Bad news for all Manchester United fans as the club will need to again use a makeshift defence when they tackle Wolfsburg in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
Injuries to defender Wes Brown, Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, John O’Shea and Jonny Evans were made worse with the news that Nemanja Vidic did not make the trip to Germany because of a flu.
It leaves manager Sir Alex Ferguson with a headache on who to play in the back four although the quarter he used against West Ham on the weekend seemed to work fine.
Sir Alex used veteran winger Ryan Giggs on the left, Michael Carrick and Patrice Evra in the centre and Darren Fletcher on the right and they managed to keep the Hammers goalless but it remains to be seen which way he will go in a European fixture.