Daily Times

Ruud van Nistelrooy believes momentum is beginning to change for the better at Manchester United and cannot afford to go off track against Leicester in his final match as interim manager.

Parachuted into the hotseat following Erik ten Hag’s exit, the popular former striker oversaw a 5-2 win against the Foxes as the Red Devils progressed to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. A 1-1 league draw with Chelsea followed before Thursday’s 2-0 Europa League victory against PAOK, with his four-match stint in the Old Trafford hotseat coming to an end on Sunday. Ruben Amorim is taking over as head coach the following day and Van Nistelrooy wants to hand over fresh from securing another victory against Leicester, this time in the Premier League. “It’s a results game in the end and I think the last three results were OK,” said the caretaker boss, who is keen to work under the 39-year-old Portuguese having returned to United in the summer as an assistant.

“We’re through in the Carabao Cup, we’re in the quarter-finals there. “It was a good point against Chelsea where we felt we deserved more, and also an important win in the Europa League to get us settled higher up in that table to go through to the next round in January hopefully.