Leicester City 2 - 1 Man Utd
By Bill Anderson
Leicester City rose to 4th in the Premiership after a gritty display aginst strugling Man Utd yesterday. As expected the Red Devils dominated possesion but were unable to make it count, and looked ripe for the picking when leicester were able to break. Manager Feriol had switched to a 433 formation specially for the game, and the switch paid off.
City's two defensive midfielders Wesolowski and Ghalli worked hard to ensure the devils could only turn their early possestion into long range efforts, which Alexanda was more than capable of dealing with, and leicester would prove to the more incisive of the teams. First in the 32nd minute. Ghalli outmuscled scholes in midfield and quickly moved the ball to the left wing, where the skillful Fogia, on loan from milan proceeded to run at the united defence, easily beating the right back before running into the area, and knoking the ball across goal for Vucinic, who curled the ball sweetly past the keeper. City were then on the acendancy, Maldonado constantly testing the united the defence with his running down the right and teasing crosses, but Ferdinand was more than capable of beating vucinic in the air. At Half time City ould have been further in front.
The second half proved to be a backs to the wall job for Feriol's team, Ronaldo and Rooney keeping them pegged back until the breakthru came in the 68th minute, Ronaldo bursting into the box, skillfully evading the defence before curling to the far post, Alexander saved briliantly, but ould only divert the ball into the path of Saha to tap home. United pressed for the winner with the same determination, but city's attacking force, although quiet for most of the game, would again prove superior in the 81st minute, Fogia skillfully turned his man as he collected a city clearance before launching a pin point pass behind Ferdinand and Brown, Vucinic won the race, and got into the area, Despite pressure from the recovering Ferdinand, Vucinic had the composure to slot home to send the Home support into hysteria and home happy.
Commenting after the game, Feriol was quick to praise his players for fantastic start to the season, "It wasn't fantastic football from our point of view, but a win against one of the big teams is always fantastic. That said, i believe we are up to fourth now? and after 15 games, in our first season up, the players deserve a lot of credit, not only for this result, but for consistantly performing"
City: Alexander, Stearman, Sheehan, Kisnorbo, Powell (78 McCarthy), Wesolowski, Johnson, Tstartsis (61 Guadiolla), Fogia, Maldonado, Vucinic (85 Clarkson) Subs not used: Speroni, Williams