Harry Maguire: from up for sale two summers ago to redemption completed via a 93rd-minute nodded winner. If the defender was clearly offside when meeting Bruno Fernandes’s spiralling free-kick from the left he certainly did not care as here was his own tale of FA Cup romance.
Before the rush of Maguire’s intervention, Joshua Zirkzee’s 67th-minute equaliser appeared the lifeline United needed to keep a shaky FA Cup defence alive.
Written by Jamie Jackson at Old Trafford
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/07/manchester-united-leicester-fa-cup-fourth-round-match-report under the title “Harry Maguire is the hero as Manchester United squeeze past Leicester in FA Cup”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
