Fernandes guides Manchester United to comfortable win
Manchester United cast aside struggling Leicester City 3-0, with Bruno Fernandes taking a leading role once more.
Rasmus Hojlund and Alejandro Garnacho ended their Premier League goal droughts either side of the interval at the King Power Stadium.
Both goals were teed up by Fernandes, who supplied a pass into Hojlund for United's 28th-minute opener, though the Dane still had plenty of work to do to score his first league goal since early December.
Garnacho saw a goal disallowed for offside before he also benefitted from a Fernandes assist, though this one was rather more scrappy.
Fernandes may just have got a toe to the ball to prod it into the path of Garnacho, whose first-time finish caught Mads Hermansen cold at the near post.
United's talisman had the final say in the 90th minute, curling home from the edge of the area to add gloss to a routine victory that took Ruben Amorim's team into 13th.
Leicester, meanwhile, is staring down the barrel of relegation. They are nine points from safety with nine games remaining.
Fresh from his hat-trick against Real Sociedad, Fernandes was integral to everything United did well this time out, and he has now recorded 50 Premier League assists. He is the sixth Red Devils player to hit that milestone in the competition, after Ryan Giggs (162), Wayne Rooney (93), David Beckham (80), Paul Scholes (55) and Eric Cantona (51).
Since his United debut in February 2020, only Kevin De Bruyne (90) has recorded more assists across all competitions for a side in Europe's big five leagues than Fernandes (80), with him moving above Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller (79).
Fernandes moved onto 112 Premier League goal involvements for United, the 10th-most for the club in the competition, surpassing Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy.
This match is the ninth time in all competitions that Fernandes has recorded three goal involvements in a game for United.
While Fernandes did the damage for United, Leicester is surely done and dusted. It became the first team in English top-flight history to lose seven straight home games without scoring, despite finishing with a higher expected goals figure (1.17) than United (0.78).
The Foxes had their chances, with Jamie Vardy and Facundo Buonanotte going close, but they seem destined for an immediate return to the second tier.
