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Twice at the helm, Solskjaer’s teachers and students were unable to maintain their results and let Leicester draw 2-2 in the 15th round of the Premier League on December 26.
Goals: Baarnes 31 ‘, Tuanzebe (own goal) 85’ – Rashford 23 ‘, Fernandes 79’
Rashford opened the scoring with a good set. Image: PENNSYLVANIA.
Loi led, in both passes, escaping from Man Utd’s hands in less than 10 minutes. They opened the scoring 23 minutes later and eight minutes later they were knocked down. In the 79th minute, Bruno Fernandes raised the score to 2-1 and appeared to extend the Premier League’s away winning streak this season to seven. However, it took Leicester City exactly six minutes to fix the 2-2 result.
Eric Bailly, whose second major Premier League game since the start of the season, remained responsible for both goals. At first, he got up too slowly, giving Harvey Barnes plenty of time to adjust the ball, before kicking the ball into the near corner. In the second goal, Jamie Vardy tricked him with a step back to catch the center from the right wing. As well as a series of mistakes Bailly made in the 1-6 loss to Tottenham, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer clearly makes sense when the Ivory Coast midfielder is regularly in reserve.
Bailly is just one of Man Utd’s weak links on the night of December 26. Midfielder Victor Lindelof was dragged to the right side, replaced by an injured Aaron Wan-Bissaka, and was repeatedly exploited by Leicester’s speed weakness as he passed backwards. Daniel James, after an energetic game against Leeds, revealed a technical weakness. And Luke Shaw, even as Solskjaer stepped down from his defensive duties in the second half of the second half, he still couldn’t match Alex Telles in cross-ball ability. If Lindelof is not in pain, it may be Shaw who has replaced Telles to offer solutions to stretch the home defense horizontally.
Cavani (left) replaced Martial, and he only needed 4 minutes to help Fernandes score. Image: Reuters.
Although he lost two points, the fact that Man Utd only kicked the Leicester level. They held the ball less (46%), finished less (9 versus 10), but shot better on goal (4 versus 2). Those are the statistics few people think of before this year’s Boxing Day opener, when the “Red Devils” are the team with the highest win rate on this day in the Premier League era, up 81%. . They are also Leicester’s star accountant when they won 19 games, scoring 60 goals in 28 games. No club in the land of mist makes “The Fox” miserable like the owner of Old Trafford.
Boxing Day is a joy for Man Utd but a nightmare for Leicester. Since returning to the Premier League in 2014, “Fox” has won just one and lost as many as five this time. All these statistics are shown in full in the first half of the first semester. Man Utd, in better shape and backed by historic voices, produced a ten-minute shot in the second minute. Rashford hit his head in the box without being tied, after Fernandes was suspended, but the ball went over the crossbar.
Although De Gea and Maguire created a heartbreaking situation in the 5m50 zone, Man Utd still opened the scoring thanks to the allure of individual goals. Starting from a midway cut from Daniel James, Fernandes leans in to touch the ball. He couldn’t hold the ball, but the Portuguese midfielder failed Leicester’s defense. The ball fell down, creating an opportunity to face Rashford. In the penalty area, No. 10 “Red Devils” put on a cold heart to open the scoring.
Barnes shot outstretched with his left cheek on the outside of his left foot, bringing the ball into De Gea’s goal. Image: CFL.
In last season’s final round, Man Utd defeated Leicester himself at King Power to win tickets to the Champions League, but that was when the home team did not have James Maddison and Barnes, the two richest mutants in midfield. . In this game, Maddison had the most key passes (passes give a chance to finish) the game and Barnes drew 1-1. Not to mention that Leicester’s two central midfielders played very well. Wilfred Ndidi is the highest tackler (seven times), while Youri Tielemans is the most successful (six), making him the perfect bridge between the downline and attack. It was this duo that blocked Fred and Scott McTominay, the reason for the 6-2 win over Leeds.
With the same 4-2-3-1 structure off the ball, both Man Utd and Leicester don’t give the opponent much space. While Leicester maintains certainty with the diligence of the midfielder pair, the visitors still rely on the talents of the household name: Fernandes. After helping Rashford to score, the Portuguese midfielder raised the score with more than 10 minutes to go. He moved diagonally into the middle of the road, caught Edinson Cavani’s slit, and then fired diagonally. The goal showed Solskjaer’s substitution, as the shot (Axel Tuanzebe) and the assistant (Cavani) came in from the bench.
Brendan Rodgers is also not inferior to his colleagues. Immediately after being led for the second time, he brought in Ayoze Pérez by Marc Albrighton. Like Cavani in four minutes, from the moment he walked in, Perez reached out from the right for Vardy to close out. The ball hit Tuanzebe’s foot, changed direction, and then slowly rolled into the far corner. If he was luckier, Leicester had all three points, but Perez’s passive touch in the third minute of injury time did not enter the net.
Tied 2-2, Man Utd stomped in third place, one point behind Leicester. In the next round, on December 29, “Red Devils” came home to host the Wolves, and Leicester were guests of Crystal Palace the day before.
Team
Leicester: Schmeichel; Justin, Fofana, Evans, Castagne; Ndidi, Tielemans; Albrighton (Pérez 81 ‘), Maddison, Barnes; Vardy.
Man Utd: De Gea, Lindelof (Tuanzebe 66 ‘), Bailly, Maguire, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; Fernandes; Rashford, Martial (Cavani 75 ‘), James (Pogba 54’).
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