Onana sparked wild celebrations at Previous Trafford on Tuesday night time, saving Jordan Larsson’s 97th-minute penalty with the sport’s ultimate contact to safe a 1-Zero win in opposition to FC Copenhagen in Group A.
Failure to win would’ve left United getting ready to a humiliating early exit, having tasted defeat of their opening two matches in opposition to Bayern Munich and Galatasaray.
Within the aftermath, a number of United stars took to their social media accounts to hail the 27-year-old goalkeeper and Harry Maguire, who netted the winner to proceed his renaissance.
However Garnacho’s submit drew controversy, publishing a picture of the staff celebrating Onana’s save with two gorilla emojis because the caption.
Garnacho deleted the submit lower than an hour later, however the Soccer Affiliation is conscious of the incident and has sought his observations on it.
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Nevertheless, Onana has taken to X (previously Twitter) and Instagram to defend Garnacho with a fierce response to criticism.
“Folks can’t select what I needs to be offended by. I do know precisely what @agarnacho7 meant: energy and power. This matter ought to go no additional. AO24,” Onana wrote.
The Cameroon worldwide included the identical photograph Garnacho utilized in his deleted submit, plus a separate picture of the pair hugging.
Garnacho, 19, performed the ultimate 30 minutes and may’ve scored twice earlier than the late drama.
He first misplaced management of the ball after being despatched by means of one-on-one by Bruno Fernandes earlier than firing straight at Kamil Grabara from shut vary, regardless of having loads of time and house on the counter-attack.
Regardless of Onana’s public defence and Garnacho’s fast deletion, the Argentinian ace may nonetheless be hit with a fantastic and ban.
In 2020, two months after arriving in England, Edinson Cavani was hit with a three-game suspension and £100,000 fantastic for utilizing the phrase ‘n*****o’ in an Instagram remark thanking a younger fan.
Cavani deleted the remark, loosely translating to ‘thanks little black boy’ or ‘man with black hair’, and issued an apology.
However the Uruguayan veteran did not escape punishment by an unbiased fee after admitting an FA cost of misconduct for an aggravated breach of the foundations regarding racism.