Not sure I agree he didn’t do anything you wouldn’t expect him to do, unless you mean you think he is brilliant and therefore today was par for course.Stood up to everything thrown at him (although im sure somebody will comment on him not saving the penalty) but he wasn't even particularly great tonight. Nothing you wouldnt expect him to save, he's been better this season and yet been hammered on here. Amazing what a few routine saves which he normally doesn't have to make can do for the perception of those that want to slaughter him at every opportunity for failing to save shots he's not facing.
No need to defend ederson to me mate, I'm routinely one of his loudest defenders on here. I agree with your assessment on the sane chance and that cross/shot from coman immediately before we scored as being good bits of goalkeeping but nothing standout.Not sure I agree he didn’t do anything you wouldn’t expect him to do, unless you mean you think he is brilliant and therefore today was par for course.
I count his intervention for Sane’s missed chance as a save, as his handling of it is what put Sane off from simply chipping him and his approach angle made a shot on the deck very low percentage.
The save for Bayern’s shot right before we scored was outstanding (and enabled the resulting counter from Stones to Kev to Haaland to Goal).
He had a few others great stops or smothers, as well.
His overall positional play has improved quite a bit in recent weeks, including delaying his charge in the box to better use his defenders and cutdown the angle for attackers running through. And we saw that throughout the match.
I have always been an Eddie defender but tonight I didn’t think I would need to do it . I thought everyone would recognise his performance as arguably the best in the match (Stones did run him close, though). Maybe even his best in the CL.
I still wouldn’t trade him for any other keeper.
Not sure I agree he didn’t do anything you wouldn’t expect him to do, unless you mean you think he is brilliant and therefore today was par for course.
I count his intervention for Sane’s missed chance as a save, as his handling of it is what put Sane off from simply chipping him and his approach angle made a shot on the deck very low percentage.
The save for Bayern’s shot right before we scored was outstanding (and enabled the resulting counter from Stones to Kev to Haaland to Goal).
He had a few others great stops or smothers, as well.
His overall positional play has improved quite a bit in recent weeks, including delaying his charge in the box to better use his defenders and cutdown the angle for attackers running through. And we saw that throughout the match.
I have always been an Eddie defender but tonight I didn’t think I would need to do it . I thought everyone would recognise his performance as arguably the best in the match (Stones did run him close, though). Maybe even his best in the CL.
I still wouldn’t trade him for any other keeper.
Excellent eddie , thought this thread would be busier with all the humble pie on offer
There was a group that thought he was never good enough and the coaches and Ederson didn't bother working on any weaknesses because he was good enough with his feet, but apparently his footwork had got worse. All nonsense.He's been great, and thankfully made a big difference. I'm not sure where the humble pie should come from though, because I think everyone can see that he's upped his game, which is all that anyone ever wanted.
Even those who had faith in him must admit that his recent performances have been better than those of 3-4 months ago?
To a great extent the thread was made up of two groups of people:
1. Those who had faith he'd come good.
2. Those who thought he needed to do better.
Well done to Ed, he's been pretty much perfect.