Licha was once again one of the team’s high points. (REUTERS / Craig Brough)
Man Utd He scored his third straight win after beating Leicester City 1-0 for the fifth round of the Premier League. Lisandro Martinez was once again a starter and made a great performance, since he shares the central backcourt with Raffaello Varano they only received one goal against in the duel against Liverpool. What no longer seems to be new is seeing Cristiano Ronaldo start from the bench and enter only in a matter of minutes.
The first phase had, as the Premier League has accustomed us, a great pace. United were the ones who kept the lead throughout the 45 minutes and Leicester through their pressure tried to force a mistake to generate a scoring opportunity. However, it was a pretty close and hard-fought match in the middle of the pitch.
At 22 minutes, Jadon Sancho received a great pass from Marcus Rashford, dribbled Danny Ward and finished with the goal at his mercy. In this way he obtained the partial advantage for the team led by Erik Ten Hag.
3 minutes into the interval, Lisando Martínez committed a foul for which he was reprimanded. From that James Maddison free kick came an impressive save David De Gea which prevented the draw.
In the absence of 23 minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo entered and at that moment he had the opportunity to condemn the match, in fact, at 40 ‘on a cross from his compatriot Diogo Dalot Connect the ball with the scissors that bounce and graze the goalkeeper’s far post.
With this win, as well as being fifth in the tournament with 9 points and six points behind leaders Arsenal, the Red Devils begin to find some regularity in the game and results after a turbulent start to the season in which Ten Hag was the center. of several criticisms of his team’s performance.
Source: Clarin
