90+4 min: Leicester are taking the mickey here. Backheels, nutmegs, it’s all getting a bit embarassing for United actually. Leicester fans cheering their team’s every pass. Meanwhile on the sidelines, Nigel Pearson hasn’t even smiled once. Iceman.

‘We’re taking the piss, we’re taking the piiiiiessss. We’re Leicester City, we’re taking the piss’, chant the crowd.

90+2 min: Game is fizzling out. Schlupp has caused problems with his pace since coming on, but has been largely wasteful with his final ball.

90 min: Six minutes (!) to be added on here. Groans from the home crowd, but they’re not in any danger. Herrera takes a dipping shot from range but it was going wide. Easy for Schmeichel.

Karl Mulloney-Radke writes “Vardy! Has he been involved in four of the five Leicester goals? Four assists? Surely man of the match?”

Alan Smith on the Sky commentary agrees.

87 min: United are on the ropes here. Schlupp has the ball on the edge with his back and turns well, but fires a powerful shot wide.

“Is it simple enough to blame this solely on Chris Smalling coming on?” asks Kevin Wilson. I’d lay most of the blame at Rojo’s door. Blackett was left horribly exposed.

‘Are you watching? Are you watching? Are you wathing Nottingham?’ chant the crowd.

85 min: Phew. What a game. And surely curtains for United. LVG has his head in his hands. Vardy is replaced by Schlupp. Another rousing reception.

The penalty again came down United’s left. Rojo is nowhere to be seen. Vardy is completely in the clear and runs straight for goal. He’s well inside the box before anybody catches up with him, Blackett sliding in from behind. It’s a definite pen, and a desperate challenge. Ulloa passes it into the bottom right hand corner.

De Laet once again breaks down the United left. Where is Rojo? He’s sprinting full pace with the ball,but clips a delightful pass through to Vardy – he’s in the clear! One touch to set himself, and a calm slot past De Gea! 4-3! What did we say about United high full backs!

‘We want five! We want five!’ cheer the Leicester faithful.

“Mata means eye in Malay. As ‘Juan’ is pronounced ‘one’, so he’s basically “one eye” in Malay. Makes for a good partnership with Blind, eh?”, emails Joseph Kaos Jr.

Mata is on for Di Maria, who was looking ragged.

In other news, West Brom have taken the lead at White Hart Lane. Match centre here!

76 min: De Laet gets the better of Di Maria (who is looking increasingly tired) and squares a pass for King. One touch and bang, the ball fizzes just wide of the far post! Could so easily have put Leicester in front!

74 min: Leicester are sitting deep and United look as though they’re going to throw some crosses into the box. With that in mind, it’s a strange decision to take off Falcao. Meanwhile Nugent is off for Matty James.

72 min: United finally seem to have got a hold on this game again, I think those substitutions helped them quell the momentum.

70 min: Cambiasso comes off for Andy King. He’s played his big Argentinean heart out. Standing ovation from the Leicester fans.

Meanwhile, for United, Adnan Januzaj is on for Falcao.

68 min: It’s all Leicester! United are just aimlessly hacking the ball clear at the moment. The stadium is rocking! Drinkwater gets to a wide position and delivers a dangerous ball into the box. You get the feeling Ulloa has the beating of Smalling in there. Da Silva covers and again hoofs it out.

It’s a scrappy goal, but Leicester won’t care. Hammond shapes to shoot from the edge of the box, but it ends up as a pass to Nugent. He mis-controls it, but again, it turns into a pass for the oncoming Cambiasso, who fires it low into the corner down to De Gea’s left. Cambiasso races to the corner with that crazed look on his face he often had at Internazionale. Lovely stuff!

I say ‘brought down’ in the box, I meant ‘touch’. Vardy went down very easy, it was never a pen! Nugent smashes it high down the middle.

60 min: Penalty for Leicester! I was just about to praise Da Silva for an excellent header away from Ulloa but he’s brought down Vardy in the box!

