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Foxes hound United to a 4-2 away defeat

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MANCHESTER United lost 4-2 at Leicester for its first away league defeat in 30 games as Liverpool won 5-0 at Watford on Saturday.

Chelsea remained on top of the Premier League after a hard-fought 1-0 win at Brentford, while Manchester City eased to a 2-0 victory over Burnley.

The top three are separated by two points, but the expected title challenge from United after a summer of heavy investment is not materialis­ing, to increase the pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

United has one point from a possible nine and faces Liverpool, Tottenham and City in its next three league games.

Mason Greenwood’s spectacula­r strike put the visitors in front against the run of play at the King Power, but they were quickly pegged back by Youri Tielemans’ dinked finish beyond David de Gea.

A flurry of four goals in the final 12 minutes then condemned Solskjaer’s men to a first defeat on the road since January 2020.

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