And Ranieri’s side have now equalled the three Premier League defeats they suffered in the entirety of their title winning season.
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The latter left all inside Old Trafford open-mouthed in the 59th minute, taking aim from distance and beating De Gea with a stunning strike.
Manchester United thrashed defending Premier League champions Leicester City 4-1 to vindicate manager Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney while Manchester City maintained their flawless start with a 3-1 win at Swansea on Saturday. It’s not easy to win against them, and even more hard to win in such a comfortable way.
And as the goals rained in, it was tempting to wonder what must have been going through Rooney’s mind in the dug-out.
Rooney bore the brunt of the criticism following his laboured displays and Mourinho made a decision to put his 30-year-old captain on the bench in the biggest call of his United reign to date.
The United goal blitz started once again two minutes later and it was Mata this time who played the assist for Rashford who scored comfortably in the 39th minute.
Manchester United will next to look get their Europa League campaign back on track when they host Zorya Luhansk at Old Trafford next Thursday.
“Sometimes when I read you (in the media), I feel I know nothing about football”, Mourinho said. “Hopefully it won’t be the last one”.
“I could have been much more defensive in my words but I chose to go in another way and I don’t regret that because this is the way we have to think”. “I always say one thing – it’s at the end (of the season) when we will see”. “I think it was down to the fact that we started very well and didn’t stop until the game was closed”.
“[Today] we were much more aggressive and pressed higher”.
– Manchester United scored four first half goals for the first time in the Premier League since Dec 2012 (4-3 versus Reading at half-time).
“It’s unbelievable what happened”.
“I am very happy for the result and the goal”. “We lost our shape and our concentration, and that is not like us”.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, meanwhile, has already been a handful in the air for teams this season and has scored two headers for United since arriving in the summer.
“I think the team played very well, you score four goals, and the striker doesn’t score a goal and I think the striker plays phenomenal”.
“Our intention is obviously to start really well and today we had intensity, we had movement”.
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“We have to carry on doing what we did today”.
