Crystal Palace are starting to look like a solid team under Roy Hodgson. Despite sitting in 10th place, the team are well and truly in the fight for fifth (Sky Sports).
Much of the team’s success can be attributed to the heroics of their Spanish shot-stopper, Vicente Guaita. The club posted a tweet celebrating Guaita’s heroics so far this season. Fans reminisced over some of his incredible stops. They discussed his brilliant stop against Wolves and his unbelievable save against Jamie Vardy. Others agreed that his positional play was top notch.
For god sake sort out his contract extension
— rob cranfield (@RobCranfield) December 9, 2019
That save from the header against Wolves, wow
— Yehuda Ankonina (@juda2121) December 9, 2019
And this one… #neverforget pic.twitter.com/3fA6hzCCPT
— Juha Lemmetti (@JuhaLemmetti) December 9, 2019
It’s his positional play that makes him so great. No need for worldy looking saves if you read and anticipate well. Reminds me of iker cassillas allot
— Christian (@ChristianEagle0) December 9, 2019
100%, I won’t pretend to know a bunch about goalkeeping but he always seems to get his body right behind the path of the shot, closes off the angle to goal well and reads crosses fantastically.
— CLH (@CabayeLovesHugs) December 9, 2019
Do you think Vicente Guaita is the best goalkeeper in the league?
Yes
No
Other fans believe he is up there with some of the best goalkeepers in the league, with another claiming that he is better than both David De Gea and Kepa Arrizabalaga.
3rd best keeper in the league
— Ethan (@Ayew_SZN) December 9, 2019
He is currently the best shot stopper in the #premierleague!
Post shot expected goals models predict an average PL GK would have conceded 3.47 more goals than #Guaita if they faced the same shots he has faced this year#Guaita has a save percentage 6.43% higher than expected!
— John Harrison (@Jhdharrison1) December 9, 2019
Best Spanish keeper in the league
— Cam (@CamUrbowicz32) December 9, 2019
What do we think?
Regardless of who the better goalkeeper is, Palace fans are clearly happy with the performances of Guaita this season. His continued form will be vital if Crystal Palace want to finish as high up the table as possible. Luckily for the supporters, the goalkeeper appears to be extremely comfortable when representing the Eagles.