Black = goal from open play (7)
Yellow = goal from second ball (Sevilla's 3rd) (1)
Red = goal from setpiece (1 free kick, 1 penalty, 1 header (Sevilla's 2nd)) (3)
I put together a little map with the positions from which Karius has conceded goals this season.
If you look at that map, what would you say is the main issue? The goalkeeper? The position from which our defence allows opposition players to get shots away? Overall defending?
Look from how close the vast majority of the goals he conceeds are, within 10 yards, all very central (bar Sane's goal) and half of them around the 6 yard box.
Looking back at the 11 goals he has conceded so far this season, he should have done better for two: Spartak's free kick and Sane's goal. The rest of them were clean strikes or (virtually) unsaveable because of bad defending (Think Vardy's goal, Silva's, GĂźndogan's, Ben Yedder's, ...).
Currently his numbers don't look good, but please look past the numbers that are used to describe how good or bad a goalkeeper supposedly is.
This is not to prove that Karius is a brilliant goalkeeper, but that there are other issues (defensively and in midfield) than our goalkeepers (that includes Mignolet).
« Last Edit: Jan 16, 2018 11:16:57 pm by Danzel »
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