Manchester United has a number of injury doubts ahead of their Premier League fixture at Watford on Saturday.

Raphael Varane (hamstring) and Paul Pogba (thigh) are out whereas Luke Shaw has not appeared in training footage this week after he suffered a concussion within the defeat to Manchester City 13 days in the past.

Edinson Cavani missed the City match and was not included within the Uruguay squad for his or her World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Argentina due to a tendon injury.

"This week has been actually optimistic," United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said. "There are a few doubts with diseases and small niggles. Paul is out for some time, Rapha is out for some time, other than that players will likely be coming again within the close to future, some this weekend, some within the week, however, that is the identical for different players."

Solskjaer returned to his native Norway within the first week of the international fortnight whereas a variety of United players who weren't concerned for his or her nations launched into breaks overseas.

The United board has resisted sacking Solskjaer however are believed to have begun the method to determine a successor after a woeful beginning to the season.

Regardless of 4 defeats within the last six Premier League games, Solskjaer was characteristically upbeat at his pre-match press convention.

"In fact, I have been involved and communicated with the club as I do on a regular basis anyway," he clarified. "It has been a protracted international break nevertheless it's one which we have utilized and used to our profit, we really feel. It has been a great response from the players who've are available and we're prepared for the Watford game.

"Worldwide breaks are at all times intervals to refresh and to maintain engaged on various things. This time round we had just a few players having to drag out, so fairly just a few of them have been right here doing particular person classes, recovery classes, rehab classes, some players had been allowed to go overseas to go to their families.

"It is the identical case on a regular basis once we come within the week earlier than we begin the game once more, everybody's shiny and prepared. This week has been a great week, we have had a chance to work on fairly just a few issues with everybody.

"The players, the workers, myself, the club, we're working in direction of one goal and that is for this team to enhance, to get higher outcomes. Fans are nonetheless supporting the team and the club, they have been by means of this era, backed the team by means of the rebuild.

"If you lose a game, you are at all times disappointed and beneath stress. We have been speaking nicely, overtly, and actually, as we at all times do. There's one game that issues and it is also what goes on after that.

"We're all refreshed. This week has been actually good for training and we're prepared for tomorrow.

"In fact, we all know that with a poor run of the kind we put ourselves beneath stress, that stress needs to be a pleasure, it needs to be one thing that makes us a greater team, makes each player carry out at the very best degree and it is a game we should always go into and take pleasure in.

"I do not know what number of games we have had away from home. In fact, we lost to Leicester, however the unbeaten away file we gathered earlier than that's one thing we have to draw confidence from.

"We have three away games now, with Watford the primary one. Watford is a really large game, as each game within the Premier League is."