Leicester 1 Man Utd 1
They play like commandos.
Bubbly with desire, Jamie Vardy is like an electric ferret, the spearhead in a counter-attacking team who wait to use their speed-machine, their destroyer, their wire-guided anti-tank missile.
As Leicester waited and we waited, ManGaal United trundled forward, using five or seven passes to travel fifty yards across the pitch. They try to pin you inside the penalty area and win a corner or three or four.
After 23 minutes United won a corner but Leicester scored from it.
Schmeichel caught the inswinger and threw it to left back Fuchs, who raced forward and played the ball behind the thin defence.
Ashley Young inexplicably slowed down and let the most dangerous striker in the league run into the box and slot past the advancing De Gea.
Vardy’s record-breaking 11th consecutive Premier League goal came from two passes. United must have felt like mugs.
But then they won another corner in 45 and Schweinsteiger headed in to make it 1-1 at half-time.
Nothing happened in the second half.
First half, I was watching Rooney and thinking, “This is the worst game I’ve ever seen him play.”
HE WAS SHOCKING.
Second half, the same.
Never in the last 12 years have I seen Rooney play as clumsily as this.
In 67, King Louis took him off. If he’d taken poor old Wayne off sooner, he might have won the game.
Man City are top tonight and Leicester are still above Man Utd.
And when Arsenal beat Norwich by two goals tomorrow they’ll be on 29 points, the same as City and the blue commandos.
SPURS v CHELSEA?
I fancy Spurs to win by one goal, despite playing on Thursday night, when Pochettino rested his first choice full backs.
Harry Kane gave Chelsea plenty to think about in this fixture last season.
PS : From Colin Bruce Shanner
Oh my goodness! United are unwatchable…
Sooooooo boring. I fell asleep watching. Stultifying, pedantic drivel under Van Gaal. Manure is an appropriate name for this outfit.
Taking football back eons, the antithesis of exciting, powerful, dynamic Klopperball.