Leicester City defender Harry Maguire has officially completed his switch to Manchester United today (August 5, 2019). The Foxes had accepted United’s offer last week and Maguire has passed his medical and put pen to paper a six year deal at Old Trafford.
Maguire is the second big name defensive signing for United this season (after Aaron Wan Bissaka from Crystal Palace) and will be competing with Chris Smalling and Phil Jones for a spot in the XI.
It was always going to be a tough ask first up, and Leicester City, as many might have predicted after seeing the H2H record between the two teams, went down 2-1 at Old Trafford on the opening night of the Premier League season.
Leicester City’s starting XI in a 4-4-1-1 formation- Schmeichel; Amartey, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell; Ricardo, Ndidi, Adrien Silva, Demarai Gray, James Maddison, Iheanacho
The Foxes got off to the worst possible start when referee Andre Marriner ruled that Amartey had handled the ball in the box. Up stepped Paul Pogba to make it 1-0 from the spot for United.
After surviving an initial barrage, Leicester actually grew into the game, with Ben Chilwell and Demarai Gray getting plenty of space to run into on the left flank. United’s right side defence left plenty of gaps, with the likes of Darmian, Fred and Mata found wanting defensively at times.
It was eventually United who struck the killer blow- Luke Shaw’s first senior goal made it 2-0 to the Red Devils seven minutes from time. Leicester pulled one back through substitute Jamie Vardy, who headed in after David de Gea had allowed the initial cross to rebound back off the post.
Man Utd 2 (Pogba pen, Shaw) beat Leicester 1 (Vardy)
