Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has revealed Armenian attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan will likely return for the club's FA Cup quarter final trip to Chelsea next Monday night.
Mkhitaryan picked up an injury after scoring in United's recent win over Saint-Etienne, and he missed the EFL Cup final win last week because of the issue - picking up a hamstring injury in France shortly after scoring.
He will miss the game with Bournemouth on Saturday as well as, most likely, United's trip to Russia to play Rostov on Thursday, but the United manager told MUTVhe envisions a return for the former Dortmund manat Stamford Bridge:"Mkhitaryan is still out.He didn't recover in time for this game.
"I believe, during the next week, especially for the weekend [ahead of the trip to Stamford Bridge], he will be fine and we don't have major problems. Bastian (Schweinsteiger) has a little thing but, apart from that, everybody is fine."
United face an extremely congested fixture list over the coming months given their commitments in the Premier League, Europa League and FA Cup, and Mourinho has promised his squad that he will rotate the lineup in order to keep everyone fresh.
He added:"I told them [the squad] already a player that is not even selected can start the next match and this is the reality.
"We have to go match after match. If we decide not to give a priority to any competition, as we've said every competition is important, we cannot choose this team to play this match and that team to play that one. We have to go match after match and make readjustments and try to be as strong as possible."
For more great content, subscribe to 90min on YouTube, and follow @_scottsaunders on Twitter!