"I don’t think either of us played that well, but I just thought that I wasn’t going to win that with the way things were going.
After beating Ali Carter in the semi-final, he admitted he could struggle to keep his emotions in check if the final against Selby begins to slip away from him.
But, before he played his shot, Maguire banged the top of the table as he rued his bad effort.
"In hindsight Mark has probably played better than me all week, I’ve been scraping my way through just winning matches somehow.
On Fire was losing the frame 30-24, when he played a poor positional shot that left him in a sticky situation.
