David de Gea | 2011-14 Performances

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He almost did the splits for that save, I've no idea how he reached it.

It wasn't as good as his one last season from Mata (but then, that's quite possibly the finest bit of goalkeeping in the last however many years), but it was still extraordinary... both their players and our players reactions told you as much.
 
Thought he had a decent game. Can't blame him for either goal as they were both very well taken. He would be disappointed that he got a finger to the second but couldn't do enough to turn it away. Great save from Mata to stop the potential third goal.
 
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Oh my! Johnny Evans. That's not they way to protect your goal.
 
He's really having a great season. If RVP for some reason starts to "slow down" now, DDG could very well become our POTY.

Now THAT would shut up the retarded critics, wouldn't it?
 
Thought he was quite good last night. The Hazard goal was just a sublime strike and couldn't be stopped. Getting a finger on Ramires' shot was quite impressive and the final save was absolute world class. That said - he definitely had an off night with this distribution.
 
As we thought.. DDG is proving his worth and getting used to the PL quickly, his quirky feet saves sometimes look unreal, but I think he is capable of them 'extraordinary saves', like Schemicael was, where a difficult shot is concerned, I'm usually quite sure he has it. For me, its the smaller things like communcication, control of box, arial etc etc but its all good so far :drool:
 
Magnus said:
Best goalie in the world
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Behave yourself man! As much as I backed him when he was getting unfair abuse saying the is a nonsense.

Ps on a side note his save against Silva using his shoulder was my Favorite.
 
Magnus said:
Best goalie in the world
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I fully agree with you - De Gea would have been a shoe-in for this accolade if we could defend as good as 08/09 circa. The way we defend these days is not good enough and we expose him to shots from different ranges making him work unnecessarily.

I don't know what's happened to Evra, he's always missing when his side of the pitch is under attack. We are also the only team who do not defend high-line. We have caught opponents the least in the league with offside traps.....We defend by backing up to the edge of the box where any good shot can surprise our goalie!
 
United vs Leeds from 1998 on Setanta, Schmeichel beaten at his near post. Commentator says "Question marks remain over the Man United goalkeeper." Have to laugh sometimes.
 
De Gea is class. He is going to get better and better. I hope we stick with him and all this paper talk about Begovic etc is pure crap.
 
goldenballs said:
He is not to blame for it, but every shot is savable.
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On that basis every shot is block-able, so technically every goal is the fault of every player, and every single player is capable of blocking the shot.

That makes no sense.

Modric's goal was as good a strike as you will see.
 
Big-Red said:
United vs Leeds from 1998 on Setanta, Schmeichel beaten at his near post. Commentator says "Question marks remain over the Man United goalkeeper." Have to laugh sometimes.
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He was going through a bad patch at the time.
 
kouroux said:
To think some criticized his use of legs to make saves
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I don't get that. It seems strange, he's keeping them out and I can't think of a time where his leg saves has cost us a goal (I may be wrong) they even did it after the one yesterday on ITV. The Commentary were going on about it being unorthodox and different when if he used his hands he wouldn't of got near it I'd imagine.
 
Well, to be fair, it's not exactly butterfly goalkeeping but his ability to make kick saves is still incredible.
 
Oggmonster said:
I don't get that. It seems strange, he's keeping them out and I can't think of a time where his leg saves has cost us a goal (I may be wrong) they even did it after the one yesterday on ITV. The Commentary were going on about it being unorthodox and different when if he used his hands he wouldn't of got near it I'd imagine.
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The criticism was specially evident in the first leg vs Madrid when he made that crazy save.I'd understand if the saves are made thanks to pure luck but they aren't.It's a great thing to know in a split second which body part to use to stop the goal.
 
Article on F365 comparing GK stats showing DDG to be the best in the league this season.

The debate as to who is the best Premier League goalkeeper has become more hotly contested this season as some number ones have come to the fore while the form of others has dropped.

In this piece, WhoScored.com will examine the vital statistics of those mad enough to play between the posts, looking closely at a battle for the England jersey that may not be as one-sided as most had believed.

A quick glance at the WhoScored ratings shows that the top keeper in the league this season is David De Gea, with an average rating of 6.99 based on various aspects of his performances, and on closer inspection of his stats it isn't hard to see why. It is easy to say that the Spaniard will concede fewer goals (at 31, the third-fewest in the division) because of the quality in front of him but league leaders Manchester United have actually conceded more shots per game (13.1) than each of the rest of the top seven, and even Southampton.

Many have pin-pointed the first leg against Real Madrid as the night that De Gea really came of age in a United shirt but in truth he had already been enjoying an impressive campaign up to that point. In his 20 league starts, the 22-year-old has faced 90 shots on target and made 70 saves. His overall save success rate is 77.8% - the best of any first-choice keeper in the league - with Swansea's reserve stopper Gerhard Tremmel saving just over 80% of the shots he has faced in 12 appearances.
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The article goes on to talk about some of the other top performers, and how Hart has been pretty shit this season. Good reading overall:D

http://www.football365.com/faves/8562344/Who-Scored
 
But De Gea is rubbish I thought.

I note how it say that he should concede fewer goals because of the quality in front of him, yet he was getting the blame earlier in the season for letting in so many goals.

He's quality & no mistake, long may he stand between the posts at United!
 
Regardless of the facts and the stats, he is not good enough and we should cut our loses. He's shit.

Probably there will be another year or two until the British media will finally realize how good he is. Definitely the best in the league this season.
 
Rado_N said:
Trust Canada to make something cool sound gay.
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It' a hockey goalie style. You have stand up, butterfly and flop. Not many flop goalies around these days in hockey. Butterfly style is popular these days because most goalies are taller than they used to be and can coverer the lower part of the net bye spreading (ya I know hahaha) their pads (hahaha agian) post to post and still be tall enough to cover a lot of the upper portion.
 
Most people except a goalie to be excellent in every area and with out a weakness. Truth is that their are very few GK around in the world like that. It no different than players in other positions. Near perfection is rare. DeGea one weakness is crosses. At the moment he's not at the level Van der Sar was for his command off the line playing like a sweeper. But, he's still very young for GK and ha done very well.
 
He's also well ahead of the pack on the Prem's EA Sports Player Performance Index. He averages 16 (points?) per game compared to Cech on 14 and Lindegaard, Lloris and Hart on 13. No idea what's being measured, but when two completely different ranking systems agree to that extent it's got to mean something.

whoscored.com covers the 5 major European leagues. Overall De Gea is ranked 6th, although only one keeper, Iraizoz of Bilbao, is more than 0.02 ranking points ahead of him. (To all intents and purposes he's in a 5 way tie for second.)
 
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