Unfortunately that's the kind of time frame in which goalkeepers are required to make decisions on a regular basis. There can be no complaints about that.
You're being incredibly defensive here; you do realise that de Gea's most ardent critic has been banned from the caf for WUMmery? The people you're left with here, those you're repeatedly accusing of hating de Gea, are mostly those who spent a long time calling Kietotheworld a spastic for his retarded and unfair criticisms. Nevertheless, most of us aren't so stubborn as to blindly ignore a time when de Gea has indeed made a genuine mistake, a trait that cannot be associated with you it would seem.
You're coming across as being a bit paranoid.
We're not talking about a ball slipping through a keeper's hands or between his legs. Or a short throw that goes right back to the forward who's then free on goal. Or being caught off his line and being beaten by a shot from the center circle. Or muffing a cross. Or trying to dribble the ball past a forward and getting stripped. Or handing the ball outside the box. Or running wide of the box for the clearance and leaving your goal unprotected. Those are mistakes.
We're talking about a play in which De Gea was put in an impossible position, right? Right.
THE lesson to be learned is that you don't lob a back pass to your keeper when a forward is rushing the keeper.
The only serious criticism of De Gea on the play is he didn't have his arms in the air at the moment in time he was beaten on the ground, which is a dispute over aesthetics, not substance. I get that. It looks ugly, which leads to criticisms that De Gea "pranced" and "twirled", but such words come across as frivolous rather than serious. I can only imagine the conversation between Fergie and De Gea: "David, you and not to prance and twirl in a 1v1 situation when you've been given a shitty backpass. Got it? Got it, boss, no more prancing and twirling."
I don't think so.
The other options, which are not serious options, are to accept the red card or give up the indirect free kick, which in that particular situation are not viable options. No manager would ever admonish his keeper to take the red card in the second minute against Southampton.
Being beaten, due to a very nifty play by Rodriguez to bring the ball down rather than go with the expected lob (the ball was somewhere between knee and hip high) De Gea made the right decision, in a split second, not to bundle forward and not get sent off.
Disagreement, that De Gea should have risked getting sent off, is fair, but. But i can guarantee you Fergie would never, ever want to see hs keeper get sent off in the second minute against any opponent, even Barcelona. If you're in stoppage time trying to save a lead, then take the forward down. But not in the second minute. No way.