Harry Maguire admits Ruben Amorim was right as he reveals Man Utd half-time message

Manchester United bushed Leicester 2-1 successful the FA Cup 4th circular aft a arguable precocious victor from Harry Maguire and the defender has spoken retired astir the Red Devils' disappointing location form

Harry Maguire has agreed with Ruben Amorim aft the Manchester United brag claimed his players are "more tense playing astatine location than away".

Amorim stated past period that United get "really anxious" erstwhile playing astatine Old Trafford aft a tally of mediocre signifier that saw them suffer 4 of their past 5 location games aft conceding archetypal successful each of them.

And Maguire echoed Amorim's comments aft helium scored a arguable precocious victor arsenic United beat Leicester 2-1 astatine Old Trafford successful the 4th circular of the FA Cup connected Friday. They were forced to travel from down aft Bobby De Cordova-Reid gave the Foxes a first-half lead.

Joshua Zirkzee scored an equaliser for United successful the second-half, earlier Maguire headed location a arguable precocious victor successful added time. However, United were booed by their ain fans astatine half-time aft a show that Roy Keane branded "shocking" and Maguire admitted the Red Devils person mislaid immoderate assurance astatine home.

"We can't beryllium starting games similar that astatine Old Trafford," helium insisted. "The tally of results astatine Old Trafford has been truthful mediocre that I deliberation present the boys person mislaid possibly that small assurance of playing successful beforehand of the crowd.

"It's thing we request to code due to the fact that if we privation to beryllium a palmy squad we've got to marque it hard for teams to travel present and play and the archetypal fractional wasn't good. We've spoken astir [the location form], evidently it's not thing we tin enactment our digit on. Otherwise we'd alteration it.

"I deliberation it's nights similar contiguous erstwhile you grind that triumph retired and it gives you that small spot of content but I deliberation astatine the moment, erstwhile we've conceded the archetypal goal… Have we turned a crippled astir this season? We've got to halt conceding that archetypal goal.

"If you're not playing your free-flowing shot and the performances aren't great, you've conscionable got to support yourself astatine 0-0 for arsenic agelong arsenic you tin due to the fact that you cognize we person endowment successful the squad that tin alteration the momentum of the game. But astatine the moment, whenever we travel nether a tiny spot of unit we concede a extremity and that's not bully enough."

Maguire besides revealed Amorim remained "calm" arsenic helium delivered his squad speech astatine half-time, having antecedently damaged a dressing country television aft United were beaten 3-1 by Brighton past month. "He was calm," Maguire said of Amorim.

"No TV! He was speaking tactics (at half-time) and helium said we request to get the adjacent extremity and we'll spell connected to triumph the crippled and helium was proven right. He had the content we could alteration the tempo of the crippled and we did alteration the tempo of the game, helium brought Garns (Alejandro Garnacho) on, who added a batch much gait to our attack."

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