Survival guide: Harry Maguire, midfield, and other problems Ole Gunnar Solskjær must sort

Assessing key issues facing Manchester United’s manager after he was given at least one more match in charge

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

Change Maguire’s status to droppable

When Harry Maguire is good he is excellent and when bad he can be amateurish in a way the very best centre-halves never are. Think Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk or Manchester City’s Rúben Dias whose errors are collectors’ items and who are yet to be witnessed in farcical defensive mode when it really counts, as Maguire was in his calamitous outing against Liverpool on Sunday.