Lyon draw 'best result of season' despite Onana errors

Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After Joshua Zirkzee nodded home from a magnificent lifted pass by Bruno, giving Manchester United the lead in Lyon with moments left, we began putting together a triumphant podcast.

Unfortunately, there was still time in the Europa League quarter final first leg for Andre Onana to concede; all this coming after a war of words with Nemanja Matic and a bad first-half error to gift Thiago Almada the opening goal.

Judging by Ruben Amorim's comments, there's a non-zero chance Altay Bayindir will start the game at Newcastle. More importantly, there's a pretty good chance Manchester United will progress to the Europa League semi-final stage.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:18.8	This is Talk of the Devils, the Athletics podcast dedicated to Manchester United.
0:23.1	It's approaching midnight in Leon.
0:24.8	It's approaching 11pm in Manchester on Thursday night.
0:28.4	And we've just watched Manchester United somehow, we know how,
0:32.5	draw two all against Leon in the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinal.
0:37.3	We're here to talk about every detail of that,
0:39.5	including Andrew O'Nana, of course, doing his best to be the story before the game, during it and after.
0:45.9	There's Newcastle next, of course, I look forward to in the Premier League before the second leg.
0:50.4	But I've got Carl Anker and Andy Mittitten looking back at me on my computer screen.
0:55.4	Both of them are cuddled up in the press box in France after being at the game tonight.
1:00.8	I don't want to start on Andrea Onana.
1:02.3	I want to start on the positives if we can because that was, apart from a couple of moments,
1:07.1	a very good away performance in Europe from Manchester United, wasn't it, Carl?
1:11.5	That was five minutes away from it being a famous victory.
1:14.5	30 seconds?
1:17.6	Last kick.
1:18.6	Last kick of the game.
1:19.6	How far away were we from talking about Joshua Xerxes
1:24.5	and how he's turned it around.
1:26.5	Another monstrous performance from Bruno Fernandez in Century Midfield
1:29.5	Mason Mount coming in.
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