Manchester United breezed into the EFL Cup quarter-finals with a 5-2 win over Leicester Metropolis, as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s first recreation in interim cost led to victory.
Erik ten Hag was sacked on Monday with assistant Van Nistelrooy stepping right into a caretaker function, with United anticipated to quickly appoint Sporting’s Ruben Amorim as their everlasting boss.
Van Nistelrooy’s tenure obtained off to an encouraging begin with Casemiro’s long-range end into the top-right nook after simply quarter-hour, earlier than Alejandro Garnacho scored from Diogo Dalot’s cross 13 minutes later.
Bilal El Khannouss scrambled a strike previous Altay Bayindir to cut back the arrears within the thirty third minute, although Bruno Fernandes restored the hosts’ two-goal benefit with a deflected free-kick effort quickly after.
Casemiro then hammered house a rebound from shut vary simply three minutes later, earlier than Conor Coady once more lowered the deficit on the stroke of half-time when capitalising on a unfastened ball to transform.
Fernandes doubled his personal tally and prolonged United’s lead simply previous the hour, rounding Danny Ward to cap the rout following a poor go backwards by Caleb Okoli.
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Van Nistelrooy was at all times anticipated to have the Previous Trafford crowd on facet, owing to his enjoying days on the membership, and Leicester struggled to get going at a spot they’ve struggled in current occasions.
The Foxes have now misplaced 12 of their final 15 away video games at United in all competitions (gained one, drawn two), whereas the Crimson Devils have managed seven victories of their final eight house video games on this competitors (misplaced one).
It proved to be a convincing win as properly, with United accumulating 2.95 anticipated targets (xG) to Leicester’s meagre 0.99.