Erik ten Hag gets the reaction he wants from Manchester United after what he did when Marcus Rashford scored

Two saves, two goals and two records. When Leicester breached Manchester United's zigzag backline, they encountered the wall of David de Gea. Up the other end, Marcus Rashford shot at Danny Ward as though he was made of plaster.

Rashford has officially tallied his season-best haul of 24 club goals with more than three months of fixtures remaining. Provided he avoids injury, he is poised to become the first United player to break the 30-goal barrier since Robin van Persie 10 seasons ago.

De Gea is now level with Peter Schmeichel on 180 clean sheets, a feat achieved with possibly his most pivotal performance of the season. Both denials of Harvey Barnes and Kelechi Iheanacho are worthy inclusions in his lengthy highlights reel.

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The standards have been restored to such a lofty height at United the manager is angry in celebration. When Rashford put United ahead, Erik ten Hag beckoned Diogo Dalot over for a dressing down before doubtlessly airing harsher words in the dressing room.

Ten Hag decisively hooked Alejandro Garnacho, introduced Jadon Sancho and United played better in the first five minutes of the second half than they had in the entirety of the first. The tone was set by Lisandro Martinez nodding against the crossbar from Luke Shaw's free-kick within three minutes. United were 3-0 up in the 61st minute.

Sancho, deployed as the No.10, was instrumental and scored his second goal in the second week running. United are such a tactically innovative and flexible team now they had Barcelona second-guessing in midweek. Brendan Rodgers appeared to have Ten Hag's number for 25 minutes but was tactically outwitted eventually.

Sancho was identified as a right winger by United and