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When Manchester United first considered delaying Andre Onana's departure for the Africa Cup of Nations to play in the third round of the FA Cup, the Cameroon goalkeeper probably didn't expect it to be on an icy Monday night at Wigan.

Onana could have been lining up for Cameroon against Zambia in Jeddah on Tuesday where the temperature in Saudi Arabia will be touching 30 degrees.

Instead, he was stepping out at the DW Stadium on Monday night where the thermometer struggled to reach two degrees above freezing at kick-off.

The United keeper will stay back for one more game, at home to Tottenham on Sunday, before departing for Ivory Coast where Cameroon meet Guinea on Monday in Yamoussoukro, where it was an even hotter 35 degrees on Monday.