Make no mistake. For 45 minutes, Harry Maguire no longer looked a player suffering a crisis of confidence, but instead one in the midst of a full-blown one.
Erik ten Hag said all the right things in the build-up to Manchester United ’s clash with Nottingham Forest, but without Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez he had little choice but to do anything else.
“I have four really good centre halves, now it is up to them,” he said about starting his club captain alongside Victor Lindelof. But it took less than 200 seconds for the evidence to stack up to the contrary.
