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2022-23 Performances


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6.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
58
Clean sheets
25
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
2
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Should he have saved the Saka goal? Not a mistake but I expect him to.
 
For all the talk of Alisson and Ederson being so much better, in the PL this season they both have just one assist despite apparently being amazing at this, De Gea beats Alisson on high claims, has a much better save percentage than Ederson and a very similar one to Alisson (but we all know no one else is making some of the saves De Gea does), and Ederson and DDG are tied on 1 error leading to a goal.

Funnily enough, I assume Ederson’s was from his short pass while the team was under pressure.
His save percentage is shite.

17th out of 20 in 20/21
13th out of 20 in 21/22
12th out of 20 this season.

If he wasn't the world's best paid goalkeeper I'd be less critical but its ludicrous that he is. I'd rather we just got rid, the sheer amount of money we'd save on wages would be enough to get a decent gk.
 
Is he genuinely glued to his goal line? The amount of times he needed to come off and either punch or collect (and ironically the one time he punched is when he should have caught it). He invites too much pressure onto our back line.
 
My usual pop into this thread to say that he’s shite and is only getting a new contract because we can’t afford to buy a keeper on top of everything else.

That punch when he could have caught the ball on his line had me frothing at the mouth.
He had more than enough time and space to catch it, and his two handed punch went maybe 15 feet. It made no sense when the pressure was on his team.
 
That punch under no pressure whilst they were having wave after wave of attack was mad
It was standard ddg anyway, his kicking under pressure is troublesome, and he can't control the box. And lack of communication too.

Good shot stopper
 
Everytime the ball went to him, I shit myself. His distribution remains suspect....
 
Makes me sad to say but if we have the budget then we need to upgrade on him, ETH ball requires something else.
 
Suspect? His distribution today was launch it up to the Arsenal defenders so they can launch another attack.
That's not really what he did most of the time, though. Most of the time we tried to play out, and most of the time we lost the ball doing that. If he had launched it long every time we would have had a better chance today.
 
That was an embarrassment of a second half. All the old DDG bad habits were well on show tonighy. At one point I was convinced he was chained to his line as he refused to catch several floated balls near the six yard box. And what was that fecking catch about.

I was on board with keeping him on reduced wages but he was so bad today that I question that now.
 
Should he have saved the Saka goal? Not a mistake but I expect him to.

He's not set and is off his feet when the shot is taken, both his feet are off the ground as he moves, by the time he hits the ground again to dive it's too late.
 
There was a moment where he could've made a straight forward catch but hit it away like a volleyball. It was very strange.
 
There was a moment where he could've made a straight forward catch but hit it away like a volleyball. It was very strange.
I lost it with him at that point. I think his distribution has improved hugely and think he gets a bit of unfair stick but Arsenal were all over us building momentum and he had an easy chance to take some of that pressure off and he punched it. Cowardly.
 
That punch under no pressure whilst they were having wave after wave of attack was mad
It was standard ddg anyway, his kicking under pressure is troublesome, and he can't control the box. And lack of communication too.

Good shot stopper

Basically this for me, the punch was unforgivable.
 
There was a moment where he could've made a straight forward catch but hit it away like a volleyball. It was very strange.
Yeah that really pissed me off.

Could have sat on the ball and gave us 10 seconds to get our breathe back, keep possession.

Instead of punted it 10 yards and they just recycled another attack. Stuff like that makes such a difference. Ugh.
 
Couldn’t catch covid let alone an aerial ball. His lack of aerial ability fecks us every game and puts us under immense pressure.

Even teams like Arsenal are doing long throw ins against us as they know DDG isn’t going to claim feck all.
 
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Swap for Ramsdale and we win that game.
None of the goals were on him or saveable. Ramsdale isn't saving those goals.

Few jittery moments but let's be honest, the team were wank today and the fact the only complaints are about a punch shows he didn't really do anything wrong.
 
Good goalkeeper, a legend for the club, but i suspect he might be viewed as a bit of a weak link for a side that plays out from the back.

Shaw, Martinez and Varane I expect 99 times out of a 100 to play themselves out of a press. DDG and AWB, i am not so confident about.
 
None of the goals were on him or saveable. Ramsdale isn't saving those goals.

Few jittery moments but let's be honest, the team were wank today and the fact the only complaints are about a punch shows he didn't really do anything wrong.
Not about saves. Distribution and sweeping is on another level.
 
There was one ball that came to him in the second half and there was absolutely nobody near him and he punched it away, not very well either. He has to take some blame for the first goal also.

I am a big fan but his days are running out I feel.
 
Hoofed a ball unnecessarily straight out the sideline, played AWB into trouble before the equalizer, could/should have done better on Sakas goal, and completely unnecessarily punched a ball he should collect 10/10 times.
A good save on a close range shot (a shot a good GK should save tbf).

Should be a priority to strengthen the GK-position in the summer window, at least get proper competition.
 
Hoofed a ball unnecessarily straight out the sideline, played AWB into trouble before the equalizer, could/should have done better on Sakas goal, and completely unnecessarily punched a ball he should collect 10/10 times.
A good save on a close range shot (a shot a good GK should save tbf).

Should be a priority to strengthen the GK-position in the summer window, at least get proper competition.
Saka's goal?! :lol:
 
His chronic inability to move off his line or catch a ball with his hands are sending ripple effects through our team. It puts the team under so much unnecessary pressure, it's insane.
 
The modern game with its high press isn't suited to a keeper so limited with his feet.

An upgrade will be needed sooner rather than later and ETH will know this already.
 
I think today is a perfect example of what DDG is all about. Shit passing, doesn't dominate his area but makes some absolutely immense saves...I honestly go from "Sell him" to "How will we replace him" every match...
 
Don't understand why when he's booting it away under pressure it's always down the middle and floated which hardly gets to the half way line.
He did the same against palace. He has to hit the sides where opposition players need to move into...
 
I think today is a perfect example of what DDG is all about. Shit passing, doesn't dominate his area but makes some absolutely immense saves...I honestly go from "Sell him" to "How will we replace him" every match...
Same.

He makes us a bag of nerves not coming out for crosses.
 
Don't understand why when he's booting it away under pressure it's always down the middle and floated which hardly gets to the half way line.
He did the same against palace. He has to hit the sides where opposition players need to move into...
They also really fecks me off. Be better just launching it out for a throw in and relieve some pressure.
 
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