Manchester United celebrated their third win in a row at Leicester City on Thursday evening. Against harmless Foxes, ex-Dortmund Sancho scored the winner
At the King Power Stadium, the visitors, unchanged from Erik ten Hag’s 1-0 win at Southampton, had the first highlight of the game: Eriksen finished from just inside the penalty area, but missed the short corner (11th). After that, however, Foxes coach Brendan Rodgers, who had changed his eleven in three positions, saw his team come into the game better.
Sancho stings again
Starting with Ndidi, Thomas and Maddison for Amartey, Castagne and Praet after the 2-1 defeat at Chelsea, the home side slowly built up their share of the game but remained harmless apart from a fine flick from Barnes that just missed its target (37th). The visitors, however, took the lead only three minutes later through Sancho (23rd) after a pass from Rashford. Nothing more happened in an offensively thin first half from both sides, it went into the dressing rooms of the King Power Stadium with 1-0 for the in-form Manchester United.
The picture remained the same in the second half: Leicester tried hard, but lacked the decisive power. Once again, it was a long-range shot that was the hosts’ best chance for the time being: Maddison tried a free-kick, De Gea made a good save (51.).
Red Devils manage lacklustrely
In the following match, an open game developed, in which the hosts increased the risk and the Red Devils countered accordingly. In terms of scoring chances, however, both approaches remained unsuccessful for a long time. It was only in the final minutes that the visitors came back into the game and had a chance to decide the game when Evans blocked a cross from substitute Cristiano Ronaldo to Eriksen at the last second (82nd). A half-goal of his own from Foxes substitute Iheanachos remained the last real highlight (90th), before Justin slotted the final finish of the night on the top shelf (90.+3).
Leicester lose their fourth game in a row, remain winless and want to change that as soon as possible. The Foxes have their next opportunity on Sunday afternoon (3pm) at Brighton. Manchester United face league leaders Arsenal a little later on Sunday and seem to have got back on track at just the right time.
