Manchester United has stained more misery on their former striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy while they won a 3-0 Premier League victory against Leicester City of relegation.
United entered the match in mind after his impressive victory for their impressive victory of the Europa League against Real Sociedad.
And they brought the momentum in the shock of Sunday at the King Power Stadium, with the team of Ruben Amorim shedding light on the work of a team of Leicester which seems intended for gout.
Ramsus Hojlund opened the scoring with his first goal since December, and Alejandro Garnacho made sure points while United pushed Van Nistelrooy’s men to an apparently inevitable return to the championship.
The Bruno Fernandes, once again instrumental, the hero of the triplet of United against Sociedad, added a brilliant to the score with a curling strike to make 3-0, capping a performance which will give amorim a confidence while his team seeks to end the national season on a large and to push for glory on the European scene.
Only an injury to the teenage defender Ayden Heaven, who had to be withdrawn from the field on a stretcher six minutes after the start of the second half, attenuated the atmosphere for a united side of gathering steam late.
Leicester against Manchester United
Leicester, on credit, started alive and would have been forward at the fifth minute if Andre Onana had not produced a wide stop to turn a Jamie Vardy effort for a corner after the former English striker was played by a Wilfred Ndidi through Ball.
But it was as close as the Foxes came that United dictated things afterwards, Christian Eriksen striking the post with a flexion effort that had beaten Mads Hermansen in the 24th minute.
However, there would be no reprieve for Hermansen when his compatriot Dane Hojlund allowed the goal four minutes later.
Fernandes folded a superb ball on the right key line and Hojlund showed the composure which so often denied it through the goal and in the lower corner to the left.
Ndidi fired at the end of a Leicester break six minutes before the interval, and his debauchery proved expensive while United moved through the gears in the second period.
United seemed to have a second when Garnacho cut on his left foot and pulled in the most distant corner, only for the goal to be excluded by Var for the offside.
But Garnacho would not see himself refused a second time in the 67th minute, Hermansen sets himself in his hand to his painful shot but unable to keep him outside after Fernandes has pushed the ball to the Argentinian.
It is rightly Fernandes who would have the last word late, leaning beyond a desperate hermansen by another desperate day for Leicester, who remains at nine security points with so many games.
