Bournemouth 2-2 Man United: Harry Maguire goes from hero to zero on the day of his England recall as Cherries frustrate Michael Carrick and Co on the south coast, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI

If anything can typify the undulating career of Harry Maguire , it is that his revival on the international stage could be followed by a game-changing red card within a matter of hours. Poor fella, even in the good times he cannot outrun the drama.

We should explain how that looked and the dramatic effect it had on this match, which is to say that Manchester United led with 77 minutes played and moment later they had 10 men and three points had become one.

His dismissal for a clumsy bodycheck on Evanilson was warranted, and the subsequent penalty from Junior Kroupi decisive, but you would have to be cold of heart to not feel a little for Maguire on the day Thomas Tuchel brought him in from the cold. Or not. If you support Bournemouth or simply enjoy carnage, you won’t care a jot.

In turn, we saw that most familiar of sights - a Bournemouth draw.

This was their fifth in succession and seventh in an unbeaten run of 11, so no victories can be taken for granted when Andoni Iraola brings his boys along for a game.

But United will have felt like two points were left on the south coast. On the balance of a wildly fun game, they would be entitled to think that way, too.

Harry Maguire was handed a straight red card just hours after he was recalled for England

Just minutes earlier too, the defender had been wheeling away in delight after putting Man United ahead

First, they led through a Bruno Fernandes penalty an hour in, serving to add further purple to this patch of appreciation that could soon see him voted the player of the season. And then, having been pegged back by Ryan Christie, they led again through a James Hill own goal. Fernandes had delivered the cross, so at that point we were discussing United’s resilience and their ability to find a way under Michael Carrick.

Alas, it wasn’t to be, because Maguire, even in this most stirring of resurgences, is apparently destined to blend bad times with good. For United, they still have a good grip on third place, but they will also have reason to wonder if it could have been tighter.

Within that, we might add that Carrick didn’t do much wrong. Reflective of form, he had made the call to retain the same side that beat Aston Villa. Logical enough. But there is a temptation to query if, or when, Benjamin Sesko will lose patience with his current duties from the bench – his goal against Villa was his eighth in 10 games and still wasn’t enough for a start.

Such effectiveness always has a place and against Bournemouth it holds more value than most. The tightness of Iraola’s defence has become their defining characteristic since Antoine Semenyo’s departure, and especially of late, but United found openings surprisingly easy to create. Finishing them was another matter.

Across the first half, they were good for 11 chances. Not sitters, or the kind you bury more often than not, but decent opportunities – Amad Diallo drew the first of several saves from Dorde Petrovic inside three minutes and across the next 42, Bruno Fernandes had three cracks, Matheus Cunha a couple, and Diogo Dalot launched one so high it hit the roof of the Steve Fletcher stand.

Pretty as they were in the build-up phases, too often the shortcoming was found in the important bit. The bit that counts. Usually, that meant pot-shots from the fringes of the area, not helped by Bryan Mbeumo’s failure to offer better options with his movement. Marcos Senesi swallowed him whole for large chunks of the first period.

Junior Kroupi is the Premier League's highest scoring teenager by some margin this season

If that was frustrating for Carrick, and Sesko, then the United manager will have been pleased with the wider foundations, with United’s approach typified by Cunha’s engrossing duel with Alex Jimenez – they were aggressive and, dare we think it after the Ruben Amorim months of this season, they were fun to watch.

And yet there were vulnerabilities, particularly on the counter. The early Diallo chance was a case in point – Rayan broke at rapid speed only to botch the finish. That was a warning for what was still to come, but for the time being, it was United’s game.

Their breakthrough came shortly before the hour mark via a penalty, won after Cunha’s umpteenth run at Jimenez. This time, he got past and the Spaniard yanked at his shirt with a correct outcome. Fernandes stuttered his run-up and fooled Petrovic into going the wrong way.

Carrick clenched his fists and did so again when a second penalty was denied, on this occasion when Adrien Truffert pulled down Diallo. It felt like a soft claim and was followed by a hard outcome, because Bournemouth broke at speed and Christie threaded a leveller.

What followed was a final 20 minutes of madness. Most unlike this ground of late. First, Hill headed a Fernandes corner into his own net before Alex Scott hit a post in a retaliation, and then, finally, the kicker of Maguire’s dismissal and Kroupi’s penalty.