A goal from
Jamie Vardy
five minutes from the end deprived Manchester United (3rd) of taking the three points from Leicester (2nd), in a disputed match that started the traditional Boxing Day in the Premier, which will play five more games this Saturday of the fifteenth day.
Before the distribution of points of his two pursuers, the main beneficiary could be the leader Liverpool if he prevails at Anfield on Sunday at West Bromwich (19th).
The 'Foxes', with one more game, add 28 points after their first draw of the season, three points behind the 'Reds', while the 'Reds Devils' have 27 units.
But Leicester's second place is threatened by Everton, Chelsea and Tottenham in a tight upper part of the table.
Marcus Rashford put
the visitors ahead in the 23rd minute, receiving only in the heart of the area and narrowly beating Danish goalkeeper
Kasper Schmeichel
.
Leicester did not take long to respond, and did so with a left-handed missile from outside
Harvey Barnes' area
that made the stretch of the Spanish international goalkeeper
David De Gea
(31)
sterile
.
The second half lived a carbon copy of the first, with United once again taking the lead thanks to the Portuguese
Bruno Fernandes
(79), passed by the Uruguayan
Edinson Cavani
, until shortly after the forward
Jamie Vardy
established the final draw with his twelfth goal in this Premier, only one of the leading director, the Egyptian of Liverpool
Mohamed Salah
.
The team of
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
sealed their first league match away from home without the three points at the end of an intense shock but with a result that did justice to what happened at the King Power Stadium.
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