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2024-25 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
22
Clean sheets
6
Goals
1
Assists
0
Yellow cards
7
Really bad mistake by him, but because Dalot was the rcb amd has never played there before(?) there was no cover for his error. DeLigt or Yoro next to him probably would have been tighter to the striker. Good finish too
 
People want him sold, however, our current defense is much better with him in the center of it. We need upgrading first, before moving him out.
 
I can guarantee those who are calling that as a mistake would be shouting the ref fcked us over for that goal if it was any other player in place of Maguire (any other than maybe Rashford and Antony, and to a degree Bruno).
 
Oscar Bonavena said:
By rights, neither of them were fouls. The Rangers player was clever enough to dive though.
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I agree that neither were fouls. But, in the context of this game, it was established -and verified by VAR - that that sort of incident was a foul.

If the ref had given a foul for that sort of thing on the half way line, you could chalk it up to a mistake. But the fact that he gave a foul in an incident which was checked and approved by VAR means that the officials set the precedent of it being a foul.
 
Amarsdd said:
I can guarantee those who are calling that as a mistake would be shouting the ref fcked us over for that goal if it was any other player in place of Maguire (any other than maybe Rashford and Antony, and to a degree Bruno).
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Nah, the first real mistake it's to make his rival onside. That's the main issue and Harry sometimes gets distracted with that stuff and struggles to command in such tasks.

Later he does not positioned himself properly, while being a giant. He even lost sight of his rival, looking too much for a very long and high ball. The hassle doesn't merit any foul at all (nor the one that was called against United) and he was extremely distracted watching the ball, players with top control just need a glance and focus on keeping his rival on check.
It was a bad play from Harry, full stop, shyte happens. And he is a player that gets a bit uncomfortable in this type of plays, the prior game he had to control also a high ball, he "control it" with his chest and later send it to the stands, without any sort of pression from the rival. He tends to get nervous in these situations, so when he let the rival onside, he shouldn't have forget about him.

All in all, it's just a play, players make mistakes, he sould not be burn, no player should be burn, mistakes happen and the offside wasn't properly done because the team needs more work, if that worked, there would not be even need to control such ball.

Also, the forward made a FANTASTIC control and great finish, he has a lot of merit too, he didn't give anyone time to even bother him once he grabbed it, great goal by him, he has a lot of merit.
 
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Amarsdd said:
I can guarantee those who are calling that as a mistake would be shouting the ref fcked us over for that goal if it was any other player in place of Maguire (any other than maybe Rashford and Antony, and to a degree Bruno).
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Not me. It was piss weak no matter which player it was, but it many ways it's worse with Maguire because his strengths are supposed to be his physical strength and heading ability. Yet he was so easily played. Never seen that happen to Van Dijk, or Kompany, or Terry.... what, did they not ever get nudges from centre forwards?

This is part of the problem where this club is at, our fanbase constantly making excuses for shit play. I was arguing with someone on this forum who was saying Onana letting a shot in right in the middle of the goal v Forest was not his fault because the ball "swerved"!

Are we not just capable of saying about a player, "that was shit"?!
 
Oscar Bonavena said:
Not me. It was piss weak no matter which player it was, but it many ways it's worse with Maguire because his strengths are supposed to be his physical strength and heading ability. Yet he was so easily played. Never seen that happen to Van Dijk, or Kompany, or Terry.... what, did they not ever get nudges from centre forwards?

This is part of the problem where this club is at, our fanbase constantly making excuses for shit play. I was arguing with someone on this forum who was saying Onana letting a shot in right in the middle of the goal v Forest was not his fault because the ball "swerved"!

Are we not just capable of saying about a player, "that was shit"?!
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Martinelli got Van Dijk with a good one last year, the other two though I don't think would allow it. Different types of CB. though I agree the frustrating thing is Maguire should be in that Terry, Kompany, Vidic type category for aerial balls but he's not.

His reaction is what annoyed me most, immediate resignation even knowing he'd been very mildly fouled. Where's the anger we saw at the Havertz dive? We need angry slab or no slab.
 
It's the kind of mistakes that shouldn't of even mattered because we should of been 2 or 3 up at that point anyway. Still poor mistake, he is a player that definitely has a whoopsie or two in him.

But he definitely made a difference to our play last night with his passing fizzed a couple of quality passes through the lines into the feet of the attackers also played a couple of those diags out to wing he likes to play. Started a couple of dangerous attacks from the back and got us up the pitch. Something we really weren't doing in the first half.
 
There's no doubt that Harry dropped a loaf on the Rangers goal but he's settled in nicely in our back three.
 
Oscar Bonavena said:
Not me. It was piss weak no matter which player it was, but it many ways it's worse with Maguire because his strengths are supposed to be his physical strength and heading ability. Yet he was so easily played. Never seen that happen to Van Dijk, or Kompany, or Terry.... what, did they not ever get nudges from centre forwards?

This is part of the problem where this club is at, our fanbase constantly making excuses for shit play. I was arguing with someone on this forum who was saying Onana letting a shot in right in the middle of the goal v Forest was not his fault because the ball "swerved"!

Are we not just capable of saying about a player, "that was shit"?!
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It happened to them and even better players, let's not get over the top.
Yet Harry has a tendency for the silly mistake with or without pression
 
Oldyella said:
Do we though? Take him out and as soon as one of De ligt , Yoro or Martinez get injured and we are scraping the barrel.
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Normally excellent last ditch/deep lying defender but poor up the pitch. Fair play for all the mental resilience he has displayed.

