Just like that, Manchester United are down to the bare bones in defence.
Despite spending about £230million on centre-backs and signing a new one in five of the last seven summer transfer windows, United now find themselves in a position of having only two available for Thursday's trip to Cyprus to face Nicosia and likely for Sunday's match at Everton.
Eric Bailly's loan move to Marseille left Erik ten Hag with four senior centre-backs but now two are sidelined. Captain Harry Maguire hasn't started since the 4-0 defeat at Brentford but picked up a knock during England's thrilling 3-3 draw with Germany in the international break. Raphael Varane had taken his place and has looked at his imperious best but was struck by injury once again in Sunday's shambolic derby defeat.
