There is no NGolo KanteThe Frenchman last season became the first player in Europes top five leagues to win more than 100 tackles. Then, Pogba was part of a side that won just one of their first six league games. In his time at the Gunners, he helped lead the side to their first league and FA Cup double in 30 years in the 1997/98 season. Carrick will sit back and provide the start of the attack – something Paul Scholes advocated – while Pogba now can be the fuse that starts the fireworks. Victory could spark them into life, defeat and a miserable winter looms large. It was not until this point last season they lost their first top-tier game, an uncharacteristic 5-2 collapse to Arsenal. Last season his performances saw him named in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year. The £120,000-a-week Reds striker rocked up to Sainsbury’s to complete a food run in his white, £235,000 Rolls Royce in Hale Village, Cheshire on Wednesday evening. The German stopper was injured in pre-season training and Simon Mignolet has started each league match as No1. Pogba will be licking his lips at the thought of unlocking that midfield no longer patrolled by Kante.