De Gea “sticks” but does not take penalties at Manchester United against Brighton and receives criticism in the nets | England Cup

Between one penalty kick and the next, the athlete would carefully read the notes on the paper, perhaps with a study of the opponent’s penalty kicks. Despite this, he did not make any saves. United relied on Solly Mars’s shot to take the lead. De Gea commented on the opponent’s kicks after the match.

– There were big penalties. He was prepared as usual. I tried to put pressure on the batsmen. It was a very contested game, we played against a very good team. The goalkeeper said Brighton plays very good football Manchester United.

According to Transfermarkt, De Gea has 13 penalties out of 72 shots taken in his career, with an average of 1 save for every 5.5 attempts.. This only includes penalties awarded for infractions during playing time, not in penalty shoot-outs like last Sunday.

In Sunday’s dispute, the goalkeeper showed dedication to studying opponents, but also fell short in defence. Experienced Brazilian Casemiro was seen waving and sending a message to De Gea during the penalty shootout.

On social networks, the fans could not forgive another penalty shootout in which the Spanish goalkeeper “passed point blank”. After Manchester United’s hard-fought victory, a lot of criticism of De Gea and memes appeared on the Internet.