DIOGO DALOT could miss the rest of Manchester United’s season after suffering a calf injury.
The wing-back is ruled out of Sunday's Premier League trip to Bournemouth and is a major doubt for both legs of the semi-final against Athletic Bilbao – the first leg is on Thursday in Spain.
In an injury-plagued season for , Dalot has been one of their most reliable players fitness-wise.
The Portugal international, 26, has made more starts than any other United player and has featured in 51 of the club's 52 games in all competitions – plus seven more for his country.
But boss fears his compatriot’s heavy work load has finally caught up with him.
Amorim said: “Diogo is out. We don’t know how long he’s going to be out but he’s out for these next games.”;
Asked if he will miss the rest of the campaign, the manager added: “There is that possibility but I don’t know.
“We’ll check week by week because he works really hard and he recovers quite well but we’ll see.
“He has a problem with his muscle in his calf. He had a sequence of games, he played all the time.
“We tried to manage it but some of the players have to play a lot of minutes and we have to protect the ones that we think are not so ready to cope with that, but felt something.”;
Better news for goal-shy United is that – who has scored nine this season – could be fit for the Bilbao game after making a quicker than expected recovery from damaged ankle ligaments.
The injury has kept him out of action since February 7 and it was feared he would be out for the season.
Centre-back is also closing in on a return with Amorim saying: “Amad is near and so is Matha [De Ligt].”;
But young defender Ayden Heaven is still some way off a return after injuring his knee in the 3-0 win at Leicester last month.
