Athletic Club dealt triple injury hammer blow for Manchester United Europa League trip

Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams will miss the Europa League semi-final, second leg at Old Trafford.

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Athletic Bilbao have suffered a triple injury blow ahead of the second leg of their Europa League semi-final against Manchester United with Nico and Inaki Williams, plus top scorer Oihan Sancet all ruled out.

The trio were missing from the 24-man travelling squad named by Ernesto Valverde on Wednesday morning, with Athletic announcing that Inaki Williams – who has 11 goals and nine assists this season – has suffered a hamstring injury.

His younger brother Nico, who also has netted 11 goals, has been dealing with a groin problem.

Sancet, who leads the charts with 17 goals, missed last week’s first leg with a hamstring problem and has been unable to recover in time for the reverse fixture.

United were already strong favourites to advance to the final after a brace from Bruno Fernandes and a Casemiro goal gave them a 3-0 win in Bilbao in last week’s first leg.

Bilbao travelled to Manchester on Wednesday morning ahead of a training session at Old Trafford.

Athletic Club travelling squad in full

Unai Simón, Agirrezabala, Santos, Gorosabel, Paredes, Yeray, Vesga, Berenguer, A. Djaló, Guruzeta, Núñez, I. Lekue, Ruiz de Galarreta, Yuri, De Marcos, Unai G., Maroan, Jauregizar, Prados, Canales, Adama, Olabarrieta, Rego and Varela

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