Phil Jones, Eric Bailly and Marouane Fellaini will miss Manchester United's trip to Arsenal due to injury.

Defenders Jones (thigh) and Bailly have each sat out the last four games, while Fellaini was absent for Tuesday's 4-2 win at Watford.

United boss Jose Mourinho said at his press conference to preview the clash with the Gunners that none of the trio would be involved, and that Fellaini's fellow midfielder Nemanja Matic was a doubt.

Mourinho said of the influential Matic, who came off in the second half at Vicarage Road because of what the manager has described as a muscular issue: "I hope he can (be involved), but I cannot guarantee.

"He is selected to go. Let's see the feeling before the match, let's see the warm-up. I hope he can. I want him to, he wants to, but I cannot guarantee."

Jones has been out of action since limping off in the first half of England's match against Germany on November 10.

And Mourinho subsequently hit out at England's treatment of the player, specifically that Jones had been given six painkilling injections in order to feature in a friendly.

On Thursday, England boss Gareth Southgate spoke about Jones, saying he had "massive empathy" for Mourinho, while also stressing he had "every trust in our medical team that they make the right calls".

Southgate added: "We have got ongoing dialogue over this situation."

But when Mourinho was asked at the press conference on Friday if the England camp had explained more to him about the matter, he simply said "no", and gave the same response when then asked if they had told him anything at all.

United are second in the table ahead of the showdown between Mourinho and his old foe Arsene Wenger.

They sit four points better off than fourth-placed Arsenal and are eight behind leaders Manchester City.

Mourinho has emphasised he is focusing just on Saturday's match rather than the title race as a whole - and likened the one-game-at-a-time approach to how tennis great Bjorn Borg was coached.

Asked if he saw the Arsenal match as 'must-win', Mourinho said: "I play a game at a time and I think that's the way to do it.

"Yesterday I was watching an interesting movie, Bjorn Borg versus John McEnroe, and Borg's coach was telling him that all the time - 'One point at a time, think just about one point'.

"And I tell my players, 'Think just about the game'.

"It doesn't matter what comes after, what happened before. It is just this game. So now it is Arsenal.

"We don't think how many points we are in front of them, how many we are behind the leaders. It is just Arsenal."

It was then suggested to him that he was like McEnroe and Wenger like Borg, to which Mourinho replied with a smile: "No. I don't play tennis. I love tennis, but I don't play tennis."