Ibra: Mings jumped into my elbow
with the Swede facing a three-match ban. United skipper Wayne Rooney tried to come to Ibrahimovic’s rescue by calling for Mings to be suspended.
He said: “I don’t think the referee saw the stamp but it wasn’t nice and I’m sure it will be looked at. It’s wrong for that sort of thing to happen in football. I am sure there will be punishment for it.”
But Ibrahimovic will also be sweating on ban which will include Monday week’s FA Cup sixth-round trip to Chelsea.
Ibrahimovic attempted to plead his innocence, stating: “What happens on the field stays on the field. I jump up and jump high and he (Mings) jumps into my elbow.”
Craig Shakespeare put himself in pole position for the LEICESTER job on a fulltime basis, recording his second win in six days against HULL to follow on from the triumph against Liverpool last Monday.
He will meet the club’s board this week to discuss his future.
His chances will have been boosted by the victory yesterday which took Leicester to 15th place – and had the crowd at the King Power Stadium singing his name.
Shakespeare said: “I was told the remit was the Liverpool game and then Hull. I have been told now – and I am quite comfortable with it – that we will have a talk towards the end of the week.
“The challenge we asked of the players was to put back-to-back wins together. We showed great character and resilience today to bounce back from going one down.”
CRYSTAL PALACE boss Sam Allardyce was delighted with his team as they also recorded back-to-back wins and secured their first top-flight win at WEST BROM for 44 years.
After last week’s home victory over Middlesbrough, goals from Wilfried Zaha and Andros Townsend moved Palace up to 17th in the table.
Manolo Gabbiadini helped SOUTHAMPTO N to a 4-3 victory at WATFORD.
And Saints Claude Puel cheekily claimed the striker’s goal at Vicarage Road was his seventh in English football rather than his sixth, a reference to the perfectly good effort he had ruled out last weekend in the EFL Cup final.