In the 31 minutes he was on the field, Harry Maguire had in the region of a dozen touches of the ball. Two of them were fouls and about six others were uncertain pieces of control, one of which appeared to lead to a tweak at the top of his left hamstring. In a poor season for the Manchester United defender, this was probably the worst night of all.
How Maguire must wish he had never taken that brief holiday to Mykonos in August. That trip – and the arrest and conviction for bribery and aggravated assault that followed – looks to have set his season on an inexorable course for disaster that reached a new low with a sending off here at Wembley.