Once his english gets better, he be grand. He communicated good with the defence while at Athletico IF I remember correctly.
David de Gea | 2011-14 Performances
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Once his english gets better, he be grand. He communicated good with the defence while at Athletico IF I remember correctly.
Undoubtedly. Can someone explain what actually happened there, I kind of glazed over before there were any replays.
Basically De Gea took the goal kick to Rio who wasnt looking. It was a dangerous pass and the crowd shouted "man on". Rio spasticated and just kicked the ball wildly back to De Gea which went out for a corner
The corner was piss poorly defended and they scored number 4.
I thought De Gea may have prevented the corner to be honest maybe by stretching himself and forcing a throw-in as you do.
Only because there's a lot of misguided belief that he's new and vulnerable - some of the attempts on goal have been almost comical in their naiivety with players queueing up to emulate Beckham's 60 yarder vs Wimbledon. Yet some journos/commentators are pointing out to us that we have conceded more shots than a relegation team. Our defence does need the proverbial kick up the arse but not to the extent that these silly stats show. Oh, and we have had one or two injuries at the back. Not having a go at your post, just the idiot journos who love to keep us enlightened.
I'm not sure the stats are all that misleading. The Grauniad had stats on shots saved by Hart and De Gea so far this season. They'd both faced the same amount of shots from outside the box (18) but DDG had faced over three times as many from inside the box (18 vs 5). And that was before yesterday's game!
Well good, because you're completely wrong in your assessment. As Pogue says, there's nothing misleading in the statistics. There was after the Tottenham game, not now after our NINTH league game of the season when we've consistently allowed the opposition a large number of genuine goal scoring opportunties in virtually every single one of them.
I can't believe people still bring up the "people shoot from far off" excuse. De Gea really should not be as active and involved as he's had to be. Sometimes he must feel he's back at Atletico Madrid!
Yeah he must be wondering what the feck's going on. Moving to a club with the names at the back we have, he surely can't have imagined being worked this hard.
Nonsense!
When the ball left Silva's feet, he was around 2 - 3 metres from De Gea.
A man bearing on you like that, you try to make yourself look bigger. Some goalkeepers do a butterfly like one sees in the NHL (knees together, hands off to the side). That works if the shot is put straight at you, but not always in football because the target is bigger.
De Gea spread himself, and from 2-3 metres out, I defy you to get down quickly enough on a daisy-cutter fired that quickly.
Nutmegs look bad, but that doesn't mean they are all preventable.
Nutmegs in situations like that are hardly ever preventable, that's the whole point of an attacking player attempting that - if he manages to aim accurately, there's very little a goalkeeper can do.
He was brilliant against Liverpool. MOM performance. Against City, it was more of a case of being let down by the defenders. But he is a star in the making. As Fergie wud say, NO QUESTION.
Only at fault for the last goal and by then who cared?
Not much you can expect the keeper to do when the attackers are given the freedom of our penalty area.
Not much you can expect the keeper to do when the attackers are given the freedom of our penalty area.
Bravo. Some common sense.
Craig Gordon would have kept the score down i'm sure...
He saved a couple of certain goals, and quite frankly I couldn't care less if he should have saved Dzeko's goals. How many times should a keeper be forced to save from a one-on-one? He already denied Dzeko twice before that.
Also, isn't this discussion dead by now? He's clearly shown himself to be a top young goalkeeper, and is only going to get better. Sorry papers, but you're not going to get any more change out of this particular crusade.
The one thing he'll need improving on is his work in the area, and possibly his command. In every other aspect he's as good as they come.
Also, isn't this discussion dead by now? He's clearly shown himself to be a top young goalkeeper, and is only going to get better. Sorry papers, but you're not going to get any more change out of this particular crusade.
The one thing he'll need improving on is his work in the area, and possibly his command. In every other aspect he's as good as they come.
If DDG had truly been at fault, rest assured that the papers would have leapt on it like they've done with every error he's made so far. The fact that they haven't tells the true story of De Gea's afternoon - he was abandoned by his colleagues.
I said he could have saved it ... that's different from should have saved it. Seen nutmeg attempted shots saved. seen attempted nutmeg shots scored.
In this case de Gea gave himself absolutely no chance of saving a nutmeg shot because his legs were too wide ...made it a simple shot. He was too static ... he would have had a better chance had he been moving more towards Silva.
Anyway, point I was making is that if he's to be lauded as a truly great keeper he'll have to be saving stuff like that occasionally.
BTW, my other peeve .. the over-rating of Reina ... I see he was at fault for the Norwich equalizer.
Ho ho ho. But if you want to play that game I'd say he would have done better on the 4th (he's longer) and would possibly have swatted the crossgoal header that Lescott turned back onto Dzeko's knee.
On the Silva nutmeg ... he's have given himself more chance as he's excellent on one on ones.
Don't think he would have let the sixth push his hand aside.
But hey, carry on folks.
Just calling it as I see it ...
Jesus christ.
Pondlife you seem to talk a lot of absolute bollocks about goalkeepers.
You do know that De Gea and Gordon are the same height right? They are both 6ft 4in.
He is either gay for Gordon or he is Gordon's family member. He seems to support Gordon no matter what and adamantly still believes he is the best GK in the league.
Point taken but still how far a difference could it be given two people are the same height?
Whooooooosh 
I reckon MaroonPondlife is one of FranklyVulgar's alt accounts on here...
hahaahah
The same Craig Gordon that has not played a competitive game in god knows how long, and is too busy "analysing" Scotland games on sportscene.
...and funnily enough, FranklyVulgar, who I went through the apprenticeship at he same time, is pretty much spot on with his analysis iirc.
Don't know what that says about him, I, us or you.
a clean sheet for him today...
Needs to baulk up.
His handling was very good today, held every shot that was fired at him.
Big fecking Dave
Baulk?
Good today, deserves a more solid defence and midfield in front of him.
He'll be delighted with the clean sheet. Real confidence boost.
8 - David de Gea is the only keeper to have made 8+ saves and kept a clean sheet in a PL game this season (today and 22nd August). Hero - Opta
Great victory in a very difficult stadium!! The team worked very well... We need to keep in this form! - De Gea
Also... did the cameraman cut to his girlfriend in the crowd? (Round 89-90th min)
Great victory in a very difficult stadium!! The team worked very well... We need to keep in this form! - De Gea
Also... did the cameraman cut to his girlfriend in the crowd? (Round 89-90th min)
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