Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a late header to beat English Champions, Leicester City in the FA Community Shield at Wembley as Jose Mourinho began his reign as Manchester United manager with a trophy.
The Swede had earlier stated before that the shield would be the first trophy he would be bringing home as a United player, and so it proved valuable for the veteran striker. Although, it was Jesse Lingard, the scorer of the winner against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final during the Louis van Gaal era that put United ahead before half-time when he ran 40 yards and beat four men to slot home a remarkable finish pass Kasper Schmeichel .
Just 52 minutes after the resume of the second, Leicester replied when Marouane Fellaini’s dreadful back-pass let Jamie Vardy in to round David de Gea and score after a high pressure from Ahmed Musa.
The Vardy party just lasted for some minutes when summer signing Ibrahimovic, 34, typically had the final word with seven minutes to go, rising to meet Antonio Valencia’s cross and beat Kasper Schmeichel via the post to give United the deserved and first trophy of the season.
Mourinho has even more reason to be cheerful ahead of the start of the new Premier League season next week as United announced before the game that Paul Pogba is set to have a medical before a potential return to Old Trafford for what would be a world record fee.