Manchester United's treatment room is getting awfully crowded.
Marouane Fellaini has joined the likes of Paul Pogba, Marcos Rojo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the injured list, while Romelu Lukaku isn't expected to spend too long on the sidelines with the ankle injury he picked up while on international duty.
Manager Jose Mourinho will be hoping to see some of his superstars return sooner rather than later if United are to continue their terrific start to his sophomore season in charge.
Luckily, according to
Football 365, the targeted return game for Ibrahimovic, the club's top scorer last season, is not too far away.
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Ibrahimovic is expected to make his comeback from his ACL injury on December 2 which, in case you didn't already know, is the very day that the Red Devils travel to the Emirates to take on arch-rivals Arsenal.
Fixtures between United and Arsenal are always some of the most anticipated among supporters of both sides, given the fiery battles that took place in the early 2000s.
"I feel good," Ibrahimovic recently said during an interview with
Inside United.
"I have trained every day since I had my knee operated on, there is no vacation.
"It's a new challenge but I am strong mentally and when I focus on an objective nothing can stop me.
"I will go through everything, it doesn't matter what's in my way, I will break everything to reach my goal.
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"When I come back to play football on the field I will be better than before, I am not coming back because I am the one I am, I am coming back to be a better version of the old one. Imagine how that will be!
"If we talk specifically about the injury then I have never felt any pain, the only thing I have felt is a strange feeling in my movement that obviously showed something was wrong in the knee.
"Now we're building it up and it's getting stronger.
"I feel good and I feel my movements are there. If it was up to me I would like to play football today but it doesn't work like that.
"I need to have patience and that's the way we work. We are in no rush, when we are ready we will be ready.
"When I am playing again I don't want any excuses that I was injured, or 'he just came back, this is his first game'.
"No - I want to feel the same pressure I had before because everything happened. I am looking forward to that moment."
