James Trafford - Burnley

Floyd

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I don't really follow Championship but I glanced at the table and saw Trafford at Burnley has conceded only NINE goals in 31 matches. Looked a bit more at his numbers. 21 clean sheets! xGOT faced 18,13. Meaning he should have conceded 18 goals as opposed to his 9.
Quick check on Onana, Alisson, Sanchez and Raya shows that they are conceding more or less the same as what's expected. Vicario has great numbers, but smaller sample size, only 12 matches due to injury. Ederson who's been criticized this season has decent stats.

Goals prevented
Vicario 2,93
Sanchez 1,1
Raya -0,14
Alisson 0,97
Onana 0,37
Ederson 1,83
Trafford 9,35 :eek:

Anyone been following this guy with the glorious last name, and can say something about his distribution, sweeping and handling of crosses? He's 197 cm, great height.
 
The Burnley side he is playing in are incredibly defensive, it is difficult to get high quality chances against them so the xG prevented is borne out of an accumulation of smaller saves rather than a succession of outstanding ones. He has still muffed a couple you would expect a keeper of his reputation to save but has generally been much better than his debut season in the PL where he was certifiably horrible.
 
Stobzilla said:
The Burnley side he is playing in are incredibly defensive, it is difficult to get high quality chances against them so the xG prevented is borne out of an accumulation of smaller saves rather than a succession of outstanding ones. He has still muffed a couple you would expect a keeper of his reputation to save but has generally been much better than his debut season in the PL where he was certifiably horrible.
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Thanks. I see his goals prevented last season was - 7,47, awful numbers. I really should have dug deeper:)
 
He has played really well in the few games I've seen of Burnley in the Championship this season, including saving two penalties against Sunderland when he performed some perfect shithousery especially prior to the 2nd one.

He is only 22 so has a lot more time to mature as a keeper. He was awful in the Premier League last season, must say I'm amazed he is supposedly 6 ft 4" it might be his build as I thought he was smaller and looked really weak aerially last year. I'm sure he was dropped towards the end of last season as well.

It was amazing that Burnley took him from City after a year on loan in League 1 with Bolton to be their first choice in the Premiership though.
 
cj_sparky said:
He has played really well in the few games I've seen of Burnley in the Championship this season, including saving two penalties against Sunderland when he performed some perfect shithousery especially prior to the 2nd one.

He is only 22 so has a lot more time to mature as a keeper. He was awful in the Premier League last season, must say I'm amazed he is supposedly 6 ft 4" it might be his build as I thought he was smaller and looked really weak aerially last year. I'm sure he was dropped towards the end of last season as well.

It was amazing that Burnley took him from City after a year on loan in League 1 with Bolton to be their first choice in the Premiership though.
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Kompany doing his former club a favour to ensure their PSR would carry on looking rosy. He cost quite a bit if I recall correctly, many people thought it was really dodgy, and then he was crap when he played.
 
Floyd said:
I don't really follow Championship but I glanced at the table and saw Trafford at Burnley has conceded only NINE goals in 31 matches. Looked a bit more at his numbers. 21 clean sheets! xGOT faced 18,13. Meaning he should have conceded 18 goals as opposed to his 9.
Quick check on Onana, Alisson, Sanchez and Raya shows that they are conceding more or less the same as what's expected. Vicario has great numbers, but smaller sample size, only 12 matches due to injury. Ederson who's been criticized this season has decent stats.

Goals prevented
Vicario 2,93
Sanchez 1,1
Raya -0,14
Alisson 0,97
Onana 0,37
Ederson 1,83
Trafford 9,35 :eek:

Anyone been following this guy with the glorious last name, and can say something about his distribution, sweeping and handling of crosses? He's 197 cm, great height.
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Wow, for some odd reason I viewed him (and remember him as such!) as quite a small/short guy in the PL last season :lol:

Not sure why my eyes were deceiving me like that.
 
He really struggled in the Premier League last season, but very few goalkeepers are ready to play at that level at 20 years old.

Burnley have a very good chance of going up, so if he's smart he will stick with them and give himself another crack at Premier League football next season.

He looks like the standout young English keeper around at the moment so I can see him playing for the national team in the next 12 months or so.
 
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