Premier League: Leicester City 2 Man. United 2

There was to be no early Christmas present for Manchester United fans as despite having numerous opportunities to secure three points, a stoppage time Harry Maguire goal meant the Reds had to settle for a 2-2 draw against 10-man Leicester City at the King Power Stadium.

Jose Mourinho's men dominated the game and should have been out of sight after Juan Mata's brace cancelled out Jamie Vardy's opener and when Daniel Amartey was shown red late on for two fouls in quick succession the game looked won, but Maguire popped up at the back post to secure an unlikely point for the hosts with virtually the last kick of the game.

United did not get back to Manchester until 5am on Thursday after transport trouble in Bristol, but the Reds were far from sluggish out of the blocks as Chris Smalling headed over an early United corner and Jesse Lingard had a deflected effort tipped over by Kasper Schmeichel.

Paul Pogba then tried his luck from 25 yards, but Schmeichel saved comfortably before a direct run from Anthony Martial allowed space for Mata to fire over.

At the other end, Leicester finally had a sustained period of possession 25 minutes in which resulted in Riyad Mahrez firing straight at David De Gea, before the hosts hit United with a trademark counter-attack. The Reds lost the ball to Wilfred Ndidi high in the Leicester half and he fired a long pass up field which found Smalling isolated against Mahrez. The Algerian patiently waited to feed the arriving Vardy who coolly slotted past De Gea for his 50th Premier League goal.

The goal came completely against the run of play, but thankfully it wasn't long before the Reds drew level. Martial's cross found Lingard and his layoff to Mata allowed the Spaniard the space to expertly stroke the ball into Schmeichel's far corner.

Harry Maguire should have sent the Foxes into the break ahead, but he could not control in the box with just De Gea to beat.

United, in a third successive away match in the space of six days, were nearly caught out early in the second half as Mahrez found Christian Fuchs at the back post, but Victor Lindelof made an expert block on the line before United hit the Foxes with a counter-attack of our own. Jesse Lingard found Romelu Lukaku, who fed Martial, but he blazed over when clean through. Martial was then blocked off on the edge of the box and that man Mata doubled his and United's tally with an inch-perfect, curling free-kick which found the roof of the net.

The Reds should have been out of sight as Lukaku fed Lingard, but when he rounded Schmeichel, the post denied him. Substitute Marcus Rashford, making his 100th United appearance, was fouled by fellow sub Amartey and that meant the Foxes were down to 10 men after the Ghanaian had been booked just four minutes earlier for a trip on Ashley Young.

United should have made them pay as Pogba's inch-perfect pass found Rashford in behind the Foxes defence, but Schmeichel's slight touch on the ball denied Rashford the chance to take it round the son of United great, Peter.

The missed opportunities came back to haunt the Reds as the hobbling Smalling was unable to challenge Maguire who slid home Albrighton's last-minute cross to snatch an unlikely, late draw.

THE LINE-UPS

Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson (Amartey 56) Maguire, Morgan (c), Fuchs, Iborra (Okazaki 66), Ndidi, Mahrez, Albrighton, Gray (Chilwell 80), Vardy.

Subs not used: Hamer, Dragović, King, Slimani, Mahrez.

Booked: Albrighton, Mahrez.

Sent off: Amartey.

United: De Gea; Lindelof, Jones, Smalling, Young; Matic, Pogba (c), Mata (Mkhitaryan 83), Lingard (Herrera 75), Martial (Rashford 69); Lukaku.

Subs not used: Romero, Rojo, Shaw, Ibrahimovic.

Booked: Lindelof, Matic.