Several Manchester United players are set to feature at the World Cup though one star's participation is now in doubt due to injury08:37, 08 Jun 2026Updated 08:37, 08 Jun 2026Manchester United defender Noussair Mazraoui has been hit by an injury worry ahead of the World Cup getting underway. Mazraoui was withdrawn just 29 minutes into Morocco's friendly against Norway at the Sports Illustrated Stadium on Sunday evening.‌The extent of the problem remains unknown at this stage, but the full-back had gone down experiencing some discomfort before being replaced by Youssef Belammari.‌He appeared to suffer an arm or shoulder injury after a collision at a corner inside the opening 20 minutes. Morocco begin their Group C fixtures against Brazil at the MetLife Stadium on Saturday evening.‌Incoming United signing Ederson could be set for an unexpected role in that clash as he looks set to be called up by Brazil to replace the injured Wesley.He will join fellow Brazilian Cunha at Old Trafford and hopefully go up against Mazraoui this weekend. The latter recently revealed he has been discussing the upcoming Brazil vs Morocco match with United team-mates Casemiro and Matheus Cunha.Get the latest World Cup news straight to your inbox by _signing up to our Make Football Great Again newsletter now!‌Speaking to the United website, he said: "Yeah, it was a little bit different. I'm talking like I've done four World Cups, it was my first one!"I think it's different, of course, mid-season, it's different in every aspect, physically, mentally as well. End of the season, you have the whole season [that you have played before it], just half-season [like Qatar was] is different."But what I remember from that World Cup is we just went in there with a good fight. Everybody was free in their head. We knew we had a strong team.‌"We knew we could do something, but we never expected to be in the semi-final. So that was a big surprise for us, I think for the whole world, and we enjoyed every minute of that."When you have time, we talk about the club, everything. This subject as well, especially [with] Cunha, because he's probably going to play left or right winger, [if he's] on my [side], then [it's] 1v1, so it's going to be fun.Article continues belowFOLLOW OUR MAN UTD FB PAGE! Latest United news and more on our dedicated Facebook page"I think we've been doing really good on an international level as well as in Africa itself. So yeah, expectations are much higher than they were four years ago because we've reached that and because we've done pretty well the last four or five years."So yeah, the expectations are bigger and it's up to us to handle that kind of pressure and to show again that you can do the same thing that you did four years ago, and it's not just luck and it's going to be like a constant level. I think that's our biggest ambition for us."