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Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winner as Manchester United kicked off the season by beating Leicester City 2-1 to win the Community Shield
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Sun 7 Aug 2016 13.05 EDT
First published on Sun 7 Aug 2016 10.00 EDT
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And that’s yer lot. Leicester trudge up the steps for the most pointless medals in football, while United will lift that big plate shortly.
Cheers for reading, we’ll see you soon.
And so, Manchester United set themselves up for a successful season by winning the Community Shield!
— Ben McAleer (@BenMcAleer1) August 7, 2016
Entertaining full-time whistle there - Schmeichel was up in the United box again, and as the ball was cleared Ibrahimovic takes it clear and has a chance to score, but the referee blows up. There’s a brief moment of confusion before the United fans realise they’ve won. Bit weird, quite funny.
Full-time: Leicester City 1-2 Manchester United
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! United win the Community Shield!
90 mins + 5: Another colossal throw from Hernandez, it drops to Gray and Leicester claim his shot was charged down by an arm, but nothing doing there.
90 mins + 4: Schmeichel stays up for a long, long throw from Hernandez, which causes a degree of chaos in the box, but De Gea eventually claims. There’s a brief moment of disagreement between some of the United defenders and Schmeichel, but they’re all friends in the end.
90 mins + 3: Mata is the man going off for Mkhitaryan. Man, unless that’s an injury, Mourinho really hates Mata...
90 mins + 2: Corner, and Schmeichel’s up for it...but it sails over his head and Drinkwater’s shot is charged down.
90 mins: Four minutes added time. If he’s lucky, Henrikh Mkhitaryan might get a few minutes of running around.
89 mins: Another change for Leicester as they go for the equaliser - Leonardo Ulloa is on for Huth.
88 mins: Little hint of offside about the goal. Zlatan’s toe might have been off - which counts, obviously, but let’s let the lino off that one.
87 mins: Another sub for United - Rooney is replaced by Morgan Schneiderlin.
85 mins: Chance wasted for Leicester. A corner finds its way out to Schlupp, who drives into the box on the left and crosses to the back post. There’s Mahrez, who perhaps could have shot first time but instead controls, then dithers, and the chance is gone,
83 mins: He’s been quiet/ineffective for most of the game, but Ibrahimovic may well have scored the winner: Valencia gets down the right side of the box and clips a cross into the box, where Ibrahimovic gets above Morgan, directs a header back across goal and it just creeps inside the far post.
GOAL! Leicester City 1-2 Manchester United (Ibrahimovic 83)
And there he is.
81 mins: Yeesh, Musa goes close. A long throw into the box is flicked on by Huth and Musa, falling backwards on the edge of the six-yard box, back-heads the ball just over the bar. Possibly should have done better.
80 mins: Another sub - this time it’s Jeffrey Schlupp on for Fuchs.
79 mins: Corner from the right, and the ball finds its way to Rooney, who knocks it back to Ibrahimovic, but his shot is underhit and doesn’t threaten the goal.
78 mins: A long ball down the right for United is chased by Valencia, the Leicester defence dithers rather but eventually Schmeichel races out and clears.
77 mins: Rashford is sparky straight away, and wins a corner which Rooney puts into the box. Bailly then zips around like a balloon that’s just been let go, loses his boot and barrels Gray over. Feisty stuff.
75 mins: Ooof - Vardy goes in on Mata with two feet, for which he’s booked: he complains at length, but he might be a little lucky the punishment wasn’t even more severe.
74 mins: Ibrahimovic tries a little flick over the top looking for Rooney, but doesn’t get it high enough. The Swedish ego hasn’t been especially effective so far.
71 mins: Bailly goes into the book, after shoving Vardy over fairly pointlessly - the Leicester striker was heading towards the touchline with not much support. The big silly. Drinkwater whips in the free-kick and it nearly eludes De Gea, but he manages to get there and make the save.
69 mins: Subs for United - Shaw gets a breather, and Marcos Rojo gets a go, while Marcus Rashford comes on for Martial. One of those arrivals is greeted with a little more enthusiasm from the stands than the other.
68 mins: Gray is R.A.P.I.D. He streaks through the middle at a ferocious pace, but just loses control of the ball as he approaches the area.
67 mins: Mendy and Fellaini clash, the former coming away with the ball. There’s a round of applause around the stadium for the England 1966 World Cup winners, some of whom are in the stands. Try to control your pedantry.
64 mins: Ibrahimovic tries a pass down the left channel for Rooney, but it was overhit and hugely optimistic about Rooney’s pace.
63 mins: And Juan Mata is on for Lingard.
