Sancho scored his second goal of the season in the 23rd minute at The King Power Stadium on Thursday night, propelling United to fifth place, ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea.
The manager of the home side, Brendan Rodgers, made three changes to the XI which fell to defeat at Chelsea last weekend, but as former Manchester United said during the game, Manchester United didn’t look like conceding goals as they start to adapt to Erik Ten Hag’s style of play.
James Maddison, Luke Thomas, and Wilfred Ndidi were all added to Brendan Rogers’ starting lineup, although they were unable to score a goal against Erik Ten Hag’s new Manchester United team.
At Filbert Way, with the capacity crowd having to wait 10 minutes for the first opening as Leicester sought their first win of the season, Bruno Fernandes set up Sancho to round off Danny Ward as he capitalised on a through-ball to score.
Cristiano Ronaldo and his former Real Madrid teammate Casemiro were once again on the bench as Erik ten Hag announced the Manchester United lineup for their 1-0 victory at Southampton.
Ten Hag’s defenders at The King Power Stadium were desperate to end Manchester United’s record of not losing for eight years while leading at halftime because Leicester did not have a touch in the Manchester United box during the first half.
James Maddison, an England midfielder and playmaker, took a free kick from 25 yards out and curled it around the wall and into the top corner as Leicester, who are yet to win a game this season, looked for an equaliser early in the second half, which forced David de Gea into a flying save.
The Ten Hag defence lined up at King Power Stadium with satisfactory defence statistics of 15 tackles, a 53.3% tackle success rate, and 10 clearances, allowing the team to keep a clean sheet in two consecutive league games in the 2022/2023 season.
Erik Ten Hag said in post-match after the win at King Power Stadium, “Again [we had] good team spirit, we had 11 players on the pitch who fight for each other, I’m happy with the clean sheet. When our 11 are on the pitch, we defend together and attack together. Once Casemiro and Ronnie [Cristiano Ronaldo] get fitter and fitter, we will [have] more contributions to give to the team, so we need not only a team but a squad.”
