Manchester United vs. Leicester: Team News, Live Stream, TV Info, Ticket News

Manchester United vs. Leicester City on Sunday sees Old Trafford play host to a May game that could decide the destination of the Premier League title.

That is a familiar scenario—an almost annual occurrence for much of the Premier League’s history. Of course, as everyone paying even the slightest attention to this season knows, the remarkable truth is it is Leicester who could seal the title on Sunday.

Claudio Ranieri is hoping #lcfc can turn their Premier League dream into a reality: https://t.co/Ccj7bwDJ8U #MnuLei pic.twitter.com/GGxQzXlGHR

— Leicester City (@LCFC) April 29, 2016

A win for the Foxes would make them English champions for the first time, ending a story that will, without hyperbole, be one of the most extraordinary in the history of team sports.

Listed as 5,000-1 underdogs when the season started, Claudio Ranieri’s men stand on the cusp of true sporting immortality. If they can pull this off, their story will not be forgotten for a very long time.

Of course, Louis van Gaal and United are looking to delay this particular brush with history. They need the three points, too, for the much more prosaic purposes of ensuring one of Europe’s traditional super powers scrape into next season’s UEFA Champions League.

There is a good deal less romance to be found in that story, but such is the current reality of United’s situation. 

Our preview has all the key info you need ahead of Sunday’s game against Leicester: https://t.co/90OzW8bt3J #mufc pic.twitter.com/N6tqvlPdTN

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) April 29, 2016

The Red Devils are in good form, having won six of their last seven games in all competitions. Leicester are too, of course.

Ranieri, with as much at stake as at any point in his long managerial career, has engineered a run of results that has seen the Foxes unbeaten since 14 February, with a record of played nine, won seven, drawn two. 

Van Gaal was magnanimous ahead of this one, per the Press Association (h/t the Guardian): “I think we have to beat them because we are still in the race for fourth position. We cannot allow that they are the champions this weekend at Old Trafford. I think they shall be the champions a week later. We don’t spoil the party, only postpone it a little bit.”

Ranieri acknowledged the iconic, Hollywood dimensions of this particular story while calling for patience, saying, per Sky Sports’s Stephen Turner: “It is important to finish the …

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