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The Belgian may not recover in time to return to the Manchester United squad to play Juventus, Jose Mourinho has admitted.
Lukaku was dropped for last weekend’s win over his former club Everton and did not make the 18 for Saturday’s 2-1 comeback victory at Bournemouth in the Premier League.
The striker has been enduring a poor run of form, having not scored for United since the middle of September, and could miss the Champions League trip to Turin due to injury.
United face the Serie A champions on Wednesday and Mourinho cannot be certain whether the Belgium striker will be ready to travel.
“I have to wait until Monday,” said the Portuguese after Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford struck in Lukaku’s absence at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.
“He needs these couple of days. It was something in training. We don’t know, a muscle problem, and we have to wait a little bit.”
United have kept just one clean sheet in the Premier League this season and their leaky defence was regularly exposed by Bournemouth.