Manchester United moved to the 13th at the Premier League table after the comfortable 3-0 Sunday night victory on the Leicester City Championship at King Power Stadium.
Rasmus Hojlund’s first goal in any three -month competition was followed by Alejandro Garnacho ended with his own drought, which began even earlier, before Bruno Fernandes headed an excellent comprehensive performance with a third of United.
As the game was deployed
Even with its previous domestic struggles this season, the United was still expected to be presented at the King Power Stadium and dominated an opponent who looked at the relegation to the face.
Andre Onana’s first savings to deny the pattern of veteran Foxes Jamie Vardy apart, that was what happened. It took a while next to Ruben Amorim to start creating significant possibilities, with Garnacho the first in red to close -when he hit Mads Hermansen from 20 meters.
There was a dangerous ball in the Newsair Mazraoui Leicester box, before Christian Eriksen ended up hitting the crossbar with impressive effort from the resulting corner. Hojlund’s opening goal was not behind.
Alert Dane played on the shoulder of the high defensive line, played in space on the right channel of Fernandes. Hojlund grabbed him at his disposal, allowed Leicester’s space to do so, and then fired a clinical effort at the lower end, beyond the reach of Hermansen.
Leicester It improved towards the end of the first half, but a Wilfred Ndidi attempt was diverted, and blocked the efforts of Patson Daka and Bilal The Khanouss were the closest.
The hosts kept a bit of this pressure in the second half, with a possibility of Daka, which resulted in a collision he saw United Ombudsman Ayden Heaven leaves the field on a stretcher. But the next significant opportunity came when Garnacho put the ball on the net, only to be marked offside: A VAR control confirmed the decision to disable the goal, but it was a maximum of marginal.
Garnacho again had the ball on the net not too later and that one counted. Fernandes initially tried to play Mazraoui, but got a second bite of the cherry to hit -on the road to Garnacho, which forced to devastate his Baix Hermansen finish. The celebration of the previous strike was repeated, putting in the advertising routes.
A great opportunity for Leicester came when the clock scored at the final 15 minutes, Vardy Outfoxing Victor Lindelof on the left, and was located for the Facuno Buonanotte substitute. But, with the aim of Argentine’s mercy, Ligt’s Matthijs launched in front of the ball with a huge block.
Fernandes put the icing on the cake for the United States during closing. The goal was a product of the Amorim system, with Diogo Dalot in its place to take a diagonal pass on the right flank. He won Stephy Mavididi a little unpleasant with a couple of step and shot a cut on his captain on the edge of the box for the first moment.
Leicester pushed a right of consolation to the end to avoid becoming the first team in the history of English flight to lose seven successive games at home without scoring. But Onana was equal to a powerful Vardy effort in the stoppage and the foxes are tambling this unwanted record.
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There was no excitement, but a quiet look of Rasmus Hojlund after he buried the ball in the lower corner of the net to score his first goal since December 12.
He has been under a huge scrutiny in his second season with United, even appointed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe last week when the co -owner publicly discussed low -performance players.
Hojlund gave the perfect answer to the comments of the half week when United demolished the Real Sociedad to Old Trafford, do -everything but score in that. Here, the 22 -year -old achieved the rest he expected, maybe he benefited from some non -brilliant Leicester defenses. But Hojlund has shown in the past that he is someone who thrives in confidence and impulse, as evidenced by a six -game streak in the middle of last season that was only reduced by injuries.
If this was the goal you need to start -in another race like that, United will get the rewards.
With the United that fights this season, the increasingly popular Soundbite for critics has been tagging Bruno Fernandes The “problem”. This could hardly be farther from the truth, with the captain perhaps the only player who has continued to constantly perform everywhere.
Fernandes collected assists for the strikes of Hojlund and Garnacho here, before adding the third. To put in context their recent contributions, the Portuguese have had a direct hand in 16 goals in all competitions since the end of the calendar year.
After an impressive recent substitute appearance and a complete debut in the United States in Europe League on Thursday, the 18 -year -old Ombudsman Ayden Heaven was rewarded with his first start of the Premier League.
Once again, the young man did well, especially blocking Patson Daka in the closing stages of the first half. But the sky was affected on the grass after a collision with Leicester himself forward shortly after half the time, and was given a long treatment on the pitch before being extracted.
Said Ruben Amorim Sky Sports After the final whistle, it was too early to know exactly what the damage is, with the evaluations that will be made in the coming days.
There was a moment towards the end of the first half when Wilfred Ndidi threatened to run without scoring in the box, where he would have met a Leicester cross in the box for a simple equipper. Manuel Ugarte was the closest united player to Ndidi when he began to move forward, to see the movement and to sprint to make the gap and reach the ball before the Leicester player did it.
It was just a unique passage of play, but it was representative of something bigger in the way the team now approaches things after being guilty of too many passive performances this season.
On the contrary, when Garnacho scored United’s second goal, Leicester’s lack of defensive intensity was strong in his absence.
