Manchester United are desperate to grab their second Premier League win of the season and maybe start a winning streak, their next chance is on Saturday when they host Leicester City at Old Trafford. Last season the Red Devils defeated the Foxes 2-1 at home and 1-0 away, taking their tally in direct matches to seven victories in the last eight games. The last time Leicester won a match against Man United was in 2014, when they recorded a spectacular 5-3 victory at King Power Stadium. However, the last time they won at Old Trafford was in 1998.
Manchester United had a superb start to the season, defeating Chelsea 4-0 at Old Trafford in the first weekend of the campaign, but then things seemed to go from bad to worse. In the next match they recorded a 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton, not a terrible result, but then they lost 2-1 at home against Crystal Palace before grabbing a 1-1 draw at Southampton. Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer surely is worried about those three matches without a win, and he also has some injury concerns as Eric Bailly, Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Luke Shaw are sidelined while Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Paul Pogba, Diogo Dalot, Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard are doubtful.
Leicester are one of the three Premier League teams that are still unbeaten after four matches, they recorded two wins and two draws so far. Before the international break the Foxes grabbed a fine 3-1 home victory over Bournemouth, just a few days after having defeated Newcastle United on penalties in the League Cup. Manager Brendan Rodgers can field his strongest eleven at Old Trafford, even though Daniel Amartey and Matty James are unavailable through injuries.
Probable line-ups:
Man United: De Gea - Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Young - Pogba, McTominay - James, Mata, Rashford - Greenwood
Leicester: Schmeichel - Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell - Albrighton, Tielemans, Ndidi, Choudhury, Maddison - Vardy
My prediction:
Manchester United will surely have another tough match here, I doubt the Red Devils can win this one and I think they will have to settle for a 2-2 draw.
Here are the odds for the match at NetBet:
Man United win - 1.83
Draw - 3.70
Leicester win - 4.40
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sharpe
09/17/19, 02:09:07 PM
Yeah, as Johnny mentioned above it's been expected that one to be a tough game for United and it has been exactly that, in the end Leicester have a very good squad...
Yeah, as Johnny mentioned above it's been expected that one to be a tough game for United and it has been exactly that, in the end Leicester have a very good squad and maybe even superior compared to that to United even with injured Pogba and Marcial included. It wasn't a great game at all, United have needed to grind out a result and they've done that but hopefully they'll improve in style in the next games cause otherwise they'll struggle. Ole should be braver playing the youth cause the lights of Matic and Mata are obviously not good enough.
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