Andre Onana has reached the point that every Manchester United player dreads

When the seventh question on Andre Onana began, Ruben Amorim allowed himself a smile. He might have been hoping that his goalkeeper wasn't watching or listening, whether he was back in the Carrington canteen or on his way home.

That was the advice of Harry Maguire, who fielded the ninth and final question on Onana during a pre-match press conference dominated by the under-pressure goalkeeper. Of 17 questions, nine were about Onana, and four of the other eight concerned routine enquiries about team news.

This is the point of an Old Trafford career that every player wants to avoid. When you become the focus of discussion around a club that demands more column inches, social media hashtags and phone-in fury than almost any other in world football, it is rarely a good thing.

Maybe it was fitting that Maguire was sat next to Amorim for the press conference to preview tonight's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Lyon, because he is one of the few who has been in Onana's shoes at United and survived to tell the tale.

The centre-back is no longer clinging to his United career, but he has been to the brink at this club. For a long time, he was the topic of the day, his travails picked over, his form dissected, his mere presence at Old Trafford criticised.

"Try your best to ignore it all, focus on your job, come in on a daily basis and do your best," was his sound advice to the goalkeeper he will try and protect tonight.

"I always said to myself, ‘Tomorrow night is another game of football, go on that pitch and give it absolutely everything’. When you walk off you say to yourself. ‘I’ve left everything out there’. No matter how you perform, that is only what you can do.

"It’s the same for any player who wears this