When Real Madrid beat Liverpool in the Champions League final a few weeks ago, their goalkeeper, former Chelsea man Thibaut Courtois, got a lot of praises for his heroics in the game and a lot of United supporters used this performance as an example that “you don’t need to be a modern goalkeeper in order to be good at football in 2022”. It shouldn’t have to be one or the other. Plus, you can be a modern goalkeeper and still be good at making saves. Situations like the Diaz goal is an example of goalkeeping fundamentals that he doesn’t have and the same can be said about the multiple times over the years he hasn’t covered his own post, doesn’t make himself big when he does try to close the opposition, his fragility in set pieces and the lack of command that he has in his own box. This led to Liverpool scoring in the early moments of the game and United never even had a chance to settle.Ī lot of the Spaniard’s defenders tend to gaslight with the argument that his critics want David to dribble past the opposition like he was prime Ronaldinho, which is clearly not true and is used as a way to avoid an honest conversation about De Gea’s virtues and flaws. The first goal that Colombian starlet Luis Diaz scored against United in the 4-0 defeat back on April of this year is a great example of what I’m saying: one of the biggest flaws of De Gea’s game is his incapacity to get off his line and close down the opposition’s forwards, which gives them enough time to take a shot.
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