[Utd heap]

It’s a wet day, Salah hit it hard. The ball was dipping and swerving. Sorry but trying to have a go at the keeper for not keeping that out is bonkers.

Defo not a mistake, but saveable.

 

[mctrials23]

Should have saved the penalty. Guy makes too many mistakes. Its as simple as that. Doesn't make that many saves that he shouldn't be making and lets in too many he shouldn't. I don't think you win anything of note with this guy between the sticks.

 

[arnie_ni]

Back to criticising keepers for not saving penalties.

You never criticised ddg for not saving penalties?

 

[arnie_ni]

Defo not a mistake, but saveable.

Would agree with this..don't think any pen could be considered a mistake to be honest

 

[Oranges038]

You never criticised ddg for not saving penalties?

Criticised him for a lot, but I doubt I ever did for penalties.

 

[tomaldinho1]

You never criticised ddg for not saving penalties?

People criticised DDG for his penalty save %, not specific penalties. Onana seems decent with penalties, he's guessing the right way often and then his % of saves is good. There was that stat about how DDG saved 3 penalties in 8 years for us - for whatever reason he just really struggled there for us.

 

[Raoul]

Should have saved the penalty. Guy makes too many mistakes. Its as simple as that. Doesn't make that many saves that he shouldn't be making and lets in too many he shouldn't. I don't think you win anything of note with this guy between the sticks.

Yesterday was one of this best performances in a United shirt imo.

The leg save off the McAllister shot in the first half
Handled the Van Dijk header well
Had the wherewithal to deny Conor Bradley at the near post in the 90th minute.

Each of these could've been goals if mishandled, misjudged etc.

Nearly stopped the pen as well.

A solid all around performance from our keeper

 

[lex talionis]

Should have saved the penalty. Guy makes too many mistakes. Its as simple as that. Doesn't make that many saves that he shouldn't be making and lets in too many he shouldn't. I don't think you win anything of note with this guy between the sticks.

An excessively harsh take. Onana guessed right and appeared to get a glove on the ball but Salah struck it very hard. Not many keepers who have ever lived would have saved that pk.

We'll eventually need to move Onana on to another club as he is prone to too many mistakes, which you are right to point out, but his performance last night -- and as things stand right now this was the performance of the season by the squad -- was nearly flawless.

 

[ole@thewheel]

I don’t understand why we keep getting outmuscled on corners. This isn’t all on Onana, I think he’s doing his part, but we’re not making it any easier for him. The lack of a strong presence on the near post is baffling. It’s like we’ve completely forgotten the basics of defending set pieces.

That kind of presence made such a difference. Yesterday, we saw 2 or 3 dangerous corners, that could have been easily cleared at the near post, one of which Onana barely managed to deflect. It could have been much worse.

This feels like a simple fix. Having someone solid at the near post would stop so many of these issues before they even begin. It’s not complicated—just good, old-fashioned organization. Why we’ve moved away from it is beyond me. I mean, think back to RVP—he was an absolute monster at the near post, clearing corners with ease.

 

[Zlatan 7]

I don’t like him as our keeper at all but I think he did well yesterday and saved what he could.

 

[mctrials23]

An excessively harsh take. Onana guessed right and appeared to get a glove on the ball but Salah struck it very hard. Not many keepers who have ever lived would have saved that pk.

Of course they would. You can hit the ball as hard as you like. Top keepers save that penalty. Onana himself will have been pissed off at letting that past him.

Yesterday was one of this best performances in a United shirt imo.

I'm not questioning his performance overall yesterday. It was more of a comment on his general keeping. He makes too many mistakes. He should have saved the penalty but yes, apart from that he was good.

 

[tenpoless]

Peak De Gea's consistency have put me in a situation where I'm expecting all the savable saves to be saved.... but that's not how it works, does it? peak De Gea was a freak. He saved all the savable and on top of that some of the impossible ones.