Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was delighted with the character shown for victory at Leicester City.

Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the game after nine minutes, but the Reds had to defend in numbers during the second half with the Foxes producing a number of key chances which David De Gea had to clear away.

Solskjaer said, "We know we can play better, but you can't play fantasy football every time and today we could have controlled the game more but when we didn't we fought for the next ball, we fought for our mates next to us, we put our heads on the line, we put our bodies on the line and it was a great defensive performance from inside the box I have to say.

"As I said we put our bodies on the line, there were a couple of bruised noses and knees, and dead legs. They fought for their three points today. I think we deserved it in that respect. In the second half when we could have controlled it more, we could have slowed it down. But we defended really well. Eric and Victor were fantastic and David again of course."

"If you have the foundation of a clean sheet you'll always be in with a chance to win a game and we've got a keeper that saves us, we've got a back four that sacrifices everything in the box, a couple of midfielders who made a couple of great blocks, that was absolutely amazing to watch and the attitude has been spot on ever since I came."