[ThanksBoss26]

Not sure why hes said that about us being much better than Lyon. Very very daft to motivate the opposition in such a way. Especially when you yourself play for a shite team.
Just answer your questions and stay humble.
The absolute fecking melt. I see Matic has given it back to him and it’s fully justified.

He’s wrote their team talk for them as they say. I wouldn’t be overly impressed if it was a player who could back it up but even less so when it’s someone who performs as he does on a regular basis.

He’d be right near the front of the queue of players I’d be trying to get out the door come summer.

 

[Shane88]

What benefits are there to Onana's comments? It can only blow up in his and our faces.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

30 hours until Lyon score and celebrate in front of Onana

As predictable as Elanga scoring against us was

 

[Raoul]

Can't see anything wrong with Matic's response. If Schmeichel, VdS, or De Gea said it, it would mean one thing. If Onana said, it would obviously seem a bit odd.

 

[romufc]

What benefits are there to Onana's comments? It can only blow up in his and our faces.

Its Onana.... the comments were pointless and unjustified. Would be different if we are a very good team playing dazzling football but we are losing more games than winning and drawing.

He is out here conceding goals, cant kick the ball to a team mate either.

 

[dubplate warrior]

Which means he comes off like a pompous, over the hill, dick. Didn't Matic win a Euro League with us. If so, shut the feck up about trophies Nemanja. Wasn't Onana saying what any of our players would say, and what probably most of us actually believe, that we are a better side than Lyon?

We're in zero position to say that.

 

[Reditus]

Thanks, Onana

 

[RonaldoVII]

 

[MrBrightside1989]

It's a random world we live in when Onana and Matic are firing shots at each other

 

[KStandBarmyArmy1993]

I mean, he has a point.

We bottled so many winnable semi finals and finals during the time Matic was here.

Whatever you think of the last couple of years, at least they've had enough about them to get us over the line twice to actually win something.

 

[Licha-Vidic]

Onana is a social experiment..

 

[Irwin99]

Onana is a social experiment..

I mean, it's not a bad response but this whole spat was really unnecessary and it probably fires them up more than us because they're a smaller club.

 

[Adisa]

 

[Gabriel Djemba-Bebe]

Meow I'm enjoying this back and forth. Both players making fair points with sly digs. However, Onana trying to pluralise 'a trophy' is amusing.

 

[Fr. Todd Unctious]

Onana is a social experiment..

Bit late now ffs. Use your brain next time Andre

 

[IRELANDUNITED]

Love that from Onana, hope this elevates his game to another level for the remainder of the season.

 

[Raoul]

Its like Mourinho circa 2005 momentarily took over Matic's brain.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Yes it is in response to Onana saying we’re a much better side than Lyon.

Thanks. Sounds like a silly thing to say. Always be respectful to your opposition. Footballer are precious, and this sort of thing fires the opposition up.

 

[Fahad Jawaid]

Onana is a tool, normally you blow up smoke on the arse of every team to make them complacent and destroy them in the match. You don’t make them extra motivated and tell them we are way better than them even if you feel that way.

 

[Licha-Vidic]

I mean, it's not a bad response but this whole spat was really unnecessary and it probably fires them up more than us because they're a smaller club.

Plus a spat between players who played for same club is not very common. They should even talk after game and Matic asks about how Manchester is. But now even pre game handshakes will be fired up

 

[SirMattlives]

Exactly, Onana's comments can only be used as motivation by the opposition, dumb stuff.

 

[Martial'sEmergingSmile]

Just when we thought it was so over.

It's now safe to say: Game's Back

Top tier delusion from Onana, a classic slapdown from Matic & finished off with some devilish cattiness in that tweet.

We need more of this.

 

[diarm]

I feel like at least 75% of the howlers Onana has made have come in Europe as well.

If ever there was a week for him to keep his mouth shut and knuckle down, this was it, considering it is all we have left to play for.

 

[Mmm-Qatarian]

Go off Andre. Hopefully we send Matic to the retirement home where he belongs.

 

[sullydnl]

No idea why Onana would make the initial comments given the obvious risk they could blow back in his face, but the subsequent spat between him and Matic is quite funny.

 

[Mmm-Qatarian]

Fantastic "fans" we have on here, by the way.

Apparently saying "I think we're better than them" about your opponents in a non-disrespectful manner is over the line but hitting back with a personal jab is awesome and hilarious.

Matic can feck off. Hope we humiliate this lot now.

 

[CallyRed]

He makes clangers both on and off the pitch.

 

[Blood Mage]

Matic dishing out some home truths that the top reds in our fanbase don't want to hear. He's right, this club and it's players have to earn the right to be arrogant again.

 

[Eriku]

Love that response

Onana obviously shouldn’t do Fonseca’s team talk for him, but when Matic starts with that kind of language I’m all for Onana lighting him up.

 

[nmm85]

I was thinking that Onana hadn't made any howlers recently and was due one. This isn't going to help that feeling! Let's just hope he proves Matic wrong.

 

[Fr. Todd Unctious]

People backing Onana up

It's absolutlely idiotic espeically from someone who prone to clangers and is overdue one.

 

[Nobby style]

Its like Mourinho circa 2005 momentarily took over Matic's brain.

Such a non event, except Matic being a bit of a drama queen dick, a la Mourinho. Seems more like a celebration for those who have the hate boner for Onana.

 

[duffer]

Apparently saying "I think we're better than them"

"I think we are way better than them" is what got Matic' goat.

Matic came back way over the top though.

 

[Shark]

Matic dishing out some home truths that the top reds in our fanbase don't want to hear. He's right, this club and it's players have to earn the right to be arrogant again.

Even at that, I can't even see Rooney, Ronaldo or VDS making comments like that when we were the best team in England and Europe. There's never really a place for them.

 

[chris123]

Usually you'd expect a player to put in a stormer after a comment like that, but I feel like this all but guarantees an Onana howler at some point.

 

[Raoul]

Such a non event, except Matic being a bit of a drama queen dick, a la Mourinho. Seems more like a celebration for those who have the hate boner for Onana.

So basically a large swath of the United fan base then. Otherwise all of this would've been a non-issue.

 

[Zoo]

Onana is a social experiment..

Good for him it was a bit of a dickhead move from Matic to respond that way to a generic quote from a player.

 

[DJ Jeff]

Good for him it was a bit of a dickhead move from Matic to respond that way to a generic quote from a player.

Yeah I'm no Onana fan but there was no need for Matic to rip into him as a player for what he said. Could have just said United are shit now so they shouldn't be arrogant.

 

[Chairman Steve]

I like how these Onana/Matic exchanges are top stories on both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. Storm in a teacup stuff but feck it.

Apparently that’s a bigger deal than Villa in a Champions League quarter final.

 

[Mmm-Qatarian]

"It’s a very good team," Onana said of Lyon. "We know some of them but I don’t think we have to focus on them. It’s more about us, what we’re going to do. "I think we are better than them, we just have to go there and show who we are. If we go there with a winning mentality and we are focused, stay compact and together and we follow the game plan we will be winning the game.

"Of course, it's not going to be easy, but I think we are way better than them. We all know the importance of this game, we will go there with the winning mentality, it’s not our best season but we still have something to win and we will go for it."

These were Onana's initial comments. Nothing disrespectful about them. Matic was being a touchy cnut for no reason, and I hope we send him to the retirement home over the two legs.