When was the last time he scored an important goal for Utd? Chance against Liverpool as well as last night both missed.

Unlike Robertson, who also made the step up via Hull, Maguire has only ever briefly looked the part. Pundits and media delight in mentioning Anthony’s fee whenever he is discussed meanwhile this seems to have been conveniently removed from the debate about Harry.
 
Kostov said:
That was shambolic for the goal. He's better than that but sometimes crumbles into the shitness around him.
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Harry, for such a high profile player, tends to fall in some shyte without any sort of help since day one. This play falls into that cathegory.
 
Fobal said:
Harry, for such a high profile player, tends to fall in some shyte without any sort of help since day one. This play falls into that cathegory.
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Yeah, maybe. But we know by now he isn't Elias Figueroa reborn, don't we? And we all agree that he was overpriced and is overpaid.

It's all too predictable that a segment on the Caf (not you personally, to be clear) have been salivating at the mouth for weeks to pipe up yet again that he's a liability/shite/not worth the transfer fee, etc.

It's laughable, to be honest, in context (the context being that we are shite, have a squad riddled with shite players). Maguire is very far from being the first player I would get rid of based on his actual ability.
 
Kostov said:
I agree, but from the top of my head it usually when it's dire and he goes and adds some cherry on top.
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To be fair, when things are dire, more shyte it's the usual shyte, from anyone, anywhere on any team in the history of the game going throught a bad period.

PD: this doesn't take away that I'll never understood why he was chosen to be the player to build a defense around since day one, he doesn't look like the sort of player to do that and that it's not his fault. Nor is his fault that United have chosen some profiles on every line to build around that are not quite in the style United had before in its more succesfull periods and that it's sthg. that has been happenning since time, even in Fergie's time.
This creates a pretty ill atmosphere regarding so many of the current players even in an internet forum, no matter if some of them had tried their best to be their best and conversations have become so black and white and quite toxic.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I agree that neither were fouls. But, in the context of this game, it was established -and verified by VAR - that that sort of incident was a foul.

If the ref had given a foul for that sort of thing on the half way line, you could chalk it up to a mistake. But the fact that he gave a foul in an incident which was checked and approved by VAR means that the officials set the precedent of it being a foul.
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But you know, and I know, and a experienced professional footballer like Harry Maguire should know, that the ref or VAR isn't going to intervene unless you make a big song & dance of getting "fouled". Like the Rangers guy did for the disallowed goal. Or like what Dalot did for the disallowed Brighton goal last week.

And that ref last night probably would have given him a free kick on the pitch if he had done that.

I respect the fact that he's an honest and stoic player, but if he wants decisions like that, he needs to make it obvious he was fouled.

Is it right he should have to do that? No. But unfortunately it's professional football.
 
Amarsdd said:
I can guarantee those who are calling that as a mistake would be shouting the ref fcked us over for that goal if it was any other player in place of Maguire (any other than maybe Rashford and Antony, and to a degree Bruno).
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Nah its just an awful bit of defending. He's been pretty good. Arguably our best defender when picked this season (not sure "arguably" even applies), but that was a balls up, and then he got punished by a first touch you will probably never see again from someone playing for Rangers.

One mistake isn't the be all and end all. Don't see how it can be pinned on the ref, other than because he invented a foul earlier in the game
 
I'm more annoyed that Dalot didn't anticipate. As a defender, you shouldn't assume anything, especially when you're that close to the action, and it's close to the goal line. Hopefully someone knock that into his head.
 
Devil77 said:
Sure he messed up for their goal. But it has to be said that the push he got was on par with the one that ruled out De Ligt’s goal. Also a bit sad to see that all Maguire haters who’ve been lurking in the dark for a few months are back again.
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I have mixed feelings with him. Before that ‘error’ I thought he was great. Some of his passing was excellent into the forwards. I agree with another poster though, in that he is prone to the odd calamity. Sometimes it doesn’t even seem to be a direct mistake, but they do seem to follow him around.
 
Hopefully he will just have a boring game today. Lifted offside last Premier League game and made a big mistake against Rangers. Just a boring game without any kind of mistakes please.
 
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I appreciated him just heading it the feck out instead of leaving it to Onana, because God knows how that could turn out
 
Superunknown said:
I was literally coming in here to say the exact same thing. Good leadership decision, I thought.
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That ball is for the keeper, yet Onana rarely imposes himself in hsi area and clearly didn't call it, his defenders do not trust him, but could have end badly if they crash with each other.
 
Fobal said:
That ball is for the keeper, yet Onana rarely imposes himself in hsi area and clearly didn't call it, his defenders do not trust him, but could have end badly if they crash with each other.
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Yeah, you ideally want the keeper to come out and get those. Onana seems to be regressing in his general play. I thought his kicking tonight was thoughtless.
 
Superunknown said:
Yeah, you ideally want the keeper to come out and get those. Onana seems to be regressing in his general play. I thought his kicking tonight was thoughtless.
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Onana also has to shout and claim that ball, this is vital in such plays. It didn't look he did it, so if a clash happened, I woudln't say a thing to Harry for such a timid response from the keeper, but United was lucky that didn't end in a blooper.
 
Considering Maguire went through such sh!t on here, from the stands, opposition and social media, he acted with dignity throughout and is now probably first choice CB, I am just in awe of the bloke. It makes me laugh when people who have never been near playing a decent level of football stripe him off incessantly. F**k 'em. Keep going, Harry
 
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