Few Leicester City fans would have given their side much hope of beating Manchester United when trailing 3-1 with 33 minutes remaining. How wrong they all were.
The Foxes proved their aptitude for the Premier League and how defensively woeful Louis van Gaal's side are with a stunning fightback.
Robin van Persie and Angel di Maria had the Red Devils in front before Leonardo Ulloa pulled one back, but once Ander Herrera restored United's lead on 57 minutes it looked like there would be only one winner.
Leicester looked dead on their feet but from nowhere they summoned the strength to go for the jugular again.
A dubious decision from referee Mark Clattenburg to award Jamie Vardy a soft penalty after Rafael's challenge, allowed David Nugent to narrow the gap.
And just two minutes later, Leicester's shock summer signing Esteban Cambiasso levelled matters with a fizzing drive after United failed to clear their lines.
Suddenly, Van Gaal's side were running scared and the Foxes sensed blood. Cue Vardy notching a memorable first Premier League goal. Juan Matawas caught dawdling and a swift move later, the Leicester striker slid the ball past David de Gea.
United looked stunned, but any hopes they had of earning a point were put to bed when Tyler Blackett saw red and gave away a penalty for a last ditch challenge on Vardy. Ulloa duly stepped up to make it five Premier League goals in as many games and wrap up an incredible victory.
Earlier on in the game there was no clue such a tremendous end-to-end affair would unfold. Instead a tentative opening was lit up by United’s deadline day signing Radamel Falcao, who put a sensational cross on a sixpence for Van Persie to head the visitors in front on 13 minutes.
Leading the United charge was British record signing Di Maria and he made it 2-0 just three minutes later with a strike of such technical brilliance it left Red Devils fans rubbing their hands with glee.
Picking the ball up in midfield the £60million summer signing darted forward, exchanged passes with Rooney before quickly lifting the ball over Kasper Schmeichel with the outside of his boot.
The KP Stadium sensed things could get ugly for their side with United looking rampant, but in Ulloa they boast a striker who has taken to the Premier League instantly.
Mere moments after his compatriot’s strike for the visitors, the summer signing from Brighton planted a bullet header past De Gea from Vardy’s cross, which arguably may have gone out of play, to get Leicester back in the game.
Falcao was denied a quite brilliant first goal in English football by the frame of the goal after the Colombian had sweetly taken the ball out of the sky and lobbed Schmeichel.
But the third goal for United was coming and it came from Herrera. Signed more for his defensive attributes, the Spaniard got his second goal in as many games, cheekily backheeling Di Maria’s goalbound drive past Schmeichel.
An exhausted Leicester looked out of ideas but Clattenburg’s questionable decision turned the tide back in the host’s favour as Nugent notched from the spot on 62 minutes.
And in keeping with the theme of rapid goals, the Foxes were suddenly level just a minute later when star man Cambiasso made it 3-3.
Far from being content with a brilliant point, Nigel Pearson’s side went for the kill in devastating fashion.
There was a warning sign when Cambiasso’s replacement Andy King fizzed a strike just wide but it went unheeded and on 79 minutes the KP Stadium erupted. Mata got caught out and a two-on-one freed up the brilliant Vardy to tear away and put Leicester in front for the first time.
Rooney could not hide his anger and it only got worse for the visitors when Leicester made sure of the points as they benefited from yet more kamikaze United defending.
With United on the ropes, Leicester refused to stop attacking and it was Blackett, who been afforded barely any respite by the woeful defending going on in front him, that was the fall guy.
The 20-year-old's poor header back saw the centre-back try to atone for his error but only manage to hack down Vardy and that was that. A red card followed and Ulloa slammed the ball home to leave Van Gaal with just one win in five Premier League games and send Leicester up to sixth.
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