He had a really interesting effect on the game yesterday.
His weak passing has meant that two sides who have refused to press us outright for the few years suddenly tried to press us really quite aggressively. It's clear he had been targeted by OGS and Lampard.
The interesting thing is that he doesn't panic like you'd expect when closed down. Not like Hart or Caballero or a lot of keepers who are uncomfortable playing out.
So while it was quite ugly and required a lot of help from the back 4, he stays pretty calm and manages to just about get the ball away and then the outfield players have so much more space than they are used to, we cut through the opposition like in the early days of 2017/18.
If we try to do this against a really good pressing side, I am pretty sure he would get caught out sooner rather than later, but for these couple of games it really helped us at times because the effect of getting past the press was much bigger than the danger the press posed us.
Absolutely no way he's keeping his place, I can only assume it's the American block of fans who are floating that and I'll put it down to stars and stripes tinted glasses. Eddie is first name on the team sheet, and will be as long as Pep's here, but he might prove a good enough cup keeper and I suspect he'll stay a couple of years, win a few trophies before leaving for a starting gig somewhere decent.
