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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

André Onana and the importance of a team over the individual

André Onana and Fernando Muslera after a chaotic 3-3 draw.
André Onana and Fernando Muslera after a chaotic 3-3 draw. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters

OH-NANA!

In the full edition of yesterday’s Football Daily, the world’s most tea-timely football email flagged up a piece that had just been published on Big Website. A well-crafted paean of praise for André Onana, it detailed how Manchester United’s goalkeeper had finally rediscovered his mojo after an extremely jittery and gaffe-prone start to his career at Old Trafford. In this carefully considered piece, the author made the not entirely ridiculous point that, after keeping clean sheets against Luton and Everton, United have “finally stemmed the flow [of goals] at the back”, in a state of affairs that was due in no small part to “Onana starting to prove his worth”.

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