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Main center-back Rio Ferdinand may not appear on the field this season due to a thigh injury. The 32-year-old captain of the English national team got injured during warm-up before the match against "Wolverhampton" on February 5. "The problem is not short-term - it would be great if Rio could help us at the end of the season," - optimistically said coach Sir Alex Ferguson. Due to the injury, John O'Shea dropped out of the lineup for five weeks, Rafael will not play for a couple of weeks, and Nemanja Vidic will also miss the match against "Bolton", leaving Manchester United with only four nominal defenders - Fabio, Chris Smalling, Wes Brown, and Patrice Evra.