62 mins: Couple of changes for Leicester now - Nampalys Mendy is on for King, while Luis Hernandez replaces Simpson, who’s been given a chasing for much of the game.
Meanwhile Lingard has taken his boot off and sat down on the pitch. He’ll be going off shortly.
61 mins: Subs ahoy - United first, as Ander Herrera comes on for Carrick.
60 mins: Fuchs is seemingly knocked over by Valencia, everyone half-stops on the assumption that a free-kick is imminent, but nothing doing.
58 mins: Ibrahimovic feeds Rooney on the right, who crosses from the corner of the area to the back post. Fellaini goes up with Simpson, by which I mean he climbs all over the right-back’s shoulders and is suitably penalised.
56 mins: Getting sparkier now. Leicester counter, and Gray tries a shot from outside the area, but it’s far too weak and De Gea gets the long barrier behind it and saves.
55 mins: King goes into the book for a foul on Lingard, for which he raked down the United man’s Achilles. He tries a nice variant on the ‘point at the ball to display I won it’ by picking up said ball and brandishing it in front of the ref. No dice.
54 mins: Rooney tries to get United back ahead with a shot from range and, hmmm, yes, well. We’ll just say it didn’t go in. Very didn’t go in. Massively didn’t go in.
52 mins: Oh boy, Fellaini. A fine run from Musa down the left and he stabs it infield, but Fellaini is there to collect it easily and poke it back to De Gea saf...oh, wait, no - he badly underhits the pass, Vardy nips in, takes it round the keeper and slips it home from a tight angle.
GOAL! Leicester City 1-1 Manchester United (Vardy 52)
And from nothing they’re level!
51 mins: Shaw misses a header and Mahrez picks up the ball, but then a combination of dithering from Vardy and Musa gives up the chance. Drinkwater then tries a slide-rule pass through the defence that isn’t slidey or ruley enough.
49 mins: More smart work from Martial down the left, but he cuts his cross back behind the onrushing attackers. Ibrahimovic lays it back to Rooney on the edge of the area, but he hesitates enough that he can’t take a first time shot, and then when he does try to control it bounces five yards away. That traffic bollard touch of Rooney’s again.
48 mins: Musa tries to break through the middle and is stopped by a fine Bailly tackle. Aside from one premature lunge in the first-half, United’s new centre-back has looked pretty impressive so far.
46 mins: And we’re away. Drinkwater tries a ball down the line but his pass is overhit.
Couple of changes at half-time - Demarai Gray is coming on for Leicester, as is new man Ahmed Musa. Okazaki and Albrighton are the ones coming off.
United probably deserve the lead, although Leicester did have a pretty good spell of possession in the middle of the half there. Vardy’s had a few moments of danger and Okazaki went close twice in the space of a minute or so. But United have clearly been more threatening, particularly down the left where Martial continues to me a terror. Simpson is...having a bad afternoon.
Half-time: Leicester City 0-1 Manchester United
Peeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
45 mins: Albrighton bawls out the linesman for not giving him a corner, Mourinho screams at his players to ‘PRESS THE BALL’. Calm down guys, where’s your sense of charit...erm, community?
44 mins: Mahrez has been quiet. He cuts in from the left and is eased away from the ball by Shaw, then Rooney - deep again - is there to nick the ball off his toes.
42 mins: Quiet spell. Albrighton tries to flick a header to Vardy but it doesn’t get there. At what point in this game do the players stop trying? They probably should do at some point...
39 mins: And the inevitable happens. Simpson goes into the book for the most blatant block on Rooney as the United skipper knocks it past him. When you’re not confident about beating Rooney in a foot race...
38 mins: Simpson is getting a chasing so far, largely from Martial. He then drags Ibrahimovic to the ground.
37 mins: Corner for Leicester, which is swung to the near post for King, who gets up for the header and sticks it comfortably wide.
36 mins: Some good pace from United. Shaw bombs forward from left-back and tries a cross, that is blocked, but the intent is encouraging from their perspective. One of their great problems has been a lack of speed, so if Shaw carries on like that they’ll be golden.
34 mins: Schmeichel was thoroughly displeased with how his team defended that Lingard run, and you can’t blame him.
32 mins: Smashing goal from Jesse Lingard, picking up the ball in midfield and streaking through the heart of the Leicester defence. He beats one man, then sneaks past Morgan who committed too early to a strong challenge, then guides it into the net via a slight touch from Schmeichel. Terrific work.
GOAL! Leicester City 0-1 Manchester United (Lingard 32)
Against the run of play, that...
30 mins: As Leicester have more of the ball, Rooney has dropped deeper and deeper. He tries to create something in the middle but leaves the ball behind. Wayne, you’re not a midfielder anymore...