This was their second competitive win over Leicester this season, having already beaten them to win the Community Shield.
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Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba scored in a rampant five-minute spell just before halftime at Old Trafford on Saturday after United had taken the lead through Chris Smalling, the team’s captain in place of the demoted Rooney. I think we needed something like this.
Asked if Rooney was happy in the dressing room after the game, Moruinho added: “Of course, his team won, his United won”.
“We want to carry on like this”, Pogba said.
“When our main striker is Zlatan, we need fast people surrounding him, ‘ said Mourinho, who had lost his two previous Premier League games”. Following three straight defeats, the “Einsteins” may have been ready to pen Mourinho’s impending downfall, but you are only ever as good as your last result.
Mata scored the only United goal that did not come from a corner against Leicester as he finished off a well-worked move with a fine strike.
“We were always working on that”, Mata told MUTV. But there is one thing I know: The rules of the game.
“They’re not 100 per cent as I always think this hard moment where you really feel that you have to win the match I prefer to go with players who are 100 per cent ready by the physical point of view and mental point of view”.
It wouldn’t be fair to put United’s rampant performance exclusively down to Rooney’s exclusion, as Leicester were a shadow of the side that shocked the world last season.
The Red Devils next face Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk in the Europa League at Old Trafford on 29 September.
Leicester are back in action on Tuesday as Porto arrive for the club’s first-ever Champions League home match. This is Claudio Ranieri’s side’s third consecutive loss in EPL.
Andy King and Demarai Gray came on, with the latter shining off the bench and beating David de Gea with an exquisite strike.
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After back-to-back Premier League defeats by Manchester City and Watford, United were under pressure from their fans and returned to winning ways with Smalling beginning the rout of the champions with a first half header. We prepare for the games in the same way, with the same professionalism.
