Great Saves or your favourite saves

SilentWitness said:
Most international keepers should be saving that. It was a good save but I'd be disappointed if my keeper didn't save it. In the video I posted above, Pickford makes 4 or 5 of the same save.
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I was thinking the same but the reaction of the players for me tells that it was a fantastic save. The disbelief of Baumgartner and then I heard the Austrian keeper also congratulated the keeper after he saved it. Wouldn't get those sort of reactions if it were a normal save.

The most incredible save I saw was Neuer v Walcott. It was a certain goal and seeing Neuer claw the ball out was amazing.



Favorite save? Can't think of any other of the top of my head so VDS v Anelka :lol:
 
hasanejaz88 said:
I was thinking the same but the reaction of the players for me tells that it was a fantastic save. The disbelief of Baumgartner and then I heard the Austrian keeper also congratulated the keeper after he saved it. Wouldn't get those sort of reactions if it were a normal save.
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Probably because if he didn't save it then the game goes to ET.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
The save last night was absolutely world class, why is everyone so desperate to play it down? He was moving to his left as the cross came in, to get a hand to a ball headed back where he came from was sensational.
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Yeah it's weird - people focusing on the height of it and completely ignoring the fact that it bounced (so the keeper has to react incredibly late - whilst moving the other way)

It's an unbelievable save and I totally disagree that most keepers save it - I actually think most keepers don't even move.
 
Anyway on-topic, for non-United saves that haven't been mentioned, Kasper Schmeichel from Mason Mount in the FA Cup final is up there:

 
Annihilate Now! said:
Yeah it's weird - people focusing on the height of it and completely ignoring the fact that it bounced (so the keeper has to react incredibly late - whilst moving the other way)

It's an unbelievable save and I totally disagree that most keepers save it - I actually think most keepers don't even move.
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Completely agree- it was an absolutely fantastic save. You get close range, powerful shots that sort of bounce off the keeper, and in that situation I think they get too much credit. But this was going wide of him, at pace, from very close. Unbelievable save.
 
Dave had so, so many. One of the lesser remembered ones was I think Giaccherini heading it into the corner in the 2-1 Januzaj breakthrough game for Sunderland and Dave somehow saving it, it was an absurd save. In the Madrid away tie in 2013 he had a ridiculous pair of saves from Coentrao and an amazing one from Ronaldo with his feet. Diving saves are amazing of course but Dave had a load of unbelievable feet saves too that no other keeper gets to.
 
Jan Koller vs Ballack:
(at 5:10)

Koller moved into goal after Lehmann's red card (can be seen at the start of the video) and kept a clean sheet while he was in goal and Dortmund was two players down. Was a truly memorable performance, catching (!) some crosses and shots, and for comedic effect completely weak at throwing the ball :lol:
 
bringbackbebe said:
Yes, the same! For some reason it's blacked out for me and I can't see it. Region issue?
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Could be yeah. It was a great save, even if it was for City. It's wierd, I can only really find it on that compilation video from sky.
 
SilentWitness said:
Most international keepers should be saving that. It was a good save but I'd be disappointed if my keeper didn't save it. In the video I posted above, Pickford makes 4 or 5 of the same save.
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The video titled "Pickford's greatest premier league saves", not "Pickford's routine saves that most international keepers should be making".

It was a great save. Most really good goalkeepers will have a handful in the same sort of class that we can build a highlight reel with if we were able to go through all of their games, but it's the big occasion ones that get wider recognition.
 
Demyanenko_square_jaw said:
The video titled "Pickford's greatest premier league saves", not "Pickford's routine saves that most international keepers should be making".

It was a great save. Most really good goalkeepers will have a handful in the same sort of class that we can build a highlight reel with if we were able to go through all of their games, but it's the big occasion ones that get wider recognition.
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You could probably make longer highlight reels of ones like that keepers don't save.
 
Demyanenko_square_jaw said:
The video titled "Pickford's greatest premier league saves", not "Pickford's routine saves that most international keepers should be making".

It was a great save. Most really good goalkeepers will have a handful in the same sort of class that we can build a highlight reel with if we were able to go through all of their games, but it's the big occasion ones that get wider recognition.
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I think the fact that he makes 4 or 5 of them in the highlight package show that it's not as world class as has been made out and it's a good save but not greatest of all time worthy that some are peddling. Again, it's a save that most international keepers should be making, albeit a good one.
 
Tim Howard

There's one in here from Scholes that takes a wicked deflection and he saves it with his boot.

Then the one against Southampton, that's up there with Seaman's save for me.



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Schmeichel



Coupet

 
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JinnerJamie said:


I would say this was the best save ever :lol:
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Based. The save's difficulty should be based on the probability of the shot crossing the line — it did cross the line but he still managed to save it. Genius!
 
My favourite save off all time is De Gea vs. Everton in the last minute at Old Trafford. I've never been at a game where a non-penalty save was as wildly celebrated as that save was - whilst also being in disbelief that he somehow managed to save it.
 
