United Thrash Leicester Without Rooney
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Powerful Son Liverpool crush keeps Spurs Hull 5-1 to boost on the19 rise title 19credentials SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 Barcelona rout Sporting 5-0 in 1st game without Messi Page 18 MANCHESTER: Leicester City’s English defender Danny Simpson (left) tackles Manchester United’s English striker Marcus Rashford during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Leicester City at Old Trafford in Manchester yesterday. — AFP United thrash Leicester without Rooney ($115 million, 102 million euros) arrival from Juventus, Swede’s effort on the turn just cleared the bar. Next it Champions League meeting with FC Porto on Tuesday. were also on target after England captain Rooney was was Pogba’s turn to let fly with an outrageous effort from And they almost had some joy when David De Gea dived Man United 4 dropped to the substitutes’ bench. But it was a chasten- 30 yards that bent towards the top corner but was forced at the feet of Islam Slimani but gifted possession back to ing afternoon for Leicester despite an improved second- away by Leicester goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler. the visitors with a poor throw. Fuchs wasted the chance, half display and a brilliant consolation goal from half- United finally added a second goal as they turned on however, with a poor cross. And at the other end Mata time substitute Demarai Gray. the style eight minutes before half-time. Ander Herrera tried to add his second goal with a firm shot that Zieler Leicester 1 It was the second successive Premier League away started the move with a fine ball to Mata before a clever parried well. It was one of the half-time substitutes who game in which Leicester had shipped four goals after pass by Pogba and a fine flick by Jesse Lingard allowed salvaged a modicum of respectability for Leicester with a MANCHESTER: Manchester United dismantled Premier doing so at Liverpool two weeks ago. Leicester held their Mata to blast past Zieler. And the third goal arrived just goal of real quality on the hour-mark. League champions Leicester in a ruthless 20-minute own early on with Robert Huth lashing a shot just over two minutes later as Leicester handed a chance to Gray collected a crossfield pass from Daniel Amartey burst as Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney but it was United who edged in front in the 22nd minute Rashford which the youngster snapped up. The visitors and cut inside Lingard before lashing a brilliant shot was rewarded with a 4-1 win at Old Trafford yesterday. after some neat play wide on the left had forced a corner. were caught napping as Blind took a quick corner and past a helpless De Gea from 25 yards. But United were Leicester imploded defensively as United racked up four It was delivered by Daley Blind and Smalling escaped the Mata was free to square for an unmarked Rashford to fin- soon back on the attack as Zieler made a smart save goals between the 22nd and 42nd minutes. It was a styl- United defense to power home a header from six yards. ish from close range. from Ibrahimovic. Two more Leicester substitutes com- ish display from a United side who had entered the game Rashford should have doubled United’s lead moments bined for what should have been a second goal but under pressure after losing their last two league games, later when Leicester squandered possession and Zlatan Double change Andy King produced a tame shot from a Jeff Schlupp against Manchester City and Watford, with Chris Smalling Ibrahimovic galloped forwards and squared for the It was 4-0 before half-time as another corner by Blind cross and De Gea saved easily. Gray then went within a opening the scoring after replacing Rooney as captain. teenager. But Rashford’s first touch was heavy and his was headed in by Pogba as he leapt above Christian whisker of replicating his stunning goal with an almost Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba, with his shot flew over. Ibrahimovic then went close to a goal Fuchs. Leicester made a double change at half-time with identical effort which De Gea scrambled back to push first United goal following his world record £89 million after collecting a fabulous pass by Pogba, but the key duo Vardy and Riyad Mahrez withdrawn ahead of the over the bar. — AFP Aguero’s double keeps City perfect under Guardiola Stones, beat Bravo with a stunning volley from 16 yards. With the ball at their feet, Swansea 1 Swansea showed decent quality. They were confident in moving through the gears and lacked only one aspect-the final delivery. Still, it was enough to keep City on their Man