{"id":266609,"date":"2026-01-27T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:26:07","slug":"manchester-uniteds-patrick-dorgu-to-be-out-for-weeks-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266609\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s Patrick Dorgu to be out for weeks with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United&#8217;s Patrick Dorgu is likely to be out for a number of weeks after injuring his hamstring during Sunday&#8217;s 3-2 win at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old, who lashed in United&#8217;s second goal from the edge of the box, limped off in the closing stages of the match with what interim head coach Michael Carrick hoped was cramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is more significant than that but sources say the Denmark international is still being assessed and the timescale for his absence is not clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The in-form Dorgu, who joined United as a wing-back from Italian club Lecce 12 months ago, has excelled in an advanced left-sided attacking role under Carrick, and also scored in the previous win over Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United have eight Premier League games before the March international break, when Dorgu is expected to be involved for Denmark in the World Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorgu&#8217;s absence could lead to a greater role for Matheus Cunha, who has started United&#8217;s past two games on the substitutes&#8217; bench but scored the winner against Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s Patrick Dorgu is likely to be out for a number of weeks after injuring his hamstring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-266609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}