{"id":92732,"date":"2025-05-11T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92732\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:41:09","slug":"why-andre-onana-isnt-in-manchester-united-squad-vs-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92732\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Andre Onana isn&#8217;t in Manchester United squad vs West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong Man United squad has arrived for their penultimate home fixture of the season against West Ham United.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_GettyImages-2213420634.jpg\" alt=\"United line up against Athletic Bilbao\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>United line up against Athletic Bilbao<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Andre Onana has been rested for Manchester United&#8217;s Premier League fixture against West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Onana, who travelled to Brentford for last week&#8217;s 4-3 defeat but was not in the squad, will sit out United&#8217;s penultimate home fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 29-year-old is set to start the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/europa-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa League<\/a> final against Tottenham Hotspur on May 21. Onana is likely to play in United&#8217;s final match before the final at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/chelsea-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> next Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">United coach Ruben Amorim rested Onana for the 4-1 humbling by Newcastle United last month after he made two errors in the 2-2 Europa League quarter-final first leg against Lyon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Altay Bayindir is expected to start in goal for the second league game running, despite conceding eight goals in his two league appearances for United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Third-choice goalie Tom Heaton is expected to be on the bench again while academy &#8216;keeper Dermot Mee will assist in the warm-ups with goalkeeping coach Jorge Vital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Amorim has otherwise named a strong squad. Noussair Mazraoui did not travel to Brentford last week but he arrived at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/old-trafford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Trafford<\/a> on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Here at the Manchester Evening News, we&#8217;re dedicated to bringing you the best <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-united-fc\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Manchester UnitedLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> coverage and analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Make sure you don&#8217;t miss out on the latest United news by joining our free WhatsApp group. 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Our shows are available on all podcast platforms, including <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6Rf3zHSgSYkYIA4zaYPz5y\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Spotify<\/strong><\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=76202X1528180&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fmanchester-is-red-manchester-united-podcast%2Fid1264579243&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ffootball-news%2Fhes-ready-man-united-already-31228583\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Apple Podcasts<\/strong><\/a>, and you can also watch along on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ManUtd_MEN\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">YouTube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong Man United squad has arrived for their penultimate home fixture of the season against West Ham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[423,26709,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-92732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-manchester-united-fc","9":"tag-manchester-united-fc-team-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114489255210331778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732","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=92732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}