Jamie Vardy scores in record 11th straight Premier League game

At the first mistake they can score a goal so you have to concentrate. Kevin De Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Aleksandar Kolarov were on target for the 2012 and 2014 champions while Shane Long replied for Southampton. Wayne Rooney should have done better when well placed, before Schweinsteiger eventually made one count just as the fourth official had signalled for one additional minute.

Jamie Vardy set a new Premier League record of scoring in 11 consecutive matches, before Bastian Schweinsteiger headed home his first United goal from a Daley Blind corner on the stroke of half-time.

Leicester began to push on after their goal and Riyad Mahrez came close with a low drive that went straight at David De Gea before Manchester United stole an equaliser against the run of play.

Nonetheless, the score remained 1-1 at the full-time whistle, as Leicester dropped to second, while United dropped to third spot.

Adam Smith (80) and Junior Stanislas (87) levelled in a dramatic finale before Ross Barkley put Everton back ahead deep into stoppage time, but Stanislas incredibly rescued a point for the Cherries with virtually the last touch of the match in the eighth minute of injury time.

Even more galling for Newcastle fans is the fact that their team has taken the place of northeast rival Sunderland in the relegation zone. Troy Deeney, who was released by Villa as a 15-year-old, scored what proved to be Watford’s victor in the 85th.

“I heard Schweinsteiger say that Vardy was like Klose”, he said.

Kasper Schmeichel claimed a United corner and threw the ball to Christian Fuchs – the Austria full-back charging over the halfway line on a rapid break to release Vardy with a measured pass from the right.

That was the culmination of a half that had centred around Vardy, the former non-league player who has only been in the ranks of full-time professional football for three-and-a-half years.

When asked afterwards what he was shouting when wheeling away in celebration, Vardy said “I can’t repeat it to be honest with you” and then elaborated on what it has been like this week with the pressure on his shoulders.

“It’s just another game that we wanted to try and get three points in”.

“We had a lot of injured players which is not good but that is how it is”, he continued. Jamie Vardy took that questionable sartorial decision yesterday evening.

“I am very disappointed because I had a feeling we could have won this game and we didn’t do that and we gave the goal away”, said Van Gaal.

“If I’d thought about the record too much it would have affected my performance and I didn’t want that”.