For more than an hour at Old Trafford last night, Manchester United's refusal to sign a striker in the transfer window seemed an act of madness.
They followed the Premier League Leicester City fighters and had not even achieved a goal. Ruben Amorim faced his second defeat at the Old Trafford in the six -day space and the Copa FA holders faced the most unfortunate exits.
Amorim had spoken before this draw in the fourth round about the “risk” of allowing Marcus rashford Exhibition of the first lifeless half.
Then, Amorim sent Alejandro Garnacho to part time and gave life to an unfortunate united team, creating an equalizer for another substitute Joshua Zirkzee.
We headed towards extra time and the perspective of sanctions against the victory of United's shooting in the arsenal in the third round when Harry Maguire, the former Leicester player, headed a dramatic winner in the last three minutes added by referee Michael Salisbury .
Bruno Fernandes pointed to a free kick from the touch line to the edge of the six -yard box and was Maguire, signed by £ 80 million in 2019, to plant a header on the back of the network.
Harry Maguire headed the man attached to the fourth round of the FA Cup with an injury time effort
The united man defender seemed to be in an offside position before remembering the winner
Leicester seemed to have done enough to force extra time before Maguire's late goal
Leicester must be fed up with United's sight. This was his third defeat in Old Trafford this season and his second departure from the Cup after losing here in the Cábao Cup.
For a peculiarity of fate, United met Leicester and Van Nistelrooy as they continued their trophy defense. The first and last games of the Dutchman of his period of four games as the interim manager of United after Erik Ten Hag was fired in October was against Leicester here, eliminating the foxes of the Copa Copao with a 5-2 victory and Overcome them in the Premier League 3-0.
It was not enough to get the work of United Time, or in fact a place in the team of the Constanda de Amorim, the Portuguese coach explaining on the eve of this game that it would not have been correct to promote Van Nistelrooy ahead of his The staff has a bits role.
“I had to concentrate to go on the right wardrobe,” Van Nistelrooy, a Copa FA winner with United in 2004, joked ITV before the start.
His undefeated spell was significantly better than his record of eight losses in 12 games in Leicester. Interpretedly for Amorim, it was also an improvement in his eight losses in 19 games, and entered this game once more needing a victory to raise the spirit after Sunday's reverse against Crystal Palace.
Patrick Dorgu was thrown directly into the action after its movement of £ 29.4 million Lecce, but strangely began to the right after having been signed mainly as a leftist lid.
Noussair Mazraoui replaced Lisandro Martínez on the left side of the three of Amorim after the Argentine suffered a LCA injury against the palace, and Rasmus Hojlund returned to lead the attack after a failed experiment with Kobbie Mainoo like a false Nine.
Dorgu had an encouraging beginning, it must be said, but otherwise a first half that lacks quality was the same old story for United while fired in white in front of the goal and found themselves behind the interval.
Joshua Zirkzee matched from a short distance after Ramus Hojlund saw a blocked effort
Bobby Decordovo-Reid gave Leicester a shock advantage with a header after an onana save
Leicester already threatened in the sixth minute, when James Justin's long ball landed between Harry Maguire and Leny Yoro, who allowed Patson Daka to enter them and Tee Jordan Ayew for a shot directly to Andre Onana.
United assumed the advantage for much of half without every Moth Hermansen really threatening in Leicester's goal. They were quite surprising of ideas and energy.
Dorgu had the opportunity to run to the goal when Luke Thomas judged the Diogo Dalot field pass, but played a pass directly in Caleb Okoli with options in the box.
When Thomas knocked Dorgu, Bruno Fernandes square the free kick for Amad Diallo to try his luck from the edge of the painting, but Ayew was able to block. From the corner, Diallo invited Dorgu to try, but his effort was over.
United had a warning in the 26th minute when Ayew's Great Wholball gave Bobby de Cordova-Reid the opportunity to shoot on the bar from a difficult angle, and the visitors took the lead four minutes before part time.
Dorgu got a heading to the Hermansen clearance field and the ball fell to Manuel Ugarte, who tried and could not protect him from Boubakary's Soumare.
The Khannouss was fed to Bilal and accelerated Yoro before squareing a pass to Wilfred Ndidi inside the box. Leicester's captain's effort was blocked by Onana, but from Cordova-Reid, standing between Dalot and Mazraoui in the six-yard box, reacted faster to settle home.
Amorim sent Alejandro Garnacho to Dorgu in the mid -time and Joshua Zirkzee shortly after to try to save the tie.
Caleb Okoli produced an authorization of the goal line against its own crossbar during the second half
United approached an equalizer in the 65th minute when Ugarte released Garnacho and ran clearly in the box. Wout Faes gave a touch in his shot, the first of United in the target in the whole game, which lifted the ball on Hermansen and towards the goal.
However, Okoli returned just in time and his mixed clearance recovered from the bottom of the bar and in Hermansen's arms.
However, Leicester's postponement was short -lived, since Garnacho helped make the advance three minutes later. Yoro fed on the end of Argentina on the left and moved away from De Cordova-Reid before square. Hojlund's attempt was blocked by Faes and kindly fell to Zirkzee to shoot home.
Garnacho shot at the side network after Dalot's pass had given him a clear view and headed to extra time when Maguare from all people appeared in the 93rd minute.