London: Manchester United fell further behind Manchester City at the top of the Premier League when defender Harry Maguire scored in the final minute of added time to earn Leicester City a 2-2 draw, Saturday. They were left 13 points behind their irrepressible neighbours who notched up their 17th win on the trot earlier in the evening, at the halfway stage of the campaign.
Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez combined for Vardy’s 50th Premier League goal in the 27th minute, the Algerian holding up Wilfred Ndidi’s pass for Vardy to score.
Juan Mata equalised before half time after Jesse Lingard touched Anthony Martial’s cross to him, then scored with a direct free-kick.
Leicester looked doomed when they had substitute Daniel Amartey sent off only 17 minutes after he came on, for two yellow cards in quick succession. But in the fourth minute of added time England defender Maguire slid in Marc Albrighton’s cross to salvage a point for his side.
Man United manager Jose Mourinho was left cursing ‘childish’ errors at both ends of the pitch. “We didn’t win because we missed incredible chances, joke chances,” he told ‘Sky Sports’. “We were punished by our mistakes. Childish loss of possession, so easy. Childish in their box and childish in our box.”
The worst of the wasted chances he referred to were set up in the second half by Romelu Lukaku but frittered away by his teammates. The Belgian put through first Martial, who fired wildly over the bar, and then Lingard, also clean through, who could only hit a post.
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