Manchester United goalkeeper André Onana ruined his team’s Euro season.
André Onana (right) certainly wants to forget about his mega palm of Wednesday. PDO
In Istanbul, it had been pouring all day before the start of the evening’s Champions League match.
The grass of the Ali Sami Yen Stadium was not fully able to absorb the amount of water, but Uefa definitely wanted the match between Galatasaray and Manchester United to be played.
Apparently, the home team had already set a new date for the match, because it was completely asleep for the first 20 minutes.
First the United skipper Bruno Fernandes initially For Alejandro Garnacho the draw, and the Argentinian cannoned the ball into the top corner. At the same time, Garnacho showed that the handsome German shot into Everton’s net on Sunday was no accident.
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Bruno Fernandes aired his 0–2 hit. However, the captain was guilty of two mistakes in the match, from which Hakim Ziyech scored two goals from the free kicks that followed. PDO
Ten minutes later, Fernandes decided to try it himself. The Portuguese’s heavy shot sank into the top corner from 25 meters.
Onana Vacuum
However, United’s cardinal sin this season has been the loss of focus. This time, the goalkeeper fell into it André Onanawho let Hakim Ziyech’s loose cross all too easily behind his back.
Ziyech and Onana are former teammates from the Ajax years, so the Moroccan genius knew where to pull the strings. At the same time, Gala ignited the rain-soaked home crowd into full screams again.
It had time to celebrate the 2-2 equalizer even before Mauro Icardi the drive-through hit was flagged for offside.
Manchester United had to win to maintain even semi-realistic seams for the spring playoffs. Scott McTominay restored the visitors’ two-goal advantage before Onana fell to an even bigger hand than the previous one.
This time, Ziyech didn’t even try to score from the crossbar. However, the Cameroonian basketer vacuumed the ball into the net with his right hand.
A theoretical possibility
Onana’s mistakes became really expensive because Kerem Aktürkoğlu shot United’s dreams down with a 3-3 finish.
The points distribution does not yet mathematically close the chances of the English team, but they now have to beat Bayern Munich in the last round and at the same time hope that København and Galatasaray end up in a draw.
Of course, even that seam will be removed if the Danish club knocks out Bayern, who have already secured the group win, in Wednesday’s late match.