Andre Onana downplays double-save heroics as Man Utd held to draw despite being 'way better' than Crystal Palace with Erik ten Hag praising goalkeeper's 'explosive' ability

Onana made an absolutely brilliant double save to deny first Eddie Nketiah and then Ismaila Sarr on the follow-up, as United drew 0-0 at Selhurst Park. The goalkeeper's stop was world-class but he insists it means little to him because Erik ten Hag's side failed to win the game.

The Red Devils created multiple chances throughout the game, as Alejandro Garnacho missed a trio of presentable opportunities, and Bruno Fernandes hit the crossbar. Matthijs De Ligt was also denied from close-range by the impressive Dean Henderson, and Onana insists he and his team-mates were "way better" than the Eagles.

Onana said to Sky Sports: "I don’t think it is so important because we didn’t win. We are such a big club. When we move somewhere, we have the ambition to try to win. We didn’t win but I’m happy for the work, the sacrifice of my team-mates because I think we were better than them. We had so many chances but unfortunately, we didn’t score. It’s difficult to come back with one point when we deserved to win.

"To be honest, yes. I thought [we would score]. Football sometimes, you can’t control everything. We were coming in, we had more chances and I had faith always in my guys. Today, we hit the crossbar twice and hopefully in the coming games, we will score a lot.

"I think we were better than them, I think we were way better than them. We had more chances than them. We had the best chances during the game. Of course, they are a very good team, but we were way better than them."

Ten Hag told BBC Match of the Day: "Unbelievable save, Andre is so explosive. He’s such a great stopper. It’s twice in one action."

He added: "We all see now how good he is. His reactions are so good, he’s so quick and we saw that with the save in the second half."

United play Dutch side Twente in the Europa League on Wednesday. They will then return to Premier League action on Sunday against Tottenham.