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30th November 2018
03:31pm GMT
It means that he'll miss some key matches for Manchester United but, truthfully, a lot of fans won't be too bothered that they'll miss him standing motionless on the left and sinking the ball straight off a defender.
United have games coming up against his former club Arsenal and trip to Anfield on December 16 too but Mourinho is fearing that the 29-year-old will be out for a long time.
But it's not like his record has been too prolific for his new club, with Chris Smalling hitting the net more times in this calendar year.
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This injury comes just days after United lost in-form defender Victor Lindelöf to a thigh strain. The Swede is also expected to be out for a similar amount of time, returning just after the turn of the year.
“There have been 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," Mourinho said.
“It is not the little muscular injury that in one week or 10 days the player is ready. It is, for me and also for Alexis, the feelings before the scans is that the grade [of tear] is different than the Lindelof one and the Lindelof one was not an easy one so Alexis has what I used to call an aggressive muscular injury. He has an important injury. From the top of my experience he is not playing this year.”
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