Despite an impressive display yesterday against Spurs that reaffirmed why Manchester United paid £17m for him to replaced Edwin Van Der Sar, David De Gea has again found himself in the firing line.
At numerous points in the game it was De Gea that came to the team’s rescue with impressive feats of quick thinking and even quicker reflexes to keep Tottenham at bay.
Having already dived, he kept Gareth Bale off the score sheet using his legs to prevent the Welshman’s deflected effort drawing Spurs level at the end of the first half. Clint Dempsey looked a cert to score when Dembele played him through on goal but De Gea made himself big and some how kept the American out.
But at the game’s death, Benoit Assou Ekotto’s swung a ball into the box and under heavy pressure not only from a Caulker but Vidic, he failed to punch the ball clear. It fell to Lennon who set up Clint Dempsey for Spurs’ equaliser.
Whilst not all, many fans and pundits placed the blame on the goalkeeper and former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen has gone a step further urging Sir Alex to drop the young Spaniard.
Writing in his column for The Telegraph, Hansen said:
“Manchester United’s hopes of regaining the Premier League title will always be in jeopardy if David de Gea keeps making mistakes like the one against Spurs and he must surely be on his last chance now.
“Without a doubt he cost them three points and this is a crucial stage of the season where Sir Alex Ferguson needs to decide whether to stick with him or take him out the firing line.
“The result at White Hart Lane could prove a season-defining moment and United cannot afford to be drawing games when they should be winning them.”
I find it pretty amazing that Hansen could write such a thing considering the game De Gea had last night, he is an easy target as he has taken time to adapt to the English game as well as having figure like Peter Schmeichel and Edwin Van Der Sar looming over everything he does.
Scapegoating is so prevalent in football these days, it was only a year or 2 ago that the likes of Jonny Evans and Michael Carrick were being spoken of as liabilities but now both are highly rated by both fans and pundits.
Whilst De Gea does have areas of his game that need to be worked on, to blame him for yesterday’s result is ridiculous. It could be said that had it not been for him we may not have even picked up 1 point, let alone 3!
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@TheBusbyWay why blame our defence everytime when our midfield and strikers fell to retain possesion #MUFC
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Obnoxious article. You can blame anyone you want, fact is, your lot just played second fiddle to a better Tottenham side. COYS!
better tottenham side? your battling for 4th you drip.
easy to raise your game when the biggest club comes to town. most of your players were trying to impress to get a move
Spurs fans are hilarious, it seems finally getting out of Arsenal’s shadow has gone to your heads. Settle the fuck down muppet
I think he meant that Spurs were better on the day… Which they were. Maybe you jumprd up Utd should settle down.
I blame United fans that re always criticising #de_gea,
forget about #spurs_wanna_be fans.
Arrogant obnoxious twats!
@TheBusbyWay did hansen ask for gods gift(HART) to be dropped after sunderland cock up ? or reina for all the cock ups hes made in last 2 yr
Lets ignore the fact that without someone of De Gea’s quality we would have lost by 4 or 5. Hansen is a cock.
Yesterday also reaffirmed my view that if we’d have signed Dembele rather than Spurs, we’d be way more than 5 points clear
He really does need to catch the ball more often though. Punching out just seems to delay, rather than halt an attack. He also needs to man up and lose his ‘bodyguards’ during set plays.
DDG have delivered good in total this season in my opinion. It is easy for critics, like Alan Hansen, to focus entirely on the flaws he make from time to time, but he does not get the credit he deserves when he puts in good performances. DDG is capable of making saves few other keepers will do after him, and has been putting insolid displays this season. It is easy to forget that most of the goals United concedes this year is due to more structural problems, the midfiled does no close down when opposition comes into our goal area, which often results in players being able to finish without eough pressure. As well i think the defence should help out DDG more in getting in the aerial duels, they as well know that the spaniard has his weakness in the aerial area.
I reallt do hope SAF does not start to swith between DDG and Lindegaard again now, the spaniard does not deserve that, he has been farbetter than the dane.
And I must say that keepers like Reina and Szcezesny has been of poorer sndard, but does not get the same amount of stick, but thats a part of playing for United. Hart as well has had a good number of poor displays.
Alan Hansen has his agenda, and DDG has desvered his criticism of earlier, but after a match like yesterday? No way, he should have done better on the goal, but I do not think you can say it was a keeper mistake really.
people see the quality he has, so they pick up on anything to unsettle him wishing he will be on his way.