Match report & 4 talking points as Fernandes puts Foxes to the sword


Manchester United took 13th place after the comfortable 3-0 victory against Leicester City on Sunday evening at the King Power Stadium.

Rasmus Hojlund’s first goal in every competition in three months was followed when Alejandro Garnacho ended his own drought, which began even earlier before Bruno Fernandes ended an excellent all-round performance with a well-shaped United Drunken.

How the game unfolds

Despite her former domestic battles this season, United should still appear at the King Power Stadium in the King Power Stadium and dominate an opponent who stares the descent in the face.

An early rescue by Andre Onana to refuse the veteran Foxes skipper Jamie Vardy aside was what happened. It took a while before Ruben Amorim’s side started to create sensible opportunities, with Garnacho the first in red when he started Mads Hermansen from 20 meters.

There was a dangerous ball in the Leicester Box by Nussair Mazraoui, which was treated before Christian Eriksen hit the crossbar with a breathtaking exertion of the resulting corner. Hojlund’s opening goal was not far back.

The alarm carnival played on the shoulder of the high defense line and played in the right channel of Fernandes in space. Hojlund took it in his crotch, delivered Leicester’s space to do this, and then shot a clinical exertion into the far lower corner that went beyond Hermansen’s reach.

Leicester improved towards the end of the first half, but an attempt by Wilfred Ndidi was distracted and blocked the efforts of Patson Daka and Bilal El Khanous who went closest.

At the beginning of the second half, the hosts retained part of this pressure, whereby the chance for Daka led to a collision that United Defender Ayden Heaven left the field on a stretcher. However, the next important chance came when Garnacho put the ball on the net, just to identify off the page – a VAR check confirmed the decision to ban the goal, but it was at most marginal.

Garnacho hadn’t had the ball on the net long afterwards and it counted. Fernandes initially tried to record Mazraoui, but got a second bite of the cherry to throw him on the way from Garnacho, who had undertaken to sweep his finish in Hermansen. The celebration from the former strike was repeated and settled on the advertising.

A great chance for Leicester came when the watch ticked the last 15 minutes. Vardy exceeded Victor Lindelof on the left and squeaked after replacement facuno Buonanotte. But with the aim of the mercy of the Argentina, Matthijs de Ligt threw himself in front of the ball with a huge block.

Fernandes put the icing on the cake for United in the last moments. The goal was a product of Amorim’s system, with Diogo Dalot being present to take a diagonal pass on the right flank. He beat a somewhat unfortunate Stephy Mavididi with a few stepovers and fired a cut to his captain on the edge of the box for the first time.

Leicester urged himself to the end to avoid that the first team in top English flight history lost seven consecutive home games without points. But Onana corresponded to a strong Vardy effort in the stop time, and the foxes are indeed marked with this unwanted recording.

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Rasmus Hojlund

Rasmus Hojlund really needed a goal / Alex Livesey – Danshouse / Gettyimages

There was no emotions, but a knowing appearance of the calm relief of Rasmus Hojlund after bury the ball in the lower corner of the network to score his first goal since December 12th.

In his second season with United, even from Sir Jim Ratcliffe, this in the second season last week, when Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s co -owner was called, publicly examined the below -average players.

Hojlund gave the perfect answer to these comments a week when United Real Sociedad destroyed in Old Trafford and did everything as points on this point. Here the 22-year-old got the break he was waiting for and may have benefited from a non-brilliant defense from Leicester. But Hojlund has shown in the past that he is someone who thrives on self-confidence and momentum, as a six-game value of the value shows in the middle of the last season, which was only restricted by injuries.

If this was the goal he has to use for another run, United will reap the rewards.

Bruno Fernandes

Bruno Fernandes cannot be stopped at the moment / Alex Livesey – Danhouse / Gettyimages

Since United had to struggle this season, the increasingly popular soundbite for critics, Bruno Fernandes, was the “problem”. This could hardly be away from the truth, with the captain perhaps the only player who continued to appear consistently.

Fernandes recorded assists for the strikes Hojlund and Garnacho here before adding the third himself. In order to bring his latest contributions into the context, the Portuguese have achieved a direct hand in 16 goals in all competitions since the turn of the calendar year alone.

Ayden Heaven, Ruben Amorim

Ayden sky left the pitch on a stretcher / Carl Recine / Gettyimages

After an impressive replacement appearances and a complete debut in the Europa League on Thursday, 18-year-old defender Ayden Heaven was rewarded with his first start in Premier League.

Again, the adolescent blocked well in the final phases of the first half of Patson Daka. But after a collision with the same Leicester striker, the sky was on the lawn shortly after half-time and was treated for a long time on the field before it was warded off.

Said Ruben Amorim Sky Sport After the final pipe that it was too early to know exactly what the damage is, with the reviews in the coming days.

Manuel Ugarte, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Wout Faes

You seemed more ready to be ready to fight the victory / Alex Livesey – DANEHOUSE / GOIMAGES

Towards the end of the first half, there was a moment when Wilfred Ndidi threatened to run into the penalty area in the penalty area, where he would have hit a Leicester cross in the box for a simple compensation. Manuel Ugarte was the United player who was closest to Ndidi when he started to recognize the movement and compensate for the gap and to get to the ball in front of the Leicester player.

It was just a unique game passage, but it felt representative of something bigger in the way the team is now approaching things after it was guilty of many passive appearances this season.

When Garnacho scored the second goal of United by United, Leicester’s lack of defense intensity was strong in his absence.

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