Wes Brown's suspected broken metatarsal has added to Manchester
United's injury woes ahead of AC Milan's visit on Wednesday night.
Brown picked up the injury against Wolves on Saturday and
there are concerns that the England defender may have broken his
fifth metatarsal, the one that takes the longest to heal.
Although Brown should have recovered in time for the World
Cup, the timing is bad for Sir Alex Ferguson with Wayne Rooney
doubtful for the Champions League game after hurting his knee on
England duty last week and Michael Owen out for the season.
Anderson (knee), Ryan Giggs (arm) and John O'Shea (leg) are
also out while Jonny Evans missed the Wolves game.
Ferguson has already confirmed Dimitar Berbatov is likely to
start against Milan, saying: "Rooney is very doubtful for the Milan
game unfortunately. It's one of these bad bits of luck you get -
the Wembley pitch has just killed him.
"I was pleased with how Berbatov did against Wolves though
and I'll probably start with him on Wednesday."
United have yet to overcome Milan in the Champions League
with the Italians always emerging as victors from the two-legged
ties, most recently in 2007 when having lost 3-2 in the first leg
at Old Trafford, they won 3-0 in the San Siro.
United again have a 3-2 advantage but this time with the away
goals counting in their favour, and keeper Edwin van der Sar has
warned that they cannot afford to make any mistakes this time.
He told the club's website: "It's not a case of owing Milan
one, but we will want to make sure we don't make the same mistakes
we did a few years ago when they knocked us out at the semi-final
stage.
"They played particularly well in the home leg here when we
won 3-2 and Kaka scored two goals. Then at the San Siro, Clarence
Seedorf was fantastic - he was excellent in both games actually.
But we got a good result in Milan and now we need to finish it off
with a magic night at Old Trafford."
