Peter Schmeichel slams Manchester United star after win over Burnley

Altay Bayindir was largely at fault for Burnley’s second goal against Manchester United (Picture: Getty)

Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel singled out Altay Bayindir for criticism after the goalkeeper produced another poor performance in the club’s nervy 3-2 win over Burnley .

After missing a crucial penalty against Fulham , Bruno Fernandes kept his cool to convert a late spot-kick and rescue the Red Devils in front of a relieved Old Trafford crowd.

Newly promoted Burnley had twice equalised to peg United back in Saturday’s thrilling contest before Fernandes’ dramatic late penalty – and Bayindir was largely at fault for the visitors’ second goal.

Despite several shaky moments in United’s two opening games of the campaign, Ruben Amorim decided to keep his faith in the Turkey international, with Andre Onana again starting on the substitutes bench.

And after a relatively promising start to the game, Bayindir managed to spill Loum Tchaouna’s 66th-minute effort into the path of Jaidon Anthony, who made no mistake from close range.

Facing the media shortly after the final whistle, Ruben Amorim – not for the first time – jumped to Bayindir’s defence, simply emphasising that it was ‘hard to be a Manchester United goalkeeper’.

‘They are humans. At Manchester United, everything is analysed. Everybody talks about the goalkeeper,’ the United head coach told reporters.

The Turk has, at times, looked out of his depth this season (Picture: Getty)

Amorim defended Bayindir after the goalkeeper’s latest blunder (Picture: Getty)

‘And you can see, I can change the goalkeeper and these situations keep happening. We are in that moment.

‘I think it is hard to be a Manchester United goalkeeper in this moment. But if you look at the first goal, we can defend it better.

‘We suffered a quite similar goal against Fulham, because we don’t do the full rotation of the team when the ball is on the other side.

‘All these small things have nothing to do with the goalkeeper.’

Schmeichel slammed Bayindir for ‘gifting’ Burnley a way back (Picture: Getty)

Former United shot-stopper, Schmeichel, wasn’t quite so forgiving, though, blasting Bayindir for ‘gifting’ Burnley their second-half leveller.

‘Have a look at all the red shirts doing nothing and then that isn’t great goalkeeping,’ Schmeichel said on Premier League Productions.

‘Just hold onto it! Just hold onto it!

‘Or, if you feel you can’t hold onto it, get it somewhere else, save, out to one of the sides.

‘He gave it straight back to Anthony and that was a gift.’

Fernandes won it in the seventh minute of stoppage time (Picture: Getty)

Schmeichel reserved special praise for Fernandes for ‘stepping up’ and delivering under intense pressure in the dying moments.

‘I think it’s a penalty but it’s one of the softer ones,’ the 1999 treble hero said of Anthony’s shirt pull on Amad Diallo.

‘It’s stupid, so stupid. There’s no need to do that.

‘We’ve been trusting Bruno to take these penalties for years and today he was back on track.

‘I tell you what, when you are under that kind of pressure as a football club and as the manager is, as the individual players are, and he [Fernandes] is as well, because he is the leader of that team and the team is not working perfectly… you stepping up there in the 97th minute, that’s pressure, that’s a lot of pressure and he just dealt with that.

‘Fantastic. Well done.’

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