Which was in your initial post - I'm just responding to what you wrote and apparently now I've got to speak to them to validate your point - how very bizarre?
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[Albion] The Goalkeeping problem since being in the Premier League.
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Who is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League in 24/25?
Kepa has been excellent this season - he has the best save percentage in the Premier League - but Dean Henderson has also been brilliant.
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Verbruggen 20th below Fraser Forster and onana. FMLWho is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League in 24/25?
Kepa has been excellent this season - he has the best save percentage in the Premier League - but Dean Henderson has also been brilliant.
Left Footer
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Goalkeepers make mistakes, some more than others.
Part and parcel of the game, please name one goalkeeper that has never made a mistake.
Part and parcel of the game, please name one goalkeeper that has never made a mistake.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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Who is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League in 24/25?
Kepa has been excellent this season - he has the best save percentage in the Premier League - but Dean Henderson has also been brilliant.
So Mads Hermansen (and most of the goalkeepers in the division) are better than World Cup winner (golden gloves dry humper) and Yashin Trophy winner Emiliano Martinez.
Granted he’s a total cock but Martinez being almost bottom of that list shows the futility of comparing just one stat in isolation.
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Yes but in terms of mistakes leading to goals against I believe verbruggen is up there maybe as number one this season. (Someone needs to dig out the stat but it was said in commentary recently)
Withdean South Stand
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I agree with your final statement, but Martinez has been poor this season. If he carries on as he is, I don't think Villa will keep him for next season.
I really like Verbruggen, I think he's an excellent goalkeeper and our best in the PL era but he's in a bad run of form at the moment and really needs to work out what he's doing with his kicking. He needs to take significantly fewer risks.
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True .... I'm yearning for him at the moment
But when he was a regular he was getting dogs abuse on here quite a bit !!
Pretty damning.Who is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League in 24/25?
Kepa has been excellent this season - he has the best save percentage in the Premier League - but Dean Henderson has also been brilliant.
Thunder Bolt
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I think goalkeepers are judged very differently now and as a result really good goalkeepers are a rarity. If you're a good shot stopper you generally get told your kicking needs improving and vice versa. How many keepers in the premier league are considering good at both? Not many.
Jackthelad
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The problem with these stats is they don’t quantify clangers, which are so destructive to a team. Someone like Sanchez has won his opponents the game on his own just by his clangers.
I'd say the explanation of the context is pretty damming in respect of it's intended scientific nature of measuring something:
"FBREF explains that positive numbers suggest better luck or an above-average ability to stop shots."
So it could therefore theoretically be argued that Bart's low score could be down to being unlucky and not as lucky as those higher up the list
Isn’t once every 67 years enough ffs?
sussex_guy2k2
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And quite a few wouldn’t.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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According to the PL stat site, Bart is third with 4 mistakes. Joint first are Muric of Ipswich and Robert Sanchez with 5 each. Onana is one behind Bart with 3.
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And yet Bart is first choice for Netherlands?
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The most annoying thing about Bart is his unwillingness to EVER play a quick ball after he has collected the ball from an opposition shot. It really irritates me because it means we never have a fast counter attack with most of the opposition in our half. He also persists with putting his foot on the ball and doing nothing even when it’s obvious the opposition aren’t going to try and close him down.