Key quotes from Marc Skinner pre-match press conference | Man Utd Women v Burnley | 16 Jan 2026

“She’ll be back before the end of the season. So, it’s probably about six to 10 weeks, depending on how it was from the point of it. So, you’re probably looking around six to eight weeks [from now], something like that. So yeah, she’ll be back before the end of the season and ready to go. We’ll be looking forward to welcoming her back. [Will she miss the European games?] Potentially, there’s a potential she could be back going into those windows. But it’s one of those, it moves every day, it gets better every day. So, we will obviously wait and see that, but it’s what’s best for Ella as well, as she’s coming back from it. We can’t rush her back, but I will say that she’ll be ready for football before the end of the season, for sure.”

THE FA CUP IS ROMANTIC

“We’ve got to three finals in three years in the FA Cup. So, there’s a romantic kind of feeling about this cup, but, I can’t stress enough, we can’t take it lightly. Burnley might be a couple of divisions below, but they’re an aggressive team that wants to be in the WSL. I think their ownership have been very clear on that. So, we have to take this game seriously. I want to see us build as well. There were parts of the Arsenal game – [in the] context, we took a draw out of it – but there are parts I want to see us improve. I want to see us improve with the ball. I think we can be more aggressive with the ball. Defensively, I thought were excellent, so I want to keep that. But I want to get us back into rhythm, I want to use these games to help us get back into rhythm and really hit it hard.”