United's injury curse struck again with a vengeance in the game at Peterborough leaving Kevin Blackwell scratching his head and wondering how much more his squad can take.

The enforced removal of Evans, Ward and Williamson at various stages of the opening period hugely disrupted the gameplan:

"There was a lot of effort but we didn't create enough chances and those three injuries before half-time did affect us.

"We started lively enough, Ched particularly, but the enforced changes stuffed us with regard to doing some of the things we had wanted to and some of our decision-making was lacking at times.

"I was disappointed with the goal because it was a set-play we have worked on stopping. Henri Camara had to get back to do the marking job that Wardy was meant to have done and couldn't because of his injury.

"But I can't keep blaming the players, there have been so many changes and at the moment this is a difficult scenario to manage in."

Blackwell now has to turn his attention to bringing in reinforcements for the visit of QPR on Saturday:

"Ched Evans has a suspected broken collar-bone and if it is confirmed will be out for the rest of the season. Wardy came over and said he couldn't run because of his hamstring and that took eight weeks last time, and Williamson has the same problem again.

"We are struggling with numbers again and it will be very hard now to bring good players in."