Leicester Stops MU's Away Win Trend

Boxing Day match between Leicester versus MU (Photo: Between)

JAKARTA - Leicester City has stopped Manchester United's winning streak. Brendan Rosgers' troops managed to hold the guest to a 2-2 draw in the Premier League Boxing Day match at the King Power Stadium, Saturday.

As a result of this result, MU failed to match the streak of away victories that Chelsea and Manchester City have in the form of 11 matches.

In addition, MU also failed to take over Leicester from second in the standings. Leicester remain in second place with 28 points and Manchester United just one point below them, according to the official Premier League page records.

According to Antara, according to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's ambition, this time MU was able to take the lead over the host after the comeback trend in the previous six away matches.

The advantage was produced by Marcus Rashford's goal who swiftly grabbed the ball from Bruno Fernandes' feed to trick goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel in the 23rd minute.

But the advantage didn't last long, eight minutes later Harvey Barnes was able to equalize after snatching the ball from Fernandes' possession and firing a brilliant shot into the left corner of the post.

The score lasted until halftime and United looked more convincing to restore their lead, but Schmeichel made two brilliant saves to stop Rashford and Fernandes on the counter-attacking situation in the 62nd minute.

Two minutes later, Anthony Martial was already celebrating as he thought he had restored MU's lead after hitting the ball into the hosts' goal but his goal was disallowed because he was caught offside when Fernandes sent a through ball.

MU's hard work finally paid off in the 79th minute when Fernandes completed Edinson Cavani's through ball, who had only been on for Martial four minutes, to make it 2-1 against Leicester.

However, once again the lead was lost when Ayoze Perez's cross was cleared by Jamie Vardy to beat goalkeeper David de Gea in the 85th minute.

The goal was later considered an suicide because the last ball hit defender Axel Tuanzebe before it lodged into the MU goal.

The draw means both Leicester and MU are in danger of being knocked out of the top four after the Boxing Day series as Everton, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs and Southampton overshadow them.

Leicester will then visit Crystal Palace headquarters in Selhurst Park, London, on Monday, December 28, while United play against Wolverhampton at Old Trafford a day later.