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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jamie Jackson at the Groupama Stadium

Onana errors cost Manchester United and let Lyon have the last laugh

Rayan Cherki scores Lyon’s equaliser in injury time after André Onana pushed the ball out.
Rayan Cherki scores Lyon’s equaliser in injury time after André Onana pushed the ball out. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images/Reuters

In a scarcely credible tale of hubris André Onana was Manchester ­United’s culprit, committing two howlers that cast the goalkeeper as a mug and Nemanja Matic as a seer.

In the buildup to this match, Matic branded Onana one of United’s ­poorest-ever keepers when responding to the 29-year-old’s claim that United were better than Lyon. The tit-for-tat closed with Onana’s dig that he had won trophies at United – unlike Matic in his five years at the club – before a nightmarish evening ended with another error, this time for the hosts’ equaliser.

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