Manchester United defender Chris Smalling admits he's been playing with an injury this season.

The centre back made his return from injury in the win against Fulham in the league and explained how he has been playing through injury with a broken toe.

He told MUTV: “I'm fully healed from the broken toe now. It was good to be available again on Saturday and get that game under my belt. It's just about managing my next game and getting back up to match fitness. Hopefully, I'll be available for all the games until the end of the season.

“Through the Fulham and Arsenal [home] games, I had injections and then I had more injections for the Liverpool game [at Anfield] but it made the injury worse. So then it was a case of getting it right and getting back as soon as I can but, first and foremost, making sure it was right.

"When the injury got worse, I needed to recover. It was unfortunate I couldn't get involved [when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took caretaker charge] but it was good to see the team flourishing and nice to get involved as soon as I got back to fitness, to be able to play a game and get involved as quickly as possible.“