{"id":1138440,"date":"2026-08-08T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1138440\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:37:30","slug":"mason-mount-suffers-injury-scare-as-manchester-united-impress-in-psg-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1138440\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Mount suffers injury scare as Manchester United impress in PSG draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 eRQajs\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/michael-carrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Carrick<\/a> admitted he had to be \u201ccareful\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mason-mount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Mount<\/a> after the England midfielder handed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> an injury scare in their friendly draw with Paris St Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Mount has had a torrid time with injuries since signing from Chelsea in a \u00a355m deal three years ago, starting only 25 Premier League games for United in that time.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has been successfully deployed by Carrick in a central midfield role during pre-season, leading to speculation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/man-utd-altay-bayindir-loan-celta-vigo-b3029207.html\" title=\"Manchester United continue squad overhaul by offloading goalkeeper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United may not make another expected signing in that department.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Mount played only 18 minutes of Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw against the European champions in Gothenburg before being replaced by Scotland international Tyler Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Mount) got kicked. We just wanted to be careful and look after him,\u201d United head coach Carrick told reporters in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky with injuries so far, so we wanted to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Post-match video footage showed Mount walking freely on to the United bus without the aid of a protective boot or knee support.<\/p>\n<p>United were stunned within two minutes at the Ullevi Stadium when Liverpool target Ibrahim Mbaye punished slack marking to put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/psg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSG<\/a> ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786221450_328_2288815109...jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bryan Mbeumo scored the equaliser for Manchester United against PSG\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/>Bryan Mbeumo scored the equaliser for Manchester United against PSG (Getty)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bryan-mbeumo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> fired United level after 32 minutes following good work from Amad Diallo, the Cameroon forward\u2019s third goal in two games after his match-winning double against Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>United meet Leeds in a Dublin friendly on Wednesday before coming up against AC Milan and their former manager Ruben Amorim next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils open their Premier League campaign at Hull on 22 August.<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1138441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[1029,748,251751,47671,393,252848,99646,4884,44888,254524,2465,254415,12240,47681,17742,457,2249,58388,10031,309554,93,30364,103836,309556,812,309555,16,15,134941],"class_list":["post-1138440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-britain","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-fan-enthusiast","tag-friendly-match","tag-great-britain","tag-horizontal","tag-incidental-people","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united-f-c","tag-mason-mount","tag-match-sport","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-pre-season","tag-soccer","tag-solna","tag-sport","tag-stadium","tag-stockholm","tag-strawberry-arena","tag-sweden","tag-thank-you-phrase","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-waist-up"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117061816617884015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}