Although Peter Taylor was hoping that the game against Man Utd at Old Trafford would be a springboard to greater things, and help soothe the pain of last weeks defeat against Wycomb, it seems that City underestimated the might of the Premier Leagues champions.

Even though Man Utd were without the services of Beckham, Giggs and Barthez, who injured himself while warming up, City were still under the kosh for almost the entire game but it did look like City would be able to hold out and gain a very memorable point until two late goals, one in injury time, destroyed that idea.

Unfortunately for City it was a stroke of luck that helped United on their way after Solskjaer's shot was deflected and went in off of Dwight Yorke. Royce had no chance with the shot after it's wicked deflection and the game was almost immediately over for City.

To add more insult to injury a second goal was then scored by Silvestre which flew at such pace City 'keeper Simon Royce could only look on as it hit the back of the net.

City did make the occasional break and to be fair the back line did hold out for 88 minutes until the fluke goal took it's toll on City's spirits.

Taylor said afterwards, "I've spoken to the goalkeeper and he said it was going straight at him and then it was deflected off a Man United player so that's a little bit of bad luck," Taylor said.

"For us the players were getting tired because they had worked so hard, which you have to do here.

"For the second goal I think the Frenchman has said he meant to cross it for Dwight so that hurts as well.

"I'm not very happy with the result today, the 2-0, but I'm very happy with their performance because I felt they worked as hard as they possibly could."

Leicester City:
Royce, Rowett, Elliott, Gilchrist, Impey, Lewis, Jones, Eadie, Delaney, Sturridge, Akinbiyi
Subs: Flowers, Guppy, Oakes, Benjamin, Ellison

Manchester United:
Rachubae, P. Neville, Stam, G. Neville, Irwin, Greening, Keane, Butt, Scholes, Sheringham, Solskjaer
Subs: Yorke, Brown, Wilson, Silvestre, Barthez