Da Silva gets forward and delivers a cross into what is commonly known as an uncertain corridor. Schmeichel claws it away but Van Persie is first to the rebound, and sets it for Blind running from deep on the edge. The Dutchman strikes it first time toward the far post, but Herrera deflects it with a cheeky flick to completely deceive Schmeichel. It looked as though it was accidental, but in the replays you can see Herrera meant every inch of that. Very cheeky. Van Gaal punches the air, he’s ruddy delighted.

55 min: As if to underline how important Di Maria is to this United side, the lack of pace in both Falcao and Van Persie could hurt United this season. Both are world-class strikers, obviously, but slow the game up when United are breaking. Bringing Welbeck and/or Hernandez in that area would be a good option later on in games.

53 min: Worth noting that Evans has his foot in one of those huge protective boot thingys on the bench. He’s on crutches too. Looked an innocuous injury earlier, but often those are the ones that are the most damaging.

51 min: De Laet has got to be careful. He’s already had a yellow card and tugs Di Maria back, as the Argentinean was striding into the box. Could have easily been a red there, but only a free-kick right on the edge of the box. Wasted by Rooney.

48 min: So close for Falcao! Nearly his first goal for United. Rooney plays a diagonal ball to Falcao, who takes one touch before taking an early shot. Schmeichel was nowhere, completely deceived by how quickly Falcao got his shot off. The ball cannons off the bar!

46 min: Another quick free-kick from Cambiasso, so nearly another opening for Vardy. The lofted pass over United’s defence left them in limbo but it fells just beyond the Leicester striker. One more yard and he would have controlled that and had a one-on-one with De Gea.

Regarding the names talk: ‘Mata means ‘feed’ in Swedish! Good name if you’re playing no 10! Does LVG know?’, emails Nigel Moore.

Nope.

Players are out on the pitch. Let’s go!

‘Slightly tenuous link but ex-United player Jonathan Greening made his debut for Tadcaster Albion FC yesterday in the Northern Counties Eastern League - although he was massively overshadowed by his younger brother Josh who scored a hat trick (and his tenth goal in three games). Highlights here …’

Thanks to David Lindsay for that. We love a tenuous link here, keep ‘em coming.

Half-time entertainment

J.R. in Illinois has been calling The Guardian ‘rude’ for not linking to the Tottenham-West Brom snoozefest. Here’s a match centre, it’s currently 0-0. Apparently Spurs are lucky to be level.

45 min: Another early cross from Di Maria is put into the box, Falcao looks to have stolen a march on Moore, but the Leicester man just puts enough pressure on the Colombian and eases him off the ball. The ball curls wide and out of danger. Those crosses though, wicked curl.

43 min: Vardy is again Leicester’s chief threat. Blackett shows some quickness of his own. I’ve been impressed with the defender this half.

41 min: Corner comes out to Di Maria who drags his shot wide. Clattenburg seems to think there was deflection on that (there wasn’t) and United get another corner. It is fired into the six-yard box and Rojo heads! Surely! No, it’s over, that’s a bad miss.

40 min: One of the best things about Di Maria is that for all his running, and dribbling, he’s also not afraid to put an early cross into the box. If Falcao and Van Persie can time their runs, they’ll catch plenty of defenders unaware. This time Di Maria’s early cross is sliced behind by Morgan. Pressure mounting.

38 min: Vardy is a great outlet for Leicester, he’s got searing pace and manages to outmuscle Smalling to win a throw. Two players that were playing non-league football not long ago.

36 min: United happy to have the possession, Leicester happy to sit deep in numbers. Rojo decides that he’s bored of a patient build-up and takes a pot-shot from 30 yards. Well over.

34 min: Di Maria is the latest to go down. He got a hefty shove off De Laet there. Wasn’t a foul but he took a nasty tumble on the side of the pitch nonetheless. Leicester fans cheer. Sadists...

