Manchester U 4 Leicester 1

Jose Mourinho

Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Lei­cester City 1, Old Traf­ford, Eng­lish Pre­mier Lea­gue, Septem­ber 24, 2016. Way­ne Roo­ney was dropped for the fir­st time since Box­ing Day 2015 for Man­chester United´s ga­me ag­ainst reign­ing cham­pi­ons Lei­cester City. Waz­za ev­entually came on for Mar­cus Rash­ford in the 83rd min­ute of the tie, but lacked time to make an impact.

Man­chester Uni­ted mo­ved up to sixth place in the Pre­mier Lea­gue ta­ble wi­th a re­as­sur­ing 4-1 ho­me vic­tory over Lei­cester, and re­cently ap­poin­ted man­ager Jose Mou­rinho had every reas­on to be con­tent fol­low­ing the mat­ch. Af­ter be­ing dropped from the start­ing lineup, Way­ne Roo­ney watched from the sub­stitutes´ bench as Uni­ted went in­to a 4-0 fir­st ha­lf lead thanks to goals from Chris Small­ing, Ju­an Ma­ta, Mar­cus Rash­ford, and Paul Po­gba. Eng­land U21 in­ter­na­tion­al De­marai Gray ma­naged to re­duce the de­fi­cit for The Foxes four­teen min­utes in­to the sec­ond ha­lf, but the hosts were nev­er threat­ened in this ga­me. Jose Mou­rinho: “Today Man­chester Uni­ted had in­tens­ity, move­ment and dy­nam­ism. To be back ho­me and be­at the reign­ing Pre­mier Lea­gue cham­pi­ons is good. Last sea­son we could­n’t be­at them and this sea­son we have beaten them twice al­ready.” Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Da­vid de Gea, Eric Bailly, Chris Small­ing, Da­ley Bli­nd, Va­lencia, An­der Her­rera, Ju­an Ma­ta, Jesse Lin­gard, Paul Po­gba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Mar­cus Rash­ford. Sub­stitutes: Mar­cos Rojo, Tim Fosu-Mensah, Ash­ley Young, Mi­chael Car­rick, Mar­ou­ane Fel­laini, Way­ne Roo­ney, Ser­gio Rom­ero. Lei­cester City Te­am: Ron Ro­bert Ziel­er, Dan­ny Simp­son, Chris­ti­an Fuchs, Ro­bert Huth, Wes Mor­gan, Dan­iel Am­artey, Marc Al­brighton, Dan­ny Drink­wa­ter, Riy­ad Mahrez, Is­lam Sli­mani, Jam­ie Vardy. Sub­stitutes: Lu­is Her­nandez, Jef­frey Sch­lupp, Andy King, De­marai Gray, Shinji Okaza­ki, Le­onardo Ulloa, Ben Hamer.

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