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Nick Pope!
Nick Pope
Nick Pope
Him
Am I the only one who thinks clean sheets are more of an indication of great defensive play rather than great goalkeeping ability?
I think it’s a bit of both, even a single great save can result in a clean sheet. Kobel for time and again has saved our asses so has MATS for barca in last couple of seasons.
Let me turn that thought around: Am I the only one who thinks goals scored are more of an indication of great offensive play rather than great scoring ability?
Let’s say a keeper faces like 10 shots a game and has to save every single one to keep his clean sheet. A striker can bottle 9 chances and just poach in one shot to score.
Ucl final of 2022 is probably the biggest example of how sometimes it’s the defence, sometimes the keeper single handedly and sometimes a combination of both
True but Curtois carries that ucl win from the groups to the final, his saves were crazy and impressive
My mate is a Liverpool fan and that final still gives him PTSD to this day
I have never been in more disbelief after that final, what a performance by Courtois that day
Yeah it really depends on the specific game and the keeper. Some keepers also kind of run the defense and some dont.
There should be another measurement than played games. As you said, a GK with bad players upfront is likely to be more in the middle of the action, hence potentially gets beaten more often.
I would love to have more context available from such stats, like how many shots on target, saves made in general or as others mentioned saved penalties.
Case in point Onana last year
Szczesny at 5 in 7 seems really good.
Don’t jinx us.
The names/badges Dimitrievski and Skorupski are mixed up.
yea. i almost thought that dimitrievski moved on deadline day or sth lol.
3 Polish goalkeepers in top 10 is impressive.
The National Team hasn’t even called up Bulka, who is likely the future.
Dudek legacy
Polish goalkeepers are insane
Mlynarczyk started a trend for great polish goalkeepers
As it has always been. Młynarczyk was just the first who flew to the West and achieved the highest.
Regardless of a decade, Poland had at least 1 very good goalkeeper.
Honestly, I don’t know how is this a thing.
Very! Can Poland please give away one to other national teams in need?
Only as an exchange for anyone who can play football. Preferably center or left backs.
God damn you Spain, why do you have so much of them!?What’s funny is the actual CB they play are french…
yes, but they have a shit ton of left backs
And they even have some good ones not on the list like grabara
It’s a shame you’re only allowed to have one on the pitch, otherwise we may actually have had a chance to qualify for EUROs.
Ah, the well known Slovenia problem.
Get in line mate, Romania has this problem for at least 10 years.
Just as bad as having both Oblak and Handanovic for years?
Nah you know what, fair point, I haven’t even realize
For some reason Poland has seemed to generate a disproportionate number of quality keepers for a number of years now. Especially when you compare it to some of the crap you see in other positions in the national team 😂
We’ve had so many of them come and go from our Academy over the years
Their damn good
3 Polish keepers on this list 🔥🔥
You know when the Poles are in the thread because their usernames always look like a daedric summoning ritual.
Nice, Juventus and Bologna to be exact
forever peeved that Alison never makes these lists despite being one of the best keepers in the world.
Not his fault his defence is playing patty cakes
ligue 1 isnt a top 5 league
This is true from the perspective of ‘performance of teams in European competitions in the last 5 years’ but there are other factors that impact the inclusion or exclusion of leagues in statistics. France is a top 5 league in revenue for example, which is a fairly good proxy to measure how many people follow the league and would therefore be interested in hearing stats about it.
I personally would like all stats to include the top 7 leagues but it gets tiring to see people pretend not to understand why Ligue 1 is chosen as the 5th league ahead of Eredivisie or Primeira Liga.
No one actually thinks the Eredivisie is better than Ligue 1, it’s just funny to make fun of the French.
Nice, three Polish goalkeepers
The ordering is so annoying! Ter Stegen should be too, poor third… more games with the same clean sheets…
Feel like pure shit just want him back 💔💔
Ter stegen has been in vintage form for the last few seasons
Good to see that Nice got a good replacement. As Walter Benitez is currently on 6 clean sheets in 9 games for PSV as well.
Bulka any good?
6 clean sheets, 2 penalties saved, finally got called up for Poland squad (as a 3rd goalkeeper tho). You should try to get him back before the price gets ridiculous.