England Keeper Has Won The Golden Glove in Euro 2021! Here's His Story
Rumours, Rumours, Rumours, we just can’t live without them! Here is our pick Golden Glove for UEFA European Championship which is … …. Jordan Pickford! Current latest rumours are that former goalkeeper and coach, Chris Kirkland of LIVERPOOL, oh yes you hear it right, Liverpool fans, he might be signed.
In soccer, Goal Keepers tent to be under unrated through the games. For example, having a good striker like Harry Kane and Sterling to only perform for England does not only lead the team to victory, but with good positioning defenders, overperform strikers, and overperform goal keepers as well. Here. This article is to all the goalkeepers out there.
Here are stats from UEFA EURO website,
- Most clean sheets
This phrase meaning after the game is finished, the opponent team without scoring a goal then it would count as single clean sheet, the more the merrier. Jordan Pickford (England) with 5 games. That’s just impressive clean of opponent taking zero scores, England let Ukraine at Quarter Finals, Denmark at Semi-finals. The rest are Thibaut (Belgium) with 3 and Donnarumma (Italy). This would mean a lot of mentality, consistent and discipline to take England to Finals.
- Fewest goals conceded
This phrase meaning after the game is finished, the opponent score how many goals towards this goalkeeper of the team, the lesser the better the team. Jordan Pickford successfully defended 11 games with 1 score only for the opponent score by the opponent. In paper, makes him the best goalkeepers you can watch from UEFA EURO. The rest, goalkeeper got 3 scores by the opponents, Belgium, Thibaut Courtois and Donnarumma(Italy)
- Most punches
This phrase meaning the keeper punches out the ball in the box. This would mean not too much big of the deal but on paper looks very good on the keeper and successfully defended the score as well. Jordan comes 2ndwith 6 punches, behind North Macedonia, with 9 punches.
- Penalty saves
Unfortunately, Jordan did not be the top in this area, highest amount of saves with 7! Damn this teams are really good, Switzerland’s Sommer with and Spain’s Unai Simon and Italy’s Donnarumma. Jordan have to try harder on this area the next round.
- Most saves
This phrase meaning the most amount of saves throughout this tournament, the highest is good for the team. Yann Sommer, Switzerland with 21 saves, Turkey, Denmark and Wales has 18. Too bad Jordan did not even named in this category.
Or ? Let us know in the comment section which Goalkeeper would u think they would get Golden Glove for UEFA EURO 2020.