Bastian Schweinsteiger's opened his account for Manchester United, as his side shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw at the King Power Stadium versus Leicester City, on Saturday evening.

The game also marked a milestone feat, with Jamie Vardy breaking former United hotshot Ruud van Nistelrooy's record of scoring successive goals in Premier League games, moving on to 11 in-a-row.

With United coming into this game having clocked eight plus hours since conceding a league goal from open play, Louis Van Gaal opted for his traditional wing-back system - more associated with last season's side - to counter The Foxes' counter-attacking pace.

Van Gaal brought back Paddy McNair into the starting line-up, deploying Daley Blind as left centre-back, with Ashley Young and Matteo Darmian as wing-backs. 

After last season's extraordinary 5-3 defeat to Leicester at The King Power, last term, the game perhaps unsurprisingly began cagily. The visitors were sitting deep, not allowing their opponents time on the ball and preventing the likes of Vardy and the dangerous Riyadh Mahrez to dictate the play.

Vardy breaks record

There is only so long you can keep Claudio Ranieri's men down right now and so it proved. It was Jamie Vardy's moment. Kasper Schmeichel's quick throw from goal - much like his father - released Christian Fuchs on the right wing, with the German slipping a perfectly weighted pass for Vardy to control and fire past David De Gea, to send The King Power - and indeed the watching football world - into raptures, breaking the all-time scoring record in successive Premier League games.

The goal sucked the energy from United and Leicester kept the ball with ease, pushing for a second before half time. Mahrez again was evading Blind and causing havoc in The Red Devils defence.

Schweinsteiger equalised of stroke of half time 

It was United's relative dominance in possession that told just on half-time, however. A Blind corner was whipped in and Schweinsteiger lost his marker Shinji Okazaki and stooped, to dive in at the far post.

Before that, there was little sign of a leveller, with Anthony Martial off the pace, although Wayne Rooney was dismissing his form of late and looked hungry for the ball and was finding spaces.

United stepped up game in second period

The goal was the perfect platform. Van Gaal's men were visibly lifted by the late first half goal and their body language showed. Again it was Schweinsteiger who forced Schmeichel into a smart stop, with Rooney just failing to get the ball after being held off by Robert Huth.

Rooney came off just short of the 70th minute, with what looked to be a slight foot injury, as Memphis Depay came on looking to pick up where he left off from Watford, last weekend. Leo Ulloa and Jeff Schlupp came on for Leicester, to add more pace and drive and with a spot at the top of the league at stake, would anyone make the decisive contribution? 

Memphis could have snatched points

Indeed, it was again Memphis, who might have snatched the points for United. The Dutchman found space away from Foxes' captain Wes Morgan, but on the turn, blazed over from 10 yards.

Largely, it seemed a case of 'after the Lord Mayor's Show' with neither side too keen to open up the middle of the park. So it was to be as both sides shared the spoils.

For both sides, it's as you were in the table. Leicester stay a point above United, joint-top with Manchester City, after their win versus Southampton. For Louis van Gaal next, West Ham United visit Old Trafford next Saturday.