A day will come when Harry Maguire’s circumstances begin to improve.

But it doesn’t seem likely that will happen anytime soon.

The cloud that is constantly following the troubled center-half around is just growing at this moment.

22 minutes after coming on as a halftime substitute, he scored his own goal, giving the opposing supporters further reasons to criticize Gareth Southgate for using him.

The defender for Manchester United must believe he is cursed.

Even if it might be claimed that some of it was his own fault due to financial squabbling, he was unsuccessful in getting the move to West Ham he desired in the summer.

The only time he substituted for United, against Arsenal, everything went wrong, and they lost 3-1 in overtime.

And finally, as the backlash against his selection grew, he was able to direct Andy Robertson’s cross into his own goal.

He performed admirably against Ukraine on Saturday in a 1-1 tie, but his error here, in which he stuck out a lazy leg, suggested that he was a rusty player. There must be a change.

However, given that he continues to be a part of Southgate’s first-XI plans for England, the situation there is quite concerning.

Although he would deny it, the manager will be very worried about the scenario involving a player who has been so helpful to him. Apart from that, Southgate will have been pleased with this respectable victory.Southgate is aware that a sizable portion of England fans are still prepared to turn against him despite his squad sleepwalking their way to Euro 2024. On the heels of the Ukraine game, a poor performance in Glasgow would have brought a wave of criticism back his way. He will also continue to draw criticism for substituting Maguire for Marc Guehi at halftime.In a wise move, Southgate started Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, and Declan Rice at the start of the game.He was rewarded with a powerful, thunderous performance that undoubtedly calmed the residents here in Mount Florida, but Maguire’s own goal temporarily raised the volume. There are several generational talents in England. This was evidence that the national team does not possess the depth that many people would have you think. Jordan Henderson’s participation in Saudi Arabia as well as Maguire’s disastrous season are both issues. The issue is that the middle of defense and central midfield are two places that are quite weak.After making a brief outing as a substitute for Manchester City against Fulham in the 84th minute ten days prior, Kalvin Phillips made only his second appearance of the year. After a successful two-game trial this summer, Southgate was still miffed that Trent Alexander-Arnold wasn’t available to evaluate his midfield alternatives. Other injuries were those to John Stones, Luke Shaw, Jack Grealish, and Mason Mount, which made the substitutes’ bench appear a little undermanned.James Ward-Prowse and Raheem Sterling would have been irately watching television at home. And the fact that Lewis Dunk and Guehi combined for just six caps before the game showed how inexperienced the central defense was. In only his fourth appearance for his country, Aaron Ramsdale had little opportunity of scoring an own goal. The same is true for strikers as England does not have a very great lineup of keepers. If anything happens to Kane, who scored a beautiful goal to put Scotland out of the game, we are screwed.Given that he will play against Bayer Leverkusen on Friday, Bayern Munich presumably won’t have been overly impressed that he played 84 minutes. So, even though Southgate had several advantages, Maguire was a significant drawback. As usual, England supporters proceeded to chant his name. However, the pressure he was under was evident from the mocking applause the Tartan Army gave him every time he touched the ball.A further issue is that improvement is unlikely to occur anytime soon.