Manchester United fell further behind Manchester City at the top of the Premier League when defender Harry Maguire scored in the final minute of added time to earn Leicester City a 2-2 draw on Saturday.
They were left 13 points behind their irrepressible neighbours at the halfway stage of the campaign, reports Reuters.
Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez combined for Vardy’s 50th Premier League goal in the 27th minute, the Algerian holding up Wilfred Ndidi’s pass for Vardy to score.
Juan Mata equalised before halftime after Jesse Lingard touched Anthony Martial’s cross to him, then scored with a direct free kick.
Leicester looked doomed when they had substitute Daniel Amartey sent off only 17 minutes after he came on, for two yellow cards in quick succession.
But in the fourth minute of added time England defender Maguire slid in Marc Albrighton’s cross.
United manager Jose Mourinho was left cursing “childish” errors at both ends of the pitch.
“We didn’t win because we missed incredible chances, joke chances,” he said in a post-match interview.
“We made a big defensive accumulation of mistakes in an easy match to win. I told to the players at halftime when it was 1-1 that it was an easy match to win. ”
“Half an hour after our second it is a game to finish four, five, six-one. ”
“We were punished by our mistakes. Childish loss of possession, so easy. Childish in their box and childish in our box.”
