{"id":356977,"date":"2026-03-21T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:42:12","slug":"uniteds-maguire-sees-red-in-lively-draw-with-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356977\/","title":{"rendered":"United&#8217;s Maguire sees red in lively draw with Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Maguire&#8217;s England recall was tempered by a costly red card as Manchester United\u2019s quest for Champions League qualification suffered a setback following a dramatic 2-2 Premier League draw at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>United defender Maguire, who began Friday celebrating a return from the international wilderness, was dismissed for a foul on Evanilson, allowing Cherries substitute Junior Kroupi to equalise with an 81st-minute penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were twice on course to move within four points of second-placed Manchester City after Bruno Fernandes opened the scoring from the spot and a James Hill own goal restored the advantage following Ryan Christie\u2019s initial leveller.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester United striker Matheus Cunha is fouled in the penalty area, with team-mate Bruno Fernandes subsequently scoring from the spot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0024178c-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMatheus Cunha is fouled in the penalty area, with United team-mate Bruno Fernandes subsequently scoring from the spot<\/p>\n<p>But United will instead be looking over their shoulders at the chasing pack of Aston Villa, Liverpool and Chelsea after dropping points for only the third time in 10 top-flight fixtures under head coach Michael Carrick.<\/p>\n<p>In an action-packed second half, the away side felt aggrieved not to be awarded a second penalty following a potential foul by Adrien Truffert on Amad Diallo, immediately before Christie equalised.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth remain 10th in the table after stretching their unbeaten run to 11 games with a fifth-consecutive draw and 15th of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Maguire&#8217;s England recall was tempered by a costly red card as Manchester United\u2019s quest for Champions League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-356977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}