Benjamin Sesko’s shin injury is ‘not something anyone must be concerned about’ with the Manchester United striker hoping to be available against Sunderland this weekend.
The Slovenia international is approaching the top of his first season in England, scoring his 12th goal of the campaign in Sunday’s 3-2 victory over arch-rivals Liverpool.
Midway through the first-half, the striker was chasing a protracted ball towards the byline when he was shoved by Ibrahima Konate, taking a nasty spill down the notorious dip across the Old Trafford pitch. The 22-year-old crashed through a pitch-side microphone and into the promoting boards.
Sesko didn’t emerge for the second-half with Amad Diallo onto replace him with Kobbie Mainoo’s 77th minute strike eventually settling the competition.
Speaking after the sport, Michael Carrick confirmed his striker had suffered ‘a bang on the shin’, aggravating a previous issue he had been carrying.
‘He’s been carrying a little bit of a shin problem for a while, and it was once we got pushed into the hoarding and down the dip. In order that was it,’ the United boss said.
Victory over Liverpool confirmed United’s place in next season’s Champions League with three games to spare but Carrick will want a powerful finish to make sure he stays within the dugout next season, starting with a visit to the Stadium of Light on Saturday.
Carrick might be expected to supply an update on his player when he speaks to the media on Friday afternoon.
While Sesko was left in some pain last weekend, it’s unlikely to be an injury that keeps him out for long.
‘Shin problems might be generally one to a few various things,’ Stephen Smith, CEO and founding father of Kitman Labs which specialises in injury welfare and performance analytics, told Metro.
‘They’re all relatively similar. It’s less prone to be something like shin splints. In long distance runners, or athletes which have exposure to big running distances very often, there is usually a build-up of small micro-trauma along the muscles on the front of the shin and that causes pain and a few swelling and inflammation. It’s unlikely to be that.
‘He had a superb bang on the shin. Swelling occurs, bruising occurs, then each time you are trying to run, you’re irritating it. From the bone perspective, should you got a kick on the front of the shin it might probably cause significant bone bruising.
‘The load coming through your leg may cause a number of irritation around that area. It is probably going he had some trauma in that area recently, potentially some bone bruising and because it was healing, he has just got a bang in the identical place [against Liverpool] which means it can require some management.
‘Whether it is trauma-related or bruising-related, it might probably be painful nevertheless it just isn’t a serious injury, not something anyone must be really concerned about. It’s nearly pain management.
‘it’s as much as them to determine whether it is sore enough to the purpose where it’ll cause more inflammation and more discomfort. Or if the pain easing enough to get through a game. But they might be managing all that, it’s a really manageable injury.’
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