City 3 toes. Bacary Sagna was shown the yellow card for man-handling Kyle Naughton and SWANSEA: Sergio Aguero scored twice as Sterling was fortunate to escape similar Manchester City made it 10 wins in as many punishment when he tripped Angel Rangel. games this season with a 3-1 victory away Although Swansea were causing one or LONDON: A combination of picture created in London shows (left to right) Arsenal’s manager Frenchman Arsene Wenger. Arsene Wenger to Swansea in the Premier League yester- two problems at the right end, they almost memorably announced his arrival as a revolutionary force in England by banning his players from eating sweets, but the Arsenal manager’s day. Aguero marked his return to action conceded a second 11 minutes from half reign has turned increasingly sour as he marks the 20th anniversary of his appointment. — AFP with two well-taken goals for Pep time. Kevin de Bruyne was sent through by Guardiola’s league leaders after serving a Ilkay Gundogan, but with only Fabianski to Arsenal mark Wenger’s 20th anniversary in style three-game ban for throwing an elbow in beat, the Belgian hooked his shot well last month’s victory over West Ham. wide. A booking for David Silva, for dissent, The Argentinean striker opened the was greeted with loud cheers from the they claimed a first league win over their London courtesy of an embarrassing error by Gary Cahill Swansea supporters who, after an exacting rivals since a 5-3 triumph in October 2011. that left him hiding his face in his hands. Forty scoring in the ninth minute and he made it Arsenal 3 2-0 25 minutes from time before Raheem start to the season, were beginning to see It was Arsenal’s biggest league win over yards from goal, the England centre-back allowed some light. Chelsea since April 1997 and their most hand- himself to be robbed by Sanchez, who surged Sterling beat Lukasz Fabianski in the 77th minute at the Liberty Stadium as City beat For City, there was growing frustration. some home victory against the west London club into the box before clipping a lovely finish over Swansea for the second time in a week They dominated the ball for long periods in 26 years. Arsenal climbed to third place in the Courtois for his fourth goal in three games. It was Chelsea 0 after their EFL Cup success. A swift move but struggled to break down Swansea’s res- Premier League table, five points below leaders Arsenal’s first league goal against Chelsea in sev- on the right, a clever turn from Aguero and olute back four, led ably, by Jordi Amat. The Manchester City, after registering four successive en games and within three minutes they had the visitors were a goal to the good. second half was barely two minutes old LONDON: Arsenal gave manager Arsene Wenger league wins for the first time in over a year. another. Swansea came close to levelling matters in when Swansea had a golden opportunity to a 20th anniversary to remember as Alexis Antonio Conte’s Chelsea, whose side have now A slick passing combination culminated in the 12th minute when Kyle Naughton, edge themselves in front. Wayne Routledge Sanchez, Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil scored in a gone three league games without a win, slid to Alex Iwobi intelligently picking out Hector playing out of position at left back, found found himself in acres of space on the right, slick 3-0 victory over Chelsea yesterday. This week eighth, the optimism engendered by their three Bellerin on the right-hand side of the box and himself one on one with Claudio Bravo, the but, inexplicably, chose to dissect Bravo’s far marked 20 years since Wenger’s appointment and opening victories now almost a distant memory. the Spaniard’s low cross was swept home by City goalkeeper. post and Llorente with a ball that rolled whereas Chelsea had spoilt his 1,000th game at Wenger made 11 changes to the second-string Walcott. Briefly, hope flickered for Chelsea. Bravo pulled off a decent save before harmlessly out of play. Five minutes later, the Arsenal helm with a 6-0 win in March 2014, team that had won 4-0 at Nottingham Forest in Willian drilled a shot narrowly wide and Arsenal’s City cleared. However, a minute later and the imperious Sigurdsson sent a crisp volley high and wide after Routledge had picked this milestone was memorable for the right rea- the League Cup and his big guns fired immedi- rhythm was disrupted by the loss of Francis the Swans were level. Gylfi Sigurdsson out the Icelandic midfielder with a lobbed sons. Arsenal exploited lackadaisical Chelsea ately, Santi Cazorla stinging Thibaut Courtois’s Coquelin to an apparent knee injury, with Granit poked a ball through to Fernando Llorente, pass of real quality.