{"id":381989,"date":"2025-08-29T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:56:12","slug":"manchester-united-dressing-room-confidence-in-goalkeepers-dwindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381989\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United dressing room confidence in goalkeepers dwindling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The League Cup defeat to Grimsby Town has already plunged Man United into their first crisis of the season before September.\"OnanaOnana had another night to forget at Grimsby<\/p>\n

Manchester United players consider the humiliating League Cup defeat to Grimsby Town to be a new low and confidence is dwindling in their first and second-choice goalkeepers.<\/p>\n

Dressing room sources say the experienced contingent in the United squad regard the 2-2 draw with Grimsby and subsequent 12-11 penalty shootout defeat as their worst result.<\/p>\n

United lost 5-0 and 7-0 home and away to Liverpool<\/a> in the past four years, while there have been seven 4-0 humblings since Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> retired in 2013, but the players acknowledge elimination by League Two Grimsby was a new nadir.<\/p>\n

A number of players are also uneasy about the goalkeeping situation. Altay Bayindir committed a costly error in United’s opening Premier League<\/a> defeat to Arsenal and Andre Onana was culpable for both of Grimsby’s goals.<\/p>\n

Onana made his first appearance since the Europa League<\/a> final at Blundell Park, where he was beaten at his near post by Charles Vernam and failed to claim a corner that was bundled in by Tyrell Warren. The 29-year-old made one save in the penalty shootout but got his glove onto five other spotkicks that still beat him.<\/p>\n

Bayindir conceded to Arsenal left back Riccardo Calafiori from a corner and the Turkey international was targeted from set pieces in the 1-1 draw with Fulham a week later. Third-choice goalie, Tom Heaton, has not played since February 2023 but is fully fit.<\/p>\n

Onana could be back on the bench for the Premier League visit of Burnley as he has effectively lost his No.1 status and there remains uncertainty over his future.<\/p>\n

United have held discussions about the possible signing of Royal Antwerp goalkeeper Senne Lammens but Onana is determined to stay at the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A befuddled Ruben Amorim was reluctant to speak at length about Onana’s ‘keeping. “It’s not about Andre. We are here with all due respect. I already said that the best team won. But this is a fourth division team. Andre should play just with his feet during this game? It’s not that that happened.<\/p>\n

“It’s not the goalkeeper. It’s more than that. He’s everybody. Thank you guys.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The League Cup defeat to Grimsby Town has already plunged Man United into their first crisis of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[11382,8000,748,393,4884,2465,423,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-381989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-altay-bayindir","9":"tag-andre-onana","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-united-fc","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115110988090650556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381989","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=381989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}