Manchester United performance against Leicester City must have irritated and confused Erik ten Hag

Manchester United progressed to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup thanks to a 5-2 win over Leicester City.

Erik ten Hag was sacked following defeat to West Ham in the Premier League at the weekend and Ruud van Nistelrooy has been placed in interim charge until Ruben Amorim's expected appointment.

United advancing in their pursuit of Amorim has dominated headlines, but there was action on the pitch at Old Trafford on Wednesday night and Van Nistelrooy secured a win.

Leicester are among the favourites to be relegated from the Premier League and struggled against United, who were 4-2 up at half-time thanks to an ironically superb finishing display.

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So without further ado, here are the five talking points from the game...

The perfect response

The United supporters who travelled to the soulless London Stadium on Sunday afternoon were scratching their heads at the interval, wondering how their side weren't leading.

Ten Hag paid the price for the players' wastefulness, losing his job just a day later, and he would have been scratching his head watching United's dominant win against Leicester, wondering why his former players couldn't have finished like that when he was facing the axe.

United somehow managed to score five against Leicester when they struggled so badly to find the net, despite creating plenty of chances, in the first half against West Ham.

Nonetheless, it was the perfect response to a turbulent couple of days and there were two confidence-boosting goals for captain Bruno Fernandes, along with a Casemiro brace.

Diogo Dalot provided an assist for Alejandro Garnacho's goal and that will also do a