You could probably make ten minute video on this subject just featuring Brad Friedel against us
 
This is probably Shagger's best:



Last couple of angles show it properly.

But this is my favourite:

 


Always loved this one, not as spectacular as a lot of the others, but when considering all of the circumstances.

Buffon's international debut (at 19) in a high-pressure World Cup playoff, where he comes on after Pagliuca gets injured, in a game that really should not have gone ahead. Farcical, unplayable, poor visibility conditions for such a match, and both teams have understandably struggled to create clean chances, so he's not had the chance to get much of a feel for the mudbath surface until this shot. He makes it look easy, but I think plenty of keepers would have been caught off guard in those same circumstances against a clever, well-executed first-touch shot like that. The play starts at about 1:20.
 
Tarrou said:
I reckon most professional keepers would have saved that shot the Turkish keeper kept out last night

some saves just look good for the cameras

good save, nothing out of the ordinary IMO
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Was 0.40 on post shot xG, so if that's accurate you're right, it's saved 60% of the time.

The save from Arnautovic's one on one was considerably more difficult if we trust the FBref model, 0.73 / 27%. Think they use Opta

Edit: I'm now finding completely different numbers elsewhere. Statsbomb had it as 0.78/22%, the guy behind the xGphilosophy account on twitter had it as 0.94/6%.

With such wildly fluctuating numbers I know that's one stat to disregard from now on! :lol: Post shot xG is much more in it's infancy compared to regular old xG.

Personally think that's the kind of save an in form De Gea might well have made based off his goalkeeping style. He had a tendency to stand up and wait a split second longer than some other 'keepers before deciding what to do with his limbs from close-in efforts. It has it's updsides and downsides. For situations like this chance it looks calm and zen-like as if you're slowing down time, and you need to do that to make the save, reacting to the flight of the ball before sticking your arm out. In other situations it can mean you're too late to react. I think a lot of 'keepers go almost too early here with their hands giving themselves no chance to react to the bounce and dive under it, many more than that are simply caught flat-footed.
 
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That series of saves where De Gea ended Alexis Sanchez's career as a top attacking player.
 
I remember Gregory Coupet(Lyon) making some outrages saves, Mike Maignan also did something incredible against Genoa this season. Y'all should look that one up
 
Nico87 said:
You could probably make ten minute video on this subject just featuring Brad Friedel against us
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Peruzzi - up there with Schemichel's save and that Turkish keeper's one.



Schmeichel - he was just awesome.

 
Been through the list and no one has yet mentioned the greatest save ever the great Gordon Banks of the even greater pele World Cup 1970
 
Oranges038 said:
Coupet

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Didn't remember this one, it's so bizarre and great at the same time. First the ludicrous attempt at avoiding a backpass and the subsequent point blank save of Rivaldo's header. Maybe not the "greatest", but incredibly fun save.
 
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Jerzy Dudek in Champions League Final 2005 Match saves & Penalties.

I love the way he was dancing before every penalty was taken & i dont understand why more goalkeepers dont do that and try to put off the penalty taker.
 
DJ Jeff said:
Dave had so, so many. One of the lesser remembered ones was I think Giaccherini heading it into the corner in the 2-1 Januzaj breakthrough game for Sunderland and Dave somehow saving it, it was an absurd save. In the Madrid away tie in 2013 he had a ridiculous pair of saves from Coentrao and an amazing one from Ronaldo with his feet. Diving saves are amazing of course but Dave had a load of unbelievable feet saves too that no other keeper gets to.
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You said it, there could be a YT clip that solely displayed DDG's feet saves.
 
Oranges038 said:
He was brilliant in Euro 96, I think I remember that save. Was it this save at around 2.20? Footage isn't great.

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That's probably it. Just a random memory from 28 years ago (I watched it live on TV).

I didn't try to find the footage or expected someone to find the footage as I wasn't even sure if it was a super save or just an average save :D

Edit: obviously not that one, Netherlands wore orange top and white short.
 
Karel Podolsky said:
That's probably it. Just a random memory from 28 years ago (I watched it live on TV).

I didn't try to find the footage or expected someone to find the footage as I wasn't even sure if it was a super save or just an average save :D
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Weird how you can remember stuff like that.

There's one I remember but I can't find, I think it was Bogdan Lobont or Sebastian Frey in Serie A, ball took a wicked deflection and he was going one way and dived across and plucked it out of the top corner.

Edit: found it, was Lobont in CL vs AC Milan.

At 2 mins.


 
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calodo2003 said:
You said it, there could be a YT clip that solely displayed DDG's feet saves.
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I remember during his absolute golden period under LVG he had a Messi like stat where he was just miles ahead of every other GK in the world in overperforming his XG (or whatever the GK equivalent is). For a while there when a player went through 1v1 on him I was usually expecting him to save it. Such a pity an utterly amazing player's peak coincided with a trough for us and then he declined so much later that he won't be remembered half as well as he should be. We conceded under 30 league goals in 16-17 and 17-18 with what really was a very very average defence. Any other GK and we would have conceded 50+ in 15-16 in LVG's meltdown season.
 
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