Edinson Cavani has been dropped from Manchester United’s travelling team that will play their opening Champions League game against Young Boys on Tuesday. According to reports, the player had a “minor injury” and so was left out of the travelling team.
The Uruguayan striker picked up the knock in training in the build-up to their last Premier League game, which ended 4-1 with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a brace. Manchester United head Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Cavani will be sidelined for a “week or so”.
United, however, added nineteen-year-old Swedish striker Anthony Elanga in the 22-man squad, alongside 21-year-old goalkeeper Matej Kovar. Portugal forward Ronaldo, who scored twice at the weekend on his first game back for the club, has been named in the squad for his first Champions League trip with the Reds as well.
It will be his first Champions League with the tea since the 2009 final, in which they were beaten 2-0 by Barcelona.
Manchester United Travelling Squad with Cavani Missing
De Gea, Heaton, Kovar, Bailly, Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, Varane, Wan-Bissaka; Fernandes, Fred, Lingard, Mata, Matic, Pogba, Sancho, Van de Beek; Elanga, Greenwood, Martial, Ronaldo.
