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho has said that Sanchez is unlikely to play again this year due to injury. “The first thing I can say is that in every club when a player is not playing it is a simple manager’s decision. In our club when a player does not play it is always because the player is not behaving and has disciplinary issues. Of course, that is not the case again,” said Mourinho. “He has an important injury, I don’t want to risk by saying for how long he will be out but from the top of my experience I would say he is not playing this year.” Mourinho also has confirmed that the play is yet to have a scan. “No scans yet. But the player is experienced, the player knows what the injury is and also from the top of my experience, just the painful scream and the way the injury happened I know it’s going to be for a long time,” said the boss. “It’s not the little muscular injury that in one week or 10 days the player is ready, is for me and also for Alexis, the feelings before the scans is that the grade is different than the Lindelof one and the Lindelof one was not an easy one so I think Alexis has what I used to call an aggressive muscular injury.” Matches Sanchez will miss

• December 1: Southampton (a)
• December 5: Arsenal (h)
• December 8: Fulham (h)
• December 12: Valencia (a)
• December 16: Liverpool (a)
• December 22: Cardiff (a)
• December 26: Huddersfield (h)
• December 30: Bournemouth (h)

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