Paul Pogba faces ban; "How will Man United face Man City?"

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher has looked at how Manchester United would battle their rivals Manchester City without the influential midfielder.

 
 Paul Pogba will miss Sunday's Manchester derby after Manchester United decided not to appeal his three-game ban for his red card at Arsenal

Pogba was dismissed in the 74th minute of Saturday's 3-1 victory for his challenge on Gunners defender Hector Bellerin.

Pogba netted two of United's three goals against the Emirates but he will now have to sit out Sunday's clash at Old Trafford as United look to cut City's eight-point gap at the top of the Premier League.

Mourinho said to the media on Monday: "Since he came back from injury, he has been phenomenal."

"Pogba makes a big, big difference. So when they went to Anfield, they couldn't connect the deep defence to the midfield and into attack. He connects that, he links it, with those runs forward and his composure on the ball.

"You think about Pogba, he would beat De Bruyne and Silva with the ball at his feet and break that line. Once you break that line you're onto the weakness, you're onto those two centre-backs with Lukaku and Martial.

"City is a big game to not have Pogba. The person who can break the line is gone, but Jose Mourinho will be looking at how he can do it differently," Gary Neville said.

"I'm disappointed he's not playing on Sunday because I would have loved to have seen how Jose would have used him, considering what he would have been up against in De Bruyne and Silva," Carragher said.