Alexis Sánchez suffers hamstring injury that could rule him out until January

He could be out until the new year

Alexis Sánchez has suffered a hamstring injury that could rule him out until January. The Manchester United forward sustained the injury in training on Thursday. The Chilean let out what Jose Mourinho called a "painful scream" as he suffered the tear during a training session at Carrington. Sánchez will undergo a scan today, but he is expected to be out for at least six weeks, and will therefore miss the busy Christmas period, during which United will play four matches in 13 days. Sánchez will also miss matches against his former club Arsenal and United's trip to Anfield on December 16th. This injury comes just days after United lost in-form defender Victor Lindelöf to a thigh strain. The Swede is also expected to be out for a similar amount of time, returning just after the turn of the year.

“There have been no scans yet but the player is experienced, the player knows what the injury is and also from the top of my experience, just the painful scream and the way the injury happened, I know it’s going to be for a long time," Mourinho said.

“It is not the little muscular injury that in one week or 10 days the player is ready. It is, for me and also for Alexis, the feelings before the scans is that the grade [of tear] is different than the Lindelof one and the Lindelof one was not an easy one so Alexis has what I used to call an aggressive muscular injury. He has an important injury. From the top of my experience he is not playing this year.”

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Alexis Sánchez suffers hamstring injury that could rule him out until January

He could be out until the new year

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