Vardy needs to score in his next two games to equal the all-time record of consecutive goals scored at the top level of English football, set by Jimmy Dunne back in 1931-32. Vardy unsettled the keeper afterwards, leading to an exchange of words, but it is all part of Vardy’s game.
Advertisement
The atmosphere had been electric in the build-up to kick-off and Vardy did not disappoint the expectant fans.
Restored to a role up front, the United captain provided little to threaten Leicester City’s defence. The manager was asked about the threat provided from set-pieces and he was quick to praise his Dutch counterpart. Ashley Young was bright going forward but floundered defensively as a wing-back and Louis van Gaal must start to solve their issues.
The Red Devils faced Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Wednesday night, which played out as a 0-0 draw, leaving United requiring a win in their final European group-stage contest to qualify for the knock-out stages. It was traditional United but the Reds just didn’t have anything to match it.
With that goal, the 28-year-old made it at least one goal scored in his last 11 successive league matches, prompting kind words from van Nistelrooy, who now labels Vardy as the number one.
“I’m obviously delighted but the main thing was the performance”, he told Sky Sports.
“We felt that we would be better in the second half and that that we would push on and look to win the game like we always do”, continued Carrick in his MUTV interview. It came from a corner to us, so we have to blame ourselves, we gave the goal away and that should not be possible.
“I’ve just been keeping my head down this week, not letting it sink in my head and just concentrate”, Vardy said.
Leicester’s pass completion was only 69%, but that would be no concern to manager Claudio Ranieri.
“Amazing and fantastic”, he said. “It was very hard because United are a very good team”. Racing in behind the defense and one-on-one with the goalkeeper, it was a position the pacey striker had found himself in plenty of times in his recent scoring spree – and the result wound up being the same.
Schweinsteiger lost his marker, Shinji Okazaki, at a corner in first-half injury time and headed in Daley Blind’s cross for his first goal for United after his summer move from Bayern Munich.
Advertisement
“I was sad to lose a goal at the end of the first half but it is okay”. “It is good for the table and important for us to work during training”. “If you see the game and how much space we had with the ball, we have to create more chances and danger and we didn’t do it so well”. “We organised ourselves defensively to contain Vardy so we have to be disappointed at the way Leicester scored”, the United manager said after witnessing what can only be described as a trademark Vardy strike.
