Van Gaal confirms four injuries for Chelsea clash

Louis van Gaal has confirmed that Manchester United will be
without Michael Carrick, Marcos Rojo, Phil Jones and Daley
Blind for Saturday’s Barclays Premier League blockbuster with
Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Carrick picked up an injury in the second half of last Sunday’s
4-2 win over Manchester City and has not recovered in time to
face Jose Mourinho’s leaders in West London. However, Luke
Shaw is fit and available for selection for the first time since
appearing in last month's FA Cup sixth-round defeat to
Arsenal, when he was replaced at half-time.
"Carrick is injured, he cannot play," the boss told MUTV at the
Aon Training Complex. "But not only Michael Carrick - Daley
Blind, Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo cannot play. It cannot be
worse because it's two players in the left central defensive
positions, and Jonny Evans is still suspended. Blind and
Carrick play in the holding position in midfield, so I have to
change my line-up a lot against Chelsea."
Asked to explain how Rojo, Jones and Blind got injured, van
Gaal said: "They are all from the game against Manchester
City. Blind has played on because he always wants to play on,
but the tackle from [Vincent] Kompany was of course the
reason.
"Jones, I took him off the pitch already because he injured
himself in the second half. Rojo, he was complaining after the
match, and Carrick was also off. So it's not surprising, but we
had a big hope that Blind and Jones could reach this game but
they could not."
The boss also hinted that Robin van Persie may feature in
some capacity: "Shaw has trained for a lot of weeks already so
he can play. Van Persie is another story. This is the first week
he's trained with the first team, but maybe we have to think
about him.