32 min: De Laet steams inside Rojo on United’s left, but overruns the ball, and upends Blackett who nips in to make the clearance. Booking for De Laet.

30 min: Smalling is welcomed to the game with a hard cross to the gut! Ouch! Slight grimace but he wears it. Leicester have a throw, deep in United territory. It’s a long one from De Laet. Nothing doing, but don’t think it will be the last time we see that long throw.

28 min: Evans is struggling, and collapses on the turf. Seems to be a problem with his right-foot, and he’s going to need to come off. Smalling replaces him, straight swap.

26 min: United win a cheap corner, with the ball breaking to Falcao, who can’t get enough power on the turn. Leicester clear but Blind sets the ball back with interest, volleying from the edge of the box, but it’s straight at Schmeichel.

‘To shoe-in two comments in one,’ writes Mark Judd. ‘Rooney is playing the position that Shinji Kagawa should be occupying, and on great names for Premier League players, Shinji Kagawa translates as ‘Fragrant River’’

That is lovely stuff.

24 min: Ulloa holds up the ball so well. Not the quickest but he really is a combine harvester of centre-forward.

23 min: Nobody seems to know who is marking Di Maria, who is moving off the left flank into more central areas. The Argentinean is pulled back off the ball and United have a promising free-kick, which is wasted.

19 min: Rooney is becoming more and more of an influence here. He clips a diagonal to Van Persie, who volleys first time but the ball goes wide. Turns out Van Persie was offside but very similar to that volley he scored against Aston Villa. Would have been another peach.

Breathless start to this match. A hopeful ball is clipped down the right and Vardy races clear of Rojo and just about beats the ball to the byline, before fizzing a hopeful cross in. Ulloa, who is tightly marked and on the penalty spot, cranes his neck and nods it in the far corner. De Gea didn’t move! Again the pace of the cross made it, but the quality of the header was fanstastic there. Game on!

What. A. Goal. Rooney breaks clear of his markers and plays a ball inside to Di Maria, who runs straight at goal and scoops the ball over a hapless Schmeichel. The vision to see that finish when he was running at pace was sublime. Nice pass from Rooney that too, what did we say about him in the No10 role?

All made by Falcao. Rojo plays a ball to the Colombian down the left, but De Laet gets far too close to Falcao and is rolled. United’s No9 delivers a lovely cross to the back post with his weaker left foot and Van Persie hammers an easy header inside the near post. The pace and accuracy of that cross made it easy, Van Persie didn’t have to break stride.

10 min: Great save from Schmeichel! Doing what his father did so often for United all those years ago, spreading himself at the feet on an attacker: this time is Van Persie, who broke the offside trap and collected a lovely slide-rule pass from Di Maria.

8 min: Nugent is playing more central is sticking to Blind like white on rice. As a result, the Dutchman has barely had a kick so far.

6 min: It’s all Leicester! They counter attack, three simple passes finishing with a Ulloa mis-control inside the box. Very disappointing that, an excellent position, but Evans was able to pounce on the loose ball and clear.

4 min: Handball in the middle of the field, and Cambiasso takes a quick free-kick to release Nugent who is completely free down the right. He has time to get his head up and float a cross for Ulloa, but it is well defended by Da Silva, who heads behind. Cambiasso at the heart of everything here, his mind remains very quick under that bald noggin.

3 min: A poor header from Rooney is left short and Blackett clatters into Vardy as he tries to reach the ball. United will want to limit the free-kicks into the box, Leicester are a big side. Cambiasso takes but it missed everyone.

1 min: Ulloa already making himself a menace up front, slide tackling into Danny Blind. Leicester fans are making one hell of a racket. Great atmosphere here.

Peeep peeep! We’re off!

We’re nearly ready. Belt up folks!

Michael Hood on the email.

‘In the pre-match report over here in the US, they are twittering on about the mystery of LvG’s seeming disdain towards Luke Shaw. A mystery unless he actually really isn’t any good.’

