Leicester City 0 – 1 Man Utd
(Baonghean.vn) - After the unfortunate draw against Burnley in the middle of the week, coach Solskjaer and his team traveled to Leicester City's King Power Stadium in round 25 of the English Premier League.
This is a match that is predicted to be extremely difficult for the "Red Devils" whenThe "Foxes" are showing quite stable performance, their goal of a European Cup spot in the new season is increasingly distant, but that does not mean that the King Power team will easily let the "Red Devils" pass them.
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Man United scored the only goal in the 9th minute of the match. Photo: bongdaplus.vn |
With MUTheir immediate goal is top 4 when the teams above them, Tottenham and Chelsea, both won, and also in this round, Man City and Arsenal will face each other, which will be a favorable factor for MU to shorten the gap.
Back to the match, MU is showing a technical style of play and their attacks are quite smooth. As usual, Paul Pogba is still MU's trump card when making most of the beautiful attacking passes and creating many opportunities for the players above to score.
And right in the 9th minute of the match, taking advantage of a failed pass from Leicester City players, Paul Pogba accurately crossed the ball for Rashford to escape and defeat Schmeilchel in a one-on-one situation, opening the score for MU.
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Rashford shines to bring 3 points for MU against LeicesterCity. Photo: Getty |
In the following minutes, Leicester City players pushed up their formation to find an equalizer and they created many opportunities with continuous attacks from Maddison, Vardy, Barnes... but could not defeat goalkeeper De Gea.
At the end of the first half, the away team MU temporarily led Leicester with a score of 1-0 thanks to Rashford's only goal in the 9th minute.
Entering the second half, the match was still balanced and tense, but the opportunity belonged to the MU players when in the 59th minute, a sharp counter-attack in the middle of MU ended with Luke Shaw escaping down the left wing before passing the ball smoothly for Rashford to finish from the second line but the ball went just wide of the post.
Leicester players also responded with quick counter-attacks with the sharpness of Vardy and Gray. But in an excellent day, Goalkeeper De Gea discouraged the strikers of Leicester players.
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Rashford's only goal in the 9th minute helped Man Utd get an important victory in their away match at Leicester City. Photo: VTV |
In the 90th minute, a quick counter-attack was accurately launched by MU players when Young passed the ball conveniently to Martial on the left wing, but MU's number 9 could not defeat goalkeeper Schmeichel in a face-to-face situation.
Minute 90 + 5: The match ended with MU winning all 3 points at Leicester's King Power Stadium with a 1-0 victory thanks to Rashford's only goal in the 9th minute.
With a hard-fought victory over Leicester City, coach Solskjaer's team has temporarily risen to 5th place from Arsenal with 48 points after 25 matches. And it is also MU's 10th unbeaten match under coach Solskjaer.
Score:
MU: Rashford (9th minute)
Line-up:
Leicester:Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Evans, Maguire, Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Gray, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.
Reserve:Morgan, Iheanacho, Ward, Okazaki, Fuchs, Ghezzal, Choudhury.
MU:De Gea, Young, Bailly, Lindelof, Shaw, Ander Herrera, Matic, Lingard, Pogba, Sanchez, Rashford.
Reserve: Jones, Mata, Lukaku, Martial, Fred, Dalot, Romero.
Results of some previous matches:
Tottenham 1 - 0 Newcastle
Brighton 0 - 0 Watford
Burnley 1- 1 Southampton
Chelsea 5 - 0 Huddersfield
Crystal Palace 2 - 0 Fulham
Everton 1 - 3 Wolverhampton