Leicester City vs Manchester United – Community Shield – Preview

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Sreya

Leicester City will face Manchester United in the FA Community Shield on 7th August, Sunday in their first match of the season.

Leicester City surprised football fans across the world when they won the English Premier League last season. Manchester United, on the other hand, won FA Cup in Louis Van Gaal’s last game in charge of the Red Devils.

While Leicester City have already lost N’Golo Kante to Chelsea, Manchester United have strengthened with the arrivals of Zlatan Ibrahimovich and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and so on.

José Mourinho is looking to start his United career with a win and a victory in the opening game of the season will boost United’s confidence en route to their race of re-capturing the Premier League trophy.

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“All managers and players want to play at Wembley Stadium. It’s one of the most famous stadiums in the world.

This is not a friendly. We will give the maximum and also Manchester United will too. Both teams want to win it.”

– Claudio Ranieri, Leicester City.

Claudio Ranieri will be hopeful of the fact that both Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two primary goalscoring threats of the Premier League Champions are still with the club.

“The week of no work in China was really bad for us. So we need to train, we need to play, we need minutes for the players.

Now we have no chance to train against other teams. We have Leicester before the Premier League and it is not a training session – it is a game.”

– José Mourinho, Manchester United.

According to Head-2-Head statistics, Manchester United have won 48% and lost 26% of their matches against Leicester City. The odds are heavily staked against Leicester City and it is unlikely that the Foxes will be able to get the better of Mourinho’s men.

The author predicts that Manchester United are likely to win 3-1 tonight.