Maguire Reacts To Late Winner! 🤩 | Man Utd v Leicester

Alejandro, you come on at half-time, you make a difference in the game, the side go through to the next round. It's a pretty perfect night for you, wasn't it? Yes, thank you. It's important for us to win a game like a cup game, because we are now in the quarter-finals, so it's important and we want to win the cup. You pick up the Man of the Match trophy too. An individual performance I think you'll be very proud of, but together, the team in the second half felt like they really pushed through it together. Yes, I think the first half was a little bit more quiet, but then the manager brought me in and it changed the game a little bit more in terms of pace and attack. I'm still a little bit upset because I didn't finish last, but we won, so it's important for the team. What did the manager say to you before you came on at half-time? Was it, go out there and play with a bit of freedom, express yourself? Yes, he didn't have to say too much. He just said to me the things I have to do and he knows what I can do, so he said, play how you want to play and just enjoy. How much are you enjoying playing under Ruben Amiri? Yes, I think he's a great guy. He likes to play like real football, so we have to work all together and we will be a better team in the future. Brilliant performance tonight, well done. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you very much. Ruben, sometimes performances are better than results and sometimes results are better than performances. Which one was tonight, do you think? It's always tough for a coach when the performance is not good, but the best thing is to win because tomorrow what matters is the result. So we have to improve in a lot of things. It's so much easier to improve when we win games. The side felt a little better balanced, I don't know whether that's the right word, in the second half after you made the changes to the personnel and to the system. What did you see that made you need to change it? I think the speed of the team, we improved the speed. That has nothing to do with the system or the positions. Of course, we were expecting a different thing from last time. They changed the players, the build-up was different, so we were a little bit lost, especially in the first half, even in the beginning of the second half, to find the right guy to press, but then the players were winning more second balls, giving more energy, more speed, more runs behind and helped us a lot to change the game. Alejandro Garnaccio just seemed to find a little bit more space than anybody else, didn't he? Yes, and you can see it also that the last team was getting tired. Justin was suffering a lot with sometimes Dolo, sometimes Garnaccio, and the change of position took some reference from the opponent. So, that thing changed the game. I think we can push the opponent to the final third and spend more time near the goal. Just finally, there's plenty of learnings in there, isn't there? Every game that you play, the side gets better. Of course, I'm always learning, and then we have the momentum in some games that you feel that you are improving, and then you go to the next game and it's hard for the team to start, even starting the build-up with controlling the game. So, against Crystal Palace, we lost the game, but I think we played so much better than today. So, it's like that. We won. Let's move on. Thumping had a last-minute winner at the Stretford End. Do they get any better than that, Harry? Yes, obviously, it's an amazing feeling to score the last minute at the Stretford End. Something I haven't done in my Manchester United career, so it's something I'm proud of. I'm sure my family and friends are jumping up, cheering. Yes, it's one I'll never forget, really, to score that winner in front of the Stretford End. You seemed to have, I don't want to say turned a corner, but there was so much difficulty for you for such a long period, and you just stayed so professional and got on with it, and you seem to be reaping the rewards. Do you feel like you're in a really good place at the minute? Yes, I feel like I'm in a really good place. I feel like I've been in a good place now for 18 months, two years. There's no doubt I had a difficult spell. I kept my head down. I knew my chance had come, and when the chance came, I needed to be ready and focused to take it. I've been given a lot of opportunities over the last 18 months now, and I've played pretty much every game when I've been available. Now I'm looking forward to just to see where the future goes, and I feel good mentally and physically, but it's not just about me. It's more important to me. It's about the team and winning football matches, and trying to get this club back to where we should be, and at the moment, we're not where we should be, but obviously tonight's a good win to get through to the next round, and we look forward to the next round. We've been hammering a call for leaders not so long back, and it feels very much like you answered the call. Is that a conscientious decision from you, or is it something that you've chosen to do? No, I wouldn't say it's something. It's a choice. I feel like it's natural. Leaders are natural, really. It's not something that should be forced. Obviously, you can develop leadership, but leadership comes from, obviously, experience and confidence. We have numerous leaders in that dressing room, but we all know that this year has not been good enough, especially in the Premier League. There's been some, obviously, good results in the Copa, and some good results in the Europa League as well, so we know that the ability is there and the talent is there, but for sure, we need to improve. I suppose, let's finish on a real positive here. Can you tell us what it's like when you hear the roar from that wall of people behind the goal at the Stretford End, when you hear the ball hit the back of the net? What does that feel like? No, it's an amazing feeling. It's an amazing feeling to walk out every time I do, and put this shirt on, and go into training, and wear this badge, and then go out and play at Old Trafford, and walk out the tunnel that started the game, and just see the fans, and just see the stadium, and just see how good our fans are. I mean, we've had a difficult patch, and they just stay with us. I mean, that first half we performed wasn't good enough at all, but we come out the second half, and you could feel the energy from the crowd. The special fans, the crowd are unbelievable here at Old Trafford, and I think that's why they suck the ball in that net sometimes, and I think they did that tonight. Harry, thank you. Thank you.