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Give him time: Why Andre Onana shouldn't be blamed for Manchester United awful start

 In the midst of adversity, there's always hope at the end of the tunnel and in case of Manchester United, the season will only get better despite the slow start. Manchester United are in 13th place, 9 points behind predestined title holders Manchester City and 7 ahead of their rapidly improving rivals Arsenal. The fact that this season has been a bad start could be attributed to organizational errors, players' lack of trust and the keeper who is widely regarded as one of the main problems.

Andre Onana was signed to replace the departing David De Gea who over the years have proven countless times that he is a world class keeper who in his day is impenetrable irrespective of the defenders in his front. Unfortunately, for lack of distribution he has not been given credit for his heroics between posts. 

The modern keeper has to be excellent in distributing the ball from the back and not just shot stopping. Andre Onana those fits the bill but, he just needs time to adjust to fast and furious Premier League.

 Andre Onana needs some time to get used to the Premier League, just as certain outfield players sometimes need a season or two to adjust. 

 It's certainly a bad start, to concede six goals in fourteen competitive matches, but Onana is always going to admit his mistakes and figure it out. His howler against Bayern Munich to allow Leroy Sane to score the first goal of the match was heart wrenching; subsequent mistakes was disaster to make it 4.

That embarrassing display from Andre Onana created unwanted record for Manchester United and Erik Ten Hag. 

The United manage is now the first United manager to lose four of his opening six matches of the season since Ron Atkinson in 1986. The irony was that Atkinson was fired a few weeks later before a certain Alex Ferguson was hired. 

The decline is massive and Manchester United fans will be now hoping that Andre Onana who owned up to his mistakes against Bayern Munich will improve his stop stopping ability because at the end of the day that's all that matters as a keeper. 

Fancy distribution is good to watch during build up play but keeping shots out of the nets save points, win games and titles. 

No doubt Andre Onana needs time adjust but, he also needs to focus much more on shot stopping and less on distribution just like Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker who made similar mistakes in his first season. 


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