Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing retrospective three-match ban for elbowing Tyrone Mings

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing retrospective three-match ban for elbowing Tyrone Mings

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is confronting a three-coordinate boycott which will see him miss Manchester ­United's huge FA Glass 6th round conflict with Chelsea next ­Monday night.

The questionable Swede can expect a FA rap subsequent to ­appearing to coordinate a requital elbow into the substance of Bournemouth ­defender Tyrone Mings in a feisty 1-1 draw at Old Trafford yesterday.

Ibra additionally observed his second-half punishment spared by Artur Boruc as United missed the opportunity to end their 138-day remain in 6th place.

Presently director Jose Mourinho is preparing himself to be without his alluring driving scorer for an imperative spell which likewise takes in Head Association recreations against West Brom and Middlesbrough.

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing retrospective three-match ban for elbowing Tyrone Mings

Mings could likewise gather a three-coordinate boycott on the off chance that he is discovered blameworthy of stamping on Ibrahimovic, 35, in a prior episode.


Arbitrator Kevin Companion missed both flashpoints and after that got in an obfuscate over the sending-off of Bournemouth captain ­Andrew Surman.

Mings stated: "He (Ibra) is a physical player. I realized what kind of fight I would have playing against him. That is the thing that we had.

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing retrospective three-match ban for elbowing Tyrone Mings

"There might have been an elbow when the ball came in. I didn't see it yet I felt it! I had an inclination he may desire me for the entire amusement. He's a physical person and it was a decent fight throughout the day."

Ibrahimovic, named as United’s player of the month before the game, protested his innocence. He said: “What happens on the field stays on the field. I’m not someone who attacks someone off the field.

You can see the pictures. I bounce up and high and he hops into my elbow."

Mings likewise attempted to play down his stamp on ­Ibrahimovic, which was a piece of a running fight which had started when the Assembled star tossed his future marker to the ground prior in the amusement – another occurrence missed by the authorities.

Asked whether the stamp had been ponder he demanded: "Actually no, not in the slightest degree. I could never do that. It is not in my diversion.

"Hard and reasonable is the means by which I get a kick out of the chance to handle however off-the-ball things like that is not my diversion."

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing retrospective three-match ban for elbowing Tyrone Mings

The FA may think ­differently. Mourinho appeared to disapprove of the Mings stamp and was spotted having words with the player as they both advanced down the passage toward the begin of the second half.

The Portuguese however was in no disposition to extend about his activities.

He stated: "I don't ­comment. I remark on the football, I remark on the amusement, I remark on the important choices of the diversion. Furthermore, I think on the important choices in the amusement Kevin Companion was great.