“Be careful and stop giving the damn ball away!”Harry Maguire yelled at Aaron Wan-Bissaka in the middle of Manchester United-West Ham. The Red Devils They took all three points thanks to an own goal by Craig Dawson after a corner kick by Bruno Fernandes, but it was not easy. The Hammers confirmed why they are the big surprise of the season and they put Solskjaer's men on the ropes at Old Trafford. The central could not contain himself and he was heard charging at his partner.
The winger lost eleven balls and missed nine passes of the 90 he tried, an amount that, although not too high, the Mancunian captain did not like too much, since some of it was a compromised ball and it made him explode. Solskjaer spoke after the game about the alteration in the dressing room at half-time, acknowledging that the spirits were quite upset: “The first 15 minutes we do not stop giving the ball away all the time. You don't build the pressure or the momentum in this way. Everything revolves around lowering the fumes and gaining composure. Then the chances will appear and you convert them. We didn't get it, but we had a set piece and we scored. “
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It is not the first time that Maguire explodes on the field of play. The 28-year-old defender had a similar run-in with Marcus Rashford last month. In the meeting between United and Crystal Palace, the former Leicester accused the forward for falling offside while trying to hit a header. “What do you want me to do?” Rashford asked. “Go back to your damn place!” His captain replied. “Shut the fuck up”, sentenced the ram to settle the exchange of blows.
United, despite the difficulties and nerves, managed to attack second place again and confirm themselves as the best of the rest, behind Guardiola's unreachable City and one point ahead of Leicester. Now there are two high-tension games in which Maguire will have to test his nerves, the second leg of the Europa League against Milan and the FA Cup quarter-finals against Leicester. We'll see if sparks fly again …