Manchester United winger Ashley Young has been ruled out for two to three weeks while Phil Jones "doesn't look great" after the England duo sustained injuries during the 5-0 win at Fulham.
Young was hurt while tackling Dickson Etuhu, picking up an unspecified injury that Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed will sideline him until January and Jones damaged his jaw after being elbowed by Clint Dempsey while competing for the ball in mid-air, but Ferguson did not give an estimate for his time in the treatment room.
"The tackle on Ashley Young was a very aggressive tackle and I will have to see that again," Ferguson told MUTV. "Fulham were very aggressive in the second half and Ashley Young has paid the price for that. He has got a sore one so will be out for two to three weeks."
He added: "On Phil Jones it was an elbow from Dempsey, but I don't think it was intentional. But he caught him with an elbow.
"We are sending him for an X-ray tomorrow and it doesn't look great. We are picking up injuries at the moment."
Ferguson revealed that Rio Ferdinand was omitted from the starting line-up for tonight's 5-0 Barclays Premier League victory at Craven Cottage because of a foot injury.
The England defender will miss the clash with Wigan on Boxing Day, but should return in time to face Blackburn on New Year's Eve.
"Rio got a knock on the foot against QPR. I think he will be available for Blackburn, not Wigan," said Ferguson.
Danny Welbeck, Nani and Ryan Giggs were on target in a first half that was dominated by United, with Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov completing the rout after the interval.
"We played some superb football in the first half," said Ferguson. "It's not an easy place to come. We have experienced that in the last three years. We have got one point from nine here so that shows you the difficulties. But the players were really on song and just continued their form from a great display against QPR."
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You have to take the rough with the smooth , teams will give you a hard game , so expect no easy passage , although for the first 50 mins. Fulham gave United time and space to waltz along the park at ease without too many hefty challenges. If you call those two challenges intentional , Fergie is about to reaffirm ,then you haven't seen Stoke or Bolton in full action when on song , then football becomes a war , see Everton at home when its Christmas time , they don't want to give anything away , so when you visit United expect 12th player for United
with either Halsey, Webb , Jones , etc etc refeering with utter bias in favour of United , 100%.....EVERYONE KNOWS IT SO DOES THE F.A. and U.E.F.A.
At Fulham , United cruised in the first half so easily I thought it was 11 v 5/6 , so ineffective were Fulham , no backbone , no tackling , chasing shadows , no 1 v 1 on defence , no direspect to United but Fulham gave the
domination to United from the kick-off , that's how easy it seemed.
Fergie is now sitting in his office writing a complaint to F.A. of the way the game went , that his madonnas were victims of wholescale assualts on the scale of 9/10 similar to Rooneys deliberate assualt on Shafkin the Montenegran , who is sending Rooney Christmas cards with apologies for being the ' fallen victim' , and getting in Wayne's World Way.
What is the world coming to , that Fergal can dominate the Media and condones players from other teams for
being on the pitch with United and not showing them respect , but elbowing , diving , falsely accusing , ref. baiting, criminal assault on officials and supporters , scoring offside goals , handballing goal-lines shots, punching the balls ,barging goalies from corners , swearing at refs. ,accusing refs. of bad decissions , all those accusations are prevalent NOT IN THE OPPONENTS BUT FERGIE OWN TEAM MEMBERS , THE BIGGEST LOAD OF CON-ARTISTS WE HAVE EVER SEEN.............FAIR AND MODES
Absolutely loved Berbatov's cheeky back heel goal...pure class!!
we have to out play every team
it is fantastic and enjoyable
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