Full time: Manchester United 4-1 Leicester City

Peep peep! An excellent day for Manchester United, who end their disgraceful run of two consecutive league defeats with an emphatic win. The absence of Wayne Rooney made for a faster first-half performance, even if a half-time scoreline of 4-0 was a big lie. Paul Pogba had a fine game; Juan Mata and Ander Herrera were good too. Leicester look like a team whose collective unconscious has placed every last egg in the basket marked ‘Champions League’. Thanks for your company and abuse; bye.

90+1 min There will be three minutes of added time. “Your support is effing shit,” chant the Leicester fans, who invented cheering.

89 min Paul Pogba is Sky’s Man of the Match, and quite right too. He has given extremely good YouTube, especially in a scintillating five-minute period in the first half.

  


































88 min Another United substitution: Ashley Young on, Juan Mata off after one of his better days at Old Trafford.

87 min “On the bright side, Rob, every time we’ve lost 4-1 this season before a Champions League game we’ve won said CL game 3-0,” says John Allen. “Claudio has a plan.”

85 min Ibrahimovic, loitering on the left side of the box, whips a curler too close to Zieler.

84 min Here’s Raymond Reardon. “Whatever meal has been served up by the combined recruiting of Ferguson, Moyes, LVG and Mourinho it is at least more palatable than the 12-year slow roast that Wenger has been trying to cook.”

83 min Wayne Rooney replaces Marcus Rashford, and will play out on the left of the front three.

     82 min The cocky, impressive Gray runs at Blind and wins Leicester a corner. It’s cleared to Drinkwater, whose shot deflects behind for another corner. That is recycled to Gray, who beats Blind on the right and hits a beautiful ball right across the face of goal. He has been superb since coming on at half-time.

81 min: BREAKING NEWS: WAYNE ROONEY IS TAKING HIS TRACKY TOP OFF

80 min I’m afraid we’re having a few technical problems. In the last few minutes you’ve missed another fine effort by Gray that was superbly tipped round by the leaping De Gea, and the introduction of Michael Carrick for Jesse Lingard.

76 min Valencia’s vicious rising cross just evades Ibrahimovic, who attempted a high kick at the far post.

74 min Simpson is booked for tripping Rashford, whose blistering pace ensured he beat Simpson to a loose ball.

72 min Manchester United get a left-wing corner - and don’t score! It’s cleared to Herrera, who welts over from 25 yards.

70 min Despite his goal Rashford hasn’t had his best game today. He has tried a bit too hard, and his decision-making has been unusually poor. Has the bubble burst?