Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info The goalkeeping situation at Manchester United is like a tagline from a blockbuster: whoever wins, they lose. Lyon felt like a defeat, given the manner of Andre Onana's 95th-minute error. Three days later, Newcastle inflicted the heaviest loss on United this season with Altay Bayindir between the sticks. Bayindir gifted Newcastle a fourth goal with a feeble kick that Joelinton nudged forward for Bruno Guimaraes. Bayindir's kicking was an issue from kick-off, when United were ordered to play the ball back to him. Bayindir floated the ball into Newcastle's third and to Fabian Schar. Ruben Amorim had to instruct Bayindir where to place another kick. Narrowing his hands together, Amorim seemingly signalled for the Turk to punt the ball down the middle. Bayindir's kicking was so appalling in the FA Cup tie at Arsenal he kept finding touch. Going down the middle at least kept the ball in play. But for Newcastle. United were incapable of emerging from their own third with the ball once Newcastle started to press intensely. Joshua Zirkzee was advised to withdraw, so he had more room to gather any long balls. Opta say Bayindir attempted 57 passes and completed only 27. United signed Bayindir as a back-up goalie for £4.3million from Fenerbahce. What you see is what you get. United are unlikely to deviate from their plan to recall Onana against Lyon on Thursday. The notion of rotating goalies may also go out the window. Newcastle was the first game out of 102 that Onana was omitted from the squad and it was on borderline compassionate grounds. Bayindir performed in the third round at Arsenal, his performance defined by two penalty saves in normal time and the shootout. That is something for Amorim to consider for midweek if United and Lyon are still deadlocked with the two-hour mark looming. Onana has saved two out of 17 penalties and United have lost two of the three shootouts with him in goal. Onana failed to stop any of Fulham's four conversions in the FA Cup fifth round loss, though he did save from Callum O'Hare and Bernardo Silva against Coventry City and Manchester City last year. Five minutes before the end of extra time in the 2005 FA Cup final, Sir Alex Ferguson told Tim Howard to warm up. Howard never came on, Roy Carroll was beaten by all five of Arsenal's spotkicks and United relinquished the cup. Howard played 27 times and Carroll 34 that season, the one of Pedro Mendes's 'ghost goal'. Carroll was released after the FA Cup final and Howard was definitively replaced by the incoming Edwin van der Sar. Ferguson's uncertainty dated back to Howard spilling Benni McCarthy's free kick that was turned in by Costinha for the goal that made Jose Mourinho's career. Howard was benched for six games and Carroll started the uproarious FA Cup semi-final win against Arsenal at Villa Park, memorably clawing away a header from Kolo Toure. But Howard was restored for the final six games. Ferguson was charitable enough to bring Carroll on in the Cup final stroll against Millwall. After Anders Lindegaard came into the team for the start of United's 2011 Champions League group stage in September, David de Gea did not start more than three successive matches until February. And that was only enforced by an injury to Lindegaard. Ferguson bristled at the ITV Sport reporter Kelly Cates, whose father Kenny Dalglish was the Liverpool manager at the time, for asking whether Lindegaard would keep his place after he impressed against Benfica. Lindegaard had joined United six months before De Gea for a frugal fee of £3.5m. De Gea, a British-record goalkeeper signing at £18.9m, was the expectant No.1. Only the United jersey did not fit De Gea. Literally. With his waifish schoolboy frame, he was a pushover and explicitly dropped by Ferguson after his costly 'keeping in a defeat to Blackburn on the Scot's 70th birthday. De Gea's first start back as No.1 at Chelsea in February 2012 was memorable for his agile denial of Juan Mata's free kick. By turning that curling ball around the post, De Gea had reached a turning point. He was not dropped or rested for the remaining 18 games. Lindegaard was sidelined for the entirety of that time. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was so indecisive with De Gea and Dean Henderson four years ago he deliberately changed the pattern of rotation to soften the decision of starting De Gea in the Europa League final. Henderson cottoned on before he was told and advised his family not to book travel and accommodation for the final in Gdansk. United effectively ended that 2020-21 season without a No.1. Henderson was briefly the first choice in the Premier League yet De Gea was made number two without being outright dropped. He flew to Spain for paternity leave and missed matches as he had to quarantine amid Covid-19 protocols. Of the 14 games United had after the March internationals, De Gea and Henderson each started in seven games. Solskjaer had decided to install Henderson as first choice for the following season, with Tom Heaton as number two, and sell De Gea. Henderson contracted Covid-19 days after attending the European Championship final, was laid low for two months and missed his shot at replacing De Gea. De Gea survived two more seasons, played 104 more times for United, claimed the club's clean sheet and goalkeeper appearance records but the die had been cast. Peter Schmeichel, one of the most incomprehensible commentators on United, recommended they replace De Gea with Illan Meslier. Whenever United goalkeepers are rotated in a duel for a winner, there tend to only be losers.