Jose Mourinho admitted he dropped captain Wayne Rooney so he could inject more pace into his Manchester United team for Saturday’s 4-1 victory against Leicester City. The gamble to axe Rooney was vindicated as United swept into a 4-0 lead at half-time against the champions with goals shared between stand-in skipper Chris Smalling, Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba, his first for the club.
Though keen to offer 30-year-old Rooney sympathetic words afterwards, the manner in which Mourinho saw Jesse Lingard and Rashford tear Leicester apart with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Mata pulling the strings in the middle made unhappy viewing for the England skipper, who played only the final seven minutes as substitute
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