31 | Ederson - 2024/25

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Did all he could with a poor defence in front of him, some nice saves.
 
He’s a top-class keeper and always has been. Some will love seeing him making all these saves, personally I hate it. Like all these top keepers, they get all their plaudits when they’re diving around here, there and everywhere. The likes of the donut thief and Pickford have made careers out of being the keeper behind a shite defence. I much preferred it when Eddie had fuck all to do every game and a few cranks would come on here and slag him off for conceding in a 4-1 win.
 
Like I've said, Ederson in the last year and a half has been phenomenal. He is the most improved GK in my eyes, and I criticized him plenty the years before. He has worked on his weaknesses (1v1, slow reflexes), kept his strengths (amazing positioning, very secure, superb with his feet), and he is definitely a top 3 GK for the last year and a half.
 
samuelyeboah said:
I believe today makes ederson's penalty record (excluding shootouts) for city to be 1 save in the last 31 penalties faced. ALL other 30 went in - not even a single one missed the target/hit the post. This stat stretches back 7 years
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Update - 32 of the last 33.
 
It’s better to just assume any penalty is a goal unless Ortega is in net.

Other than that, he saved our arses a few times tonight…again!
 
The assumption on here he should be saving penalties is just crazy. Penalties by their very design are meant to heavily favour the taker and not meant to be saved. The two pens tonight were well taken, nobody saves them. He saved us 1v1 a couple of times tonight, had no chance with any of the goals. He's the reason why it was only a 4-1 thumping and not a humiliating 6-1.
 
ninjamonkey said:
The assumption on here he should be saving penalties is just crazy. Penalties by their very design are meant to heavily favour the taker and not meant to be saved. The two pens tonight were well taken, nobody saves them. He saved us 1v1 a couple of times tonight, had no chance with any of the goals. He's the reason why it was only a 4-1 thumping and not a humiliating 6-1.
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Helps if you dive the right way .
 
ninjamonkey said:
The assumption on here he should be saving penalties is just crazy. Penalties by their very design are meant to heavily favour the taker and not meant to be saved. The two pens tonight were well taken, nobody saves them. He saved us 1v1 a couple of times tonight, had no chance with any of the goals. He's the reason why it was only a 4-1 thumping and not a humiliating 6-1.
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My friend I don't think you understand the HUGE difference between 78% (the expected percentage of converting a penalty) and 97% (the expected percentage of converting a penalty against ederson). you are talking saving 1 out of 33 and saving 7 out of 33.
 
ninjamonkey said:
The assumption on here he should be saving penalties is just crazy. Penalties by their very design are meant to heavily favour the taker and not meant to be saved. The two pens tonight were well taken, nobody saves them. He saved us 1v1 a couple of times tonight, had no chance with any of the goals. He's the reason why it was only a 4-1 thumping and not a humiliating 6-1.
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The goals conceded were not in any way Ederson’s fault. The score line however with us only scoring one goal at the other end is why it is a thumping. The match should have been all over at half time. So bloody frustrating.
 
There's no getting anyway from the fact his penalty stats are abysmal, whether that's all down to him or he's unlucky in that the quality of the opposition penalties are higher than the norm. The fact remains that anytime we concede a pen it's near enough a certain goal with him between the sticks.

He is saving us from open play quite regularly but I'm guessing that's just more noticeable just due to sheer amount of chances we're giving away currently.
 
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