‘My theory here is he’s just lifting up, he’s not setting off, his arm is coming up to go down, whereas, as a goalkeeper you learn to dive along the around for the ball, you don’t go up to come down.

Manchester United's Andre Onana (L) and Jonny Evans (R) react after the first goal during the English Premier League match between Manchester United and Brentford
Andre Onana is losing the trust of his Manchester United teammates, says Peter Schmeichel (EPA)
‘We saw the same mistake against Bayern Munich and I notice the same thing, he just kind of lifts himself instead of actually diving and moving towards the ball.’

Asked why Onana is using that technique, Schmeichel replied: ‘Don’t ask me because I’m not Onana, I don’t know. It’s a technical [issue].

‘I think a lot of that is pressure, I spoke to him after Bayern, I spoke to him after the other Champions League match against Galatasaray as well, he’s very down on the mistakes he’s made.

‘I’m trying to speak to him about what it’s like to be at Manchester United, what you have to take.

‘Whatever you’ve made, you have to put it in a box straight away and put it to the side. So you make a mistake in a game, it might be a mistake we see, it might be a mistake that we don’t see, but you wait to think about it and analyse it until after the game or at night or whatever. You have to be there for the next moment, if you’re not you’ll make the next mistake.

‘And now he’s upset the whole team. Now they will even more not trust him, and my god, it’s not good.’