Rohan Sengupta
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea produced another top-drawer performance as Jose Mourinho’s side drew 0-0 with Sevilla on Wednesday in the first leg of Champions League’s last 16 tie.
It was another night when De Gea stressed his importance to the club. Prior to the game, the headlines were grabbed by Paul Pogba, who was omitted from the first team for the second time in less than a month.
But after the 0-0 stalemate vs Sevilla, all the attention turned to United’s No1. De Gea was absolutely phenomenal for us yet again and was the pillar of strength alongside his defence when the attackers endured an off-day.
Sevilla had racked up 20 shots compared to United’s three in the 65 minutes that summed up the display by Mourinho’s side. And despite having 20 shots inside 65 minutes, United didn’t concede even once, thanks to the brilliance of De Gea.
Joaquin Correa first tested De Gea down to his left before the Spanish keeper produced his best stops of the match right at the end of the half to first deny Steven N’Zonzi, before astonishingly tipping Luis Muriel’s goal-bound header over the top of the bar.
The second-half saw Sevilla shoot from distance but never really looked like threatening United’s goal. And after the blow of the final whistle, the scoreline luckily read 0-0 at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan for all the travelling United fans.
And for all his brilliance in Seville, De Gea was picked for the Champions League Player-of-the-week award alongside the likes of Bayern’s Thomas Muller, Chelsea’s Willian and Shakhtar’s Fred.
Manchester United’s official Twitter account tweeted this, to which the fans hailed our No.1 but vented out the frustration regarding the team’s lacklustre display against Sevilla.
Here we bring you the best of tweets.
Because he is playing in the only position on the pitch that Jose can’t control
— Josh Bates (@JoshAaronBates) 22 February 2018
Where would we be without him 😕
— Frear (@Frear3) 22 February 2018
Talk us about how poor the team has been playing & how bad the club has been run since Fergie left. We’ve become a team with no identity or style. Managers come; pay loads of money; play mediocre football; and yet it does not even seem to change any time soon!
— Ahmed #A7 (@fc_mualharbi) 22 February 2018
So good he has to do all the work last night pic.twitter.com/zev0jpDSE0
— Dudu Heritage 🇳🇬 (@hazeizz04) 22 February 2018
When a keeper gets to be voted best player,then team has played shity like man utd yesterday
— Kireni Matthew (@KireniM) 22 February 2018
Are we back to the Moyes/Van Gaal era where @D_DeGea is the only standout player for @ManUtd? He is no doubt the best in the world right now by a mile.
— Sammy (@freexerxes) 22 February 2018
Carry’s us. Sack mourinho the fraud
— 🔴 (@Zak_raf9) 22 February 2018
Dear God thank you for keeping me alive to support this team @ManUtd win or loss I will praise you!
— Collins the Hebrew™ (@colinstheHebrew) 22 February 2018
Talk to us about how bad the rest were and how crap our playing style is! And if you want to continue talking about De Gea then something best change cuz he won’t be staying around long playing as shit as we are at the minute under mourinho! He deserves way better!
— sam (@baino15) 22 February 2018
Erm, can we talk about how exceptionally crappy the rest of the team was instead!!
— Prashant (@pappulive20for7) 22 February 2018
Actually, lets talk about how shit we have become, Why is mourinho demanding every player to defend? did we bring alexis to defend or score goals? dominated by huddersfield, and yesterday got lucky with a 0-0 draw all coz of mou’s conservative approach
— Sanchester United (@Lokiteso) 22 February 2018
World class. We would be a mid table team without him. The team is not balanced at all. Jose needs to go back to basics and put in a performance similar to Chelsea at home last season when we attacked with speed and aggresive pressing
— Manchester Valiant 🐝 (@MVFCest2009) 22 February 2018
All i can say pic.twitter.com/NmNuZ4nTCv
— Mochena26 (@Mochena26) 22 February 2018
