Amorim later clarified that Onana had not been dropped for this game and was also not about to leave the club.<\/p>\n
The United boss said the Cameroon keeper had not been considered because he had missed every pre-season match because of a hamstring injury he sustained at the beginning of last month.<\/p>\n
United did have tentative discussions much earlier in the transfer window about signing World Cup-winning goalkeeper Martinez from Aston Villa.<\/p>\n
That went nowhere. More recently, they have been quick to rule themselves out of a move for PSG’s Champions League-winning goalkeeper Donnarumma.<\/p>\n
In addition, United also decided to loan highly-rated 21-year-old Radek Vitek to Bristol City.<\/p>\n
Internally, United have high hopes for the Czech Republic youth international, whose performance in Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Charlton on Saturday was labelled “world class” by Addicks coach Curtis Fleming.<\/p>\n
However, United clearly feel Vitek is not yet ready to deal with the pressure of being a regular at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
So, if Onana was not available, it left Amorim facing a straight choice between Bayindir and 37-year-old Tom Heaton, who signed a one-year contract extension this summer and says he still has a “drive and desire to play”.<\/p>\n
Amorim was displeased at being asked about his goalkeeper selection during his assessment of Sunday’s loss.<\/p>\n
He took particular exception to a suggestion that Bayindir’s failure to keep out Son Heung-min’s corner in an EFL Cup loss at Tottenham in December, when the keeper was also crowded out in his own six-yard box, was a reason why picking him was a risk.<\/p>\n
“Why?” he responded. “[Son’ goal was] without VAR. With VAR, it’s a foul. <\/p>\n
“And then what happened in the next game? Who saved the penalty? Who saved the game? You don’t remember?<\/p>\n
“Bayindir was unbelievable in that game. I consider everything to put one on another.”<\/p>\n
There were actually four games, and almost a month, between the Tottenham defeat and the next time Bayindir played – in United’s FA Cup penalty shoot-out victory at Arsenal.<\/p>\n
Onana started all the matches in between.<\/p>\n
Given Amorim’s subsequent comments about his overall goalkeeping department, the chances are Onana will be back for next weekend’s trip to Fulham.<\/p>\n
“We proved today we can win any game in the Premier League, especially against a great team like Arsenal,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We were the better team. I’m happy with the three goalkeepers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amorim later clarified that Onana had not been dropped for this game and was also not about to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115048372280353100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}