Onana "sad" to only take a point

Although much has been made of the fact it was a fixture we lost 4-0 last term, the goalless draw was one that irked the Cameroon international, who thought the Reds deserved much more for our efforts across the 90 minutes.

Despite a string of missed chances, with former Academy graduate Dean Henderson and the woodwork causing much of the frustration, it took a blinding double stop from Onana to deny Eddie Nketiah and Ismaila Sarr in the second half, to keep a clean sheet at the other end.

"I think [my save] it is not so important," he told Sky Sports afterwards. "Because we didn't win. We are such a big club, when we go somewhere, I think we have the ambition to try to win. We didn't win but I'm happy for the work and for the sacrifice of my team-mates. I feel we were better than them. We had so many chances but, unfortunately, didn't score. It's difficult to go back with one point when we deserved to win.

"One hundred per cent, it's always nice to keep a clean sheet but the most important thing, especially playing for Manchester United, you have to win. We didn't lose today but we came here with the mentality [to win] so we go home disappointed."

Onana admitted he felt it was just one of those days in the capital, when misfortune counted against Erik ten Hag's team.

"Football, sometimes, you cannot control everything," he added. "We were dominant, we had more chances. I had faith, always in my guys. We hit the bar twice and, hopefully, in the coming games, we will score a lot.

"We had an important game for us to win but I go back home sad because Manchester United, everywhere we go, we have to play good football, we have to win, we have to be dominant, create chances and we have to finish."