ANDRE ONANA has fired back after being savaged by Man Utd cult hero Nemanja Matic ahead of the Red Devils’ Europa League clash with Lyon.
The Serb called him “one of the worst Man Utd goalkeepers in history” after Onana claimed the Red Devils are a much better team than Lyon.
Matic, 36, now plays his football for the French side after spending five years with United between 2017 and 2022.
And he was left unimpressed by the Man Utd goalkeeper’s comments in the run-up to the match.
Cameroon international Onana had said: “I think we are better than them, we just have to go there and show who we are.
“If we go there with a winning mentality and we are focused, stay compact and together and we follow the game plan we will be winning the game.
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“We know some of them, but I don’t think we have to focus on them. It’s more about us, what we’re going to do,” he said.
“Of course it’s not going to be easy, but I think we are way better than them.”
However, Matic responded with a sensational slapdown.
The former Chelsea title winner said: “To say that, you need to have cover.
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“Onana? Pfft, I respect everyone but to say that then you need to get the answer.
“If you are one of the worst goalkeepers in Man United history, you need to take care what you are talking.
“If David de Gea or Peter Schmeichel or Van der Sar said that, I would question myself.
“But if you are one of the, statistically, worst goalkeepers in Man Utd’s modern history then, you know, he needs to show that [he is much better] before he says [that].”
But Onana did not take the insult lying down.
He responded with a post on X, saying: “I would never be disrespectful to another club.
“We know that tomorrow will be a difficult game against a strong opponent.
“We focus on preparing a performance to make our fans proud.
“At least I’ve lifted trophies with the greatest club in the world. Some can’t say the same.”
Matic also touched on the differences between his time at Chelsea, where he won two Premier League titles and Man Utd, where he failed to win a trophy.
The midfielder told The Athletic: “The difference I felt after Chelsea was that, at Chelsea, everything was about the result and winning trophies.
“That was the spirit in the whole club, even from the man who cuts the grass. Roman Abramovich would only ask us about results.
“At United, it was more commercial-minded. I started to think that after a couple of months in the club.
“I arrived at United with the anger to win trophies like I had at Chelsea, but step by step I started to feel that trophies were not the focus.
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“I understand that our salary needs to be paid, but I felt that the results were not the focus like it was at Chelsea.
“I maybe did two commercial jobs at Chelsea, at United it was far more.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
