{"id":121805,"date":"2025-08-31T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121805\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:43:09","slug":"ruben-amorim-concerned-about-double-injury-blow-man-utd-star-played-30-minutes-with-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121805\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim &#8216;concerned&#8217; about double injury blow, Man Utd star played 30 minutes with knock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manchester United were dealt a double injury blow on Saturday as they recorded their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>After a slow start to the season, winless in the first three games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/match-coverage\/five-things-learned-as-manchester-united-beat-burnley-3-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United beat Burnley 3-2<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/old-trafford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Old Trafford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils hosted Scott Parker\u2019s side and bounced back from an embarrassing defeat to Grimsby Town in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/carabao-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carabao Cup<\/a> second round on Wednesday night. It was a timely victory as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> breaks for the upcoming round of internationals.<\/p>\n<p>United opened the scoring thanks to a Josh Cullen own goal in the 27th minute, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/bryan-mbeumo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> scored his first Premier League goal for the club in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The game went into stoppage time with the scoreline 2-2, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/amad-diallo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amad Diallo<\/a> was fouled inside the box and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/bruno-fernandes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Fernandes<\/a> secured the win from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2232883496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Matheus Cunha crossing the ball against Burnley\" class=\"wp-image-294886\" \/>Photo by Jan Kruger\/Getty ImagesRuben Amorim provides update on Matheus Cunha and Mason Mount<\/p>\n<p>Although United recorded their first win of the season, leaving fans happy as they left Old Trafford, there were a few negatives to take from the game.<\/p>\n<p>United made hard work of their win over Burnley, conceded two avoidable goals but also suffered two injury blows.<\/p>\n<p>New signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/matheus-cunha\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matheus Cunha<\/a> pulled up during the first half, minutes after taking the lead. The Brazil international wasted no time gesturing over to the bench that he would need to come off before walking straight down the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/mason-mount\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Mount<\/a> was taken off at the break, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United\u2019s head coach<\/a> later revealing that he played with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in his post-match interview about Cunha and Mount, Amorim admitted he is concerned about the United duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard to lose Cunha and Mason Mount, because Mason Mount played 30 minutes with an injury,\u201d Amorim told Sky Sports, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/ruben-amorim-provides-injury-update-on-matheus-cunha-after-burnley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ManUtd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned about that, because they are so important for us. We will see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amorim was then asked how long he expected to be without both players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know [how they are], I don\u2019t know. We will check them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need those guys really bad to be really competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunha was replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/joshua-zirkzee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Zirkzee<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/kobbie-mainoo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobbie Mainoo<\/a> came on at half-time for Mount amid speculation over the 20-year-old\u2019s future at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Cunha spotted leaving Old Trafford<\/p>\n<p>The players left Old Trafford after full-time, with many fans outside to greet them.<\/p>\n<p>One fan was quick enough to get a video of Cunha, and he appeared to be walking fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/club\/manchester-united-fans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United fans<\/a> will hope that it\u2019s nothing serious because Cunha has shown glimpses of brilliance since the season started. It\u2019s just a matter of requiring more games to fully settle in.<\/p>\n<p>This news will likely see Cunha pull out of the Brazil squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United were dealt a double injury blow on Saturday as they recorded their first win of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[48222,19432,22710,1084,7794,403,99],"class_list":["post-121805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-manchester-united-injury-news","tag-mason-mount","tag-matheus-cunha","tag-premier-league","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}