Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal defended their performance after drawing 1-1 at Leicester City.

Foxes forward Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy's 10-match scoring streak record by netting in his 11th straight Barclays Premier League game as United were denied the chance to go top.

Bastian Schweinsteiger levelled in first-half injury time and Van Gaal insisted he was pleased with United's efforts, explaining they did not train following Wednesday's 0-0 Champions League draw with PSV.

Van Gaal said: "When you see the data against PSV they were the highest data physically of the whole season of Manchester United and nobody knows that. Then we cannot train. We didn't train Thursday and Friday. So I am proud of my players.

"My players are disappointed because we had the feeling we could win. That is difficult to cope with because we could have been first in the league and now we are not.

"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.

"We also gave away another chance and so we could have lost the game in spite of our dominance. When you want to be the champions at the end of the season - and we want that, the players want that, the manager wants that and the fans wants that - then you have to win this kind of game and we didn't do that so I am disappointed.

"We didn't win in such an important game but I have to say we have played against PSV Eindhoven and we gave everything."