Wayne Rooney has been ruled out of Manchester United’s upcoming games against West Ham United and Wolfsburg because of an ankle injury.
Louis van Gaal confirmed the striker’s injury, which he suffered in the 1-1 draw at Leicester City last Saturday, was worse than feared.
Rooney, 30, who has played 499 games for the club, will miss Saturday’s home game against West Ham and the Uefa Champions League fixture in Wolfsburg, where United must win to guarantee a spot in the knockout stages next Tuesday.
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“It’s a nasty injury. He shall not play his 500th game [on Saturday] because he is more injured than I thought so we have to wait for that game,” the United manager said.
“His ankle is not good enough and we have to recover that ankle with a lot of strength. He has to do a lot of exercises to make his ankle stronger. He needs more time.”
When asked if Rooney would miss the match at Wolfsburg, Van Gaal said: “Yes, I think so.”
Van Gaal also confirmed defender Marcos Rojo would be sidelined for a number of weeks after dislocating his shoulder in training.
The Argentina left-back suffered the same problem last November in the 1-0 defeat at Manchester City and had only just returned to training following another injury.
“He was recovered of his [previous] injury so he trained with us on Wednesday after we gave all the players two days off,” Van Gaal said.
“He started fresh with us but he fell down and it was a bad fall and he dislocated his shoulder so he is out for more weeks.”
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Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”
