Casemiro also on target twice for the home side
Manchester United interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy celebrates a goal from Bruno Fernandes against Leicester City. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Imagesin cup competition again, so ending on the right end of a 5-2 goal fest as the interim manager can warm in his dotage.’s tenure, and is an apt gift to Ruben Amorim should he be in place for Chelsea’s visit on Sunday.
But then Casemiro’s thunderbolt had Van Nistelrooy “oohing” and raising his arms. United’s build-up was neat, Leicester’s lack of pressure on them a dereliction. Through an inside left-channel, Lisandro Martínez found Alejandro Garnacho, who skipped infield and tapped to Bruno Fernandes. United, basically since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013, are experts at shooting themselves in the proverbial. This did not change under their second Dutch manager of the season: Altay Bayindir, the third of United’s fresh personnel, flapped at a cross, the ball went to Bilal El Khannouss, and he scored via pinball off the left post.
Despite the caretaker fielding a second No 6 in Manuel Ugarte, the gaps in the United midfield that are an unwanted Ten Hag legacy remained and Cooper’s unit ran through these in several concerning attacks. And then came United’s fifth. A Fernandes-Rashford combo caused a Caleb Okoli brain-freeze that resulted in Fernandes being clean through. A dummy took Ward to ground and the 30-year-old was never going to miss from inches away.
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