Harry Maguire's nine-minute Manchester United cameo made two of his teammates look bad

Manchester United were trailing by a goal against Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Tuesday. The electronic board was raised in the 88th minute and Leny Yoro was replaced.

Harry Maguire came onto the pitch and sprinted straight up front. Ruben Amorim made his last throw of the dice and hoped Maguire could somehow contribute to a dramatic ending.

Maguire almost did exactly that, heading wide after a cross from Patrick Dorgu and having a separate effort cleared off the line. The 32-year-old fell to his knees in disbelief and placed his hands on his head, wondering how he'd been denied an equaliser in the last seconds of added time.

There were six minutes of injury time and Maguire accumulated more expected goals (0.6) in his nine-minute cameo than Rasmus Hojlund has managed in his last 15 appearances for United.

Maguire also had more shots than Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee did during the entire game, so his display from the bench as an auxiliary striker didn't cover his teammates in glory.

Amorim made the surprising decision to move Hojlund to the bench after his goal against Leicester. Hojlund also scored for Denmark against Portugal during the international break and it felt like the 22-year-old could be on the cusp of a goal spurt, but Zirkzee started down the middle.

There is eight months of evidence that says Zirkzee is not a striker and it took just a few minutes for Amorim to regret that decision, as he was forced to wave his arms to encourage Zirkzee into a higher position.

Hojlund came on for the second half and Manuel Ugarte made way. To be fair to Hojlund, he did more than Zirkzee within minutes of coming on, but he still didn't really look like scoring.

Although it was thought everything had already been