Harry Maguire says Manchester United must fix ‘not good enough’ home form

Harry Maguire says Manchester United must turn Old Trafford into a fortress and rediscover confidence that has been dented by this season’s woeful form.

Last weekend’s 2-0 defeat to Crystal Palace was the Red Devils’ seventh Premier League loss on home soil of a campaign to forget and threatened to be compounded by lowly Leicester in the FA Cup.

United were booed off at half-time of Friday’s FA Cup fourth round tie, with a lifeless display by Ruben Amorim’s men punished when Bobby De Cordova-Reid scored just before the break.

The hosts bounced back to secure a 2-1 win through substitute Joshua Zirkzee and Maguire’s controversial offside header at the death, but the latter knows vast improvements are necessary.

“No TV today!” the England defender said with a smile when asked whether Amorim had punched a dressing room television in anger as he reportedly did after last month’s 3-1 home defeat to Brighton.

“No, he was calm (at half-time). He was speaking tactics and he said we need to get the next goal and we’ll go on to win the game and he was proven right.

“He had the belief we could change the tempo of the game and we did change the tempo of the game. He brought Garns [Alejandro Garnacho] on, who added a lot more pace to our attack.

“Obviously we can’t be starting games like that at Old Trafford.

“I think the run of results at Old Trafford has been so poor that I think now the boys have lost maybe that confidence of playing in front of a crowd and things.

“It’s something we need to address because if we want to be a successful team we’ve got to make it hard for teams to come here and play and the first half wasn’t good.”

United head to Tottenham and Everton before their next home match against Ipswich on February 26 and