During the pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon, the manager highlighted the Frenchman’s importance to the squad and revealed they had shared a conversation that morning about the player’s fitness, which had been aided by two international appearances in the break.
However, when our line-up was announced on Saturday night, Pogba was surprisingly missing from the 18-man squad and Ole then told us that Paul had unfortunately aggravated an ankle injury, which he had picked up in France’s midweek UEFA Nations League match win over Sweden.
“Paul got a knock in the last [France] game and he started feeling it yesterday after the session,”
the manager explained to club reporter Stewart Gardner ahead of kick-off against West Brom.