Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his first competitive goal for Manchester United to fire them to a 2-1 victory over Leicester City in the Community Shield yesterday.
Jamie Vardy had earlier cancelled out Jesse Lingard’s opener at Wembley, but Ibrahimovic struck late to hand Jose Mourinho his first piece of silverware as United manager.
The Premier League champions had their first chance in the 19th minute when Vardy laid the ball back for Shinji Okazaki, who floated a deflected effort narrowly wide of David de Gea’s goal.
It was United who got the first goal of the game shortly after the half-hour mark as Lingard repeated his FA Cup final heroics with another memorable Wembley goal, dribbling through the Leicester defence before slotting the ball past Schmeichel and into the bottom corner.
The Foxes were back level within seven minutes of the restart, though, and it was last season’s top scorer Vardy who opened his account for the 2016-17 campaign in trademark style.
The England international pounced on a poor back-pass from Fellaini to take the ball around De Gea before slotting it into the empty net from a tight angle having refused the chance to go down for a penalty.
The Foxes’ record signing Ahmed Musa had a good chance to put his side in front with nine minutes left when he stole in behind Marcos Rojo to get on the end of Robert Huth’s flick, but he could only loop his header over the bar from close range.
It proved to be a costly miss from the striker too as another summer arrival, Ibrahimovic, made himself the hero by getting just enough on his header to squeeze the ball past Schmeichel and in off the post.
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