The crumb of comfort of Diogo Dalot's apparent hamstring injury on Saturday is he has more than two weeks to regain fitness for Manchester United's Premier League resumption against Nottingham Forest.
Such is Dalot's determination, he might have his sights set on Burnley in the League Cup on Wednesday week. The only one of United's 21 matches he has not started in this season was through suspension.
Had Portugal progressed to the quarter-finals of the World Cup then Dalot would have officially been out of the cup tie. Semi-finalists are guaranteed to play at least two more matches, with the third-place play-off on Saturday.