Hmm. Overpriced? Yes. Not fit enough? Maybe. But he’s good.

Bernard Walsh isn’t so sure.

‘Not sure that Shaw’s omission from United’s starting line-up is particularly surprising. I don’t think Van Gaal rates him and feels Blackett is a better prospect. What were Woodward & co thinking shelling out £28m for a teenage full back? Did they think Shaw was Bale Mark II or something?’

Disappointed to see Mahrez on the bench for Leicester. He’s a real talent. It looks like they’ll be playing a 4-5-1/4-3-3 depending on how you look at it. Vardy and Nugent playing wide of Ulloa.

‘Rooney as a ten, instead of Mata’, writes Ethan Dean-Richards. ‘Why? Why?! When was the last time he orchestrated a great passing performance (like Van Gaal is trying to create) from that position? Or even, when was the last time a team played well with him in there? All I get in my head is the difference between England when Sterling’s played there (v Italy and Switzerland) and when Rooney’s played there (v Uruguay and Norway). United were ace last week with Mata; will they be similarly ace with Rooney this week? I just think, probably not.’

I was impressed with Mata last week against QPR, and surprised to see him benched. Mata doesn’t have the defensive discipline to play further back in midfield – it doesn’t look like he is the first-choice No10 when all United players are fit. I think it’s unfair to cherry-pick two games in which Rooney didn’t play well in that position, he’s a threat in there, as long as he doesn’t drop too deep with the ball.

If you’re looking for a little bit of pre-match reading, get stuck into Stuart James’s interview with Leicester’s Paul Konchesky, who starts at left-back today.

‘You get in the dressing-room and everyone’s speaking Spanish! English is getting pushed aside a bit,’ says Rooney in a interview with Geoff Shreeves.

Maybe he should take a leaf out of John Terry/James Milner’s book – both are said to be learning what is fast becoming the local Spanish lingo.

Here’s a nice Rooney stat for you – nobody else has scored more Premier League goals on a Sunday.

Here’s some updated 2014 teams.

Leicester: Schmeichel, De Laet, Morgan, Moore, Konchesky,
Cambiasso, Nugent, Drinkwater, Hammond, Vardy, Ulloa. Subs:
James, King, Hamer, Schlupp, Mahrez, Wasilewski, Wood.

Cambiasso starts!

Man Utd: De Gea, Da Silva, Evans, Blackett, Rojo, Blind,
Ander Herrera, Di Maria, Rooney, Falcao, Van Persie. Subs: Shaw,
Mata, Januzaj, Smalling, Lindegaard, Fletcher, Valencia.

Falcao starts! Shaw is on the bench, again! Looks like it will be a midfield diamond, with Rooney dropping into that No10 role, instead of Mata.

LVG in the pre-match interview: “I was not so satisfied last week as Rooney as a striker, or Mata as a midfielder, so that’s why I’ve made the change.”

Man trying to keep a lid on things: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)

It is over 10 years since the two sides last met, back in the good ol’ days when every single team in the world started the match 4-4-2. Quite the team from United, I’m sure you’ll agree. A young Cristiano Ronaldo took his place on the left side of midfield and United sneaked a 1-0 win, courtesy of a rare GNev goal.
Leicester would go on to get relegated from the Premier League that season, and of course only made their return this summer.

Man Utd:

Carroll

Gary Neville Brown O’Shea Silvestre

Bellion (Djemba-Djemba 83) Butt Scholes Ronaldo

Forlan (Fletcher 57), Saha

Leicester:

Bent Dickov (Guppy 77)

Stewart (Scowcroft 66) Izzet Freund (Gillespie 66) McKinlay

Thatcher Dabizas Heath, Scimeca

Walker

Muzzy Izzet was a fine player and for my money has one of the best names ever to grace the Premier League. Eric Djemba-Djemba wasn’t bad either, come to think of it. Do get in touch with your favourites, if ya fancy.