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Excellent winger? 32-year-old Maguire outspoken + cross-made goals! Teammates praised: Manchester United Yamal

12:06am, 8 May 2025【Football】

In a focus game in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals ending in the early morning of May 2, Manchester United defeated Athletic Bilbao, a La Liga powerhouse, 3-0 away, and advanced to the UEFA Cup final. In this game, 32-year-old Manchester United centreback Maguire performed well. He rarely showed off his cool and made a precise cross, instigating the team's first goal.

At that time, the game was in the 30th minute, and Maguire dribbled the ball to the sideline, facing Biba defender Joregisar. Maguire was actually very agile and changed his direction and kept getting rid of it, and played with Goregisar hard.

Then, Maguire broke away from defense and sent out a precise cross. Ugat headed the ball in the penalty area, and Casemiro, who was ambushing the back point, easily headed the ball. In this way, Manchester United successfully broke the game with Maguire's shining performance away. It can be said that Maguire has made most of the credit for this goal. Surprisingly, Maguire, who seemed bulky, did not expect to have this trick. After the game, Maguire also received collective praise from his teammates. In an interview, he revealed that he was given many new nicknames by his teammates because of his wonderful and crosses this time: "I even called me Yamal, and I feel great about this!"

Old partner Phil Jones did not expect that Maguire had such skills: "I didn't know he had this ability before. To be honest, I have never seen him do this in training. But to be fair, this ball was passed very well."

In fact, in addition to creating the first goal, Maguire also performed very steadily in his job's defensive end in this game. During his 65-minute playing time, he contributed 2 key passes, 3 successful ground-to-ground battles, and 2 key clearances, and scored a good score of 7.1 points.