Three things we learnt from Manchester United’s return to winning ways against Leicester

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Problems at both ends for the Foxes

Leicester City are a team in turmoil at the moment; there’s no specific area of the pitch that can be highlighted as a weakness, and that’s the worry for Claudio Ranieri ahead of his relegation fight.

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They rarely threatened at the United end of the pitch, with only Ahmed Musa getting in behind the Reds’ back-line once only to be thwarted by a recovering Eric Bailly, and yet another scoreless match now means that the Foxes have failed to score in their opening five Premier League matches of 2017.

Last year’s saviours Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy look out of ideas when they’re on the attack, and it’s genuinely hard to see where the next Leicester City goal will come from.

At the other end, a Leicester defence that was controlled and led so well by Wes Morgan and Robert Huth last season has simply fallen to pieces. Ibrahimovic was left in acres of room for his goal, whilst Morgan switched off and kept at least two players onside for Juan Mata to rub salt into Leicester’s wounds.

The January addition of Wilfred Ndidi seems to have done nothing to plug the huge gap that N’Golo Kante left with his departure, and it’s starting to seem like desperate times at the King Power.