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Red Devils Overcome City On Filbert Way

Three goals without reply did the damage for the Foxes on Sunday evening, as Manchester United claimed a 3-0 success at King Power Stadium.

2025-03-16T21:00+00:00

by Sam Jones

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16 Mar, 2025

from King Power Stadium

Red Devils Overcome City On Filbert Way

Three goals without reply did the damage for the Foxes on Sunday evening, as Manchester United claimed a 3-0 success at King Power Stadium.

Sam Jones

2025-03-16T21:00+00:00

Red Devils Overcome City On Filbert Way

Three goals without reply did the damage for the Foxes on Sunday evening, as Manchester United claimed a 3-0 success at King Power Stadium.

Sam Jones

2025-03-16T21:00+00:00

Red Devils Overcome City On Filbert Way

Three goals without reply did the damage for the Foxes on Sunday evening, as Manchester United claimed a 3-0 success at King Power Stadium.

Sam Jones

2025-03-16T21:00+00:00

Red Devils Overcome City On Filbert Way

Three goals without reply did the damage for the Foxes on Sunday evening, as Manchester United claimed a 3-0 success at King Power Stadium.

Sam Jones

2025-03-16T21:00+00:00

Rasmus Højlund opened the scoring prior to Alejandro Garnacho and then Bruno Fernandes ensuring that the points would be heading back to Manchester, leaving us 19th in the Premier League, nine points adrift of safety with nine games remaining.

The international break now approaches, with Leicester due at Etihad Stadium for a battle with Manchester City on Wednesday 2 April (7:45pm GMT kick-off) - our next league assignment.

Early promise

Following some encouraging signs at Chelsea last weekend, Ruud van Nistelrooy opted to field the same XI that fell to a 1-0 defeat in the capital.

Jamie Vardy forced a near-post save out of Andre Onana in the opening minutes after a fortuitous bounce allowed Wilfred Ndidi to play City’s No.9 into a promising position. Although the game’s first shot on target stung the palms of the Cameroonian, it was a stop he would have expected to make.

The turning point

Warning signs were there for Leicester when Christian Eriksen curled an in-swinging effort onto the woodwork five minutes earlier – the closest either side had come to breaking the deadlock. Højlund made no mistake just before the half-hour mark with a precise low strike into the far corner, latching onto Fernandes’ ball forward to notch his first goal in 14 Premier League matches.

An uphill battle from there to claw a way back into the contest, our best opening of the half came at the very end; Vardy feeding Patson Daka, whose shot befell the same fate as Bilal El Khannouss’ rebound moments later, both blocked by Ayden Heaven. The Man Utd youngster was there again just after the restart, preventing Daka getting on the end of Vardy’s cross before having to leave the field on a stretcher.

Paying the price

City may have been saved by the offside flag on one occasion; Garnacho thinking he’d doubled the advantage when the winger fired past Hermansen, moments after the Dane had got down to Eriksen’s drive from range, but that let off was brief.

There was to be another moment of celebration for the Argentine, who found a way through again with just over 20 minutes to play, ending City hopes of a second-half comeback. A late third from Fernandes added salt to the wounds with the United captain’s emphatic finish wrapping up what turned into a comfortable night for Ruben Amorim’s men.

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