Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Best Premier League goalkeepers



Lamine Yamal made history for Barcelona against Real Madrid on Saturday night / Quality Sport When asked what Real Madrid's players had said to him after scoring in Barcelona's 4-0 thrashing on Saturday night

Lamine Yamal grinned to show his braces and said: "They didn't know I had a right foot." The best young player in the world used his weaker side to blast the ball above Andriy Lunin for Barcelona's third of a night to remember. Yamal called the Catalan giants the best team on the planet, and few have been better than him in that elite setup. 


2. Kenan(Juventus) Kenan



, Juventus' current number ten, has a strong relationship with perhaps his most legendary predecessor in that shirt, Alessandro Del Piero. When the teenage Turk was told that the Italian icon celebrated his first goal at San Siro by sticking his tongue out, Yildiz nodded: "I didn't know that. 



I'll have to try to replicate it." When the 19-year-old came off the bench with Juve trailing 4-2 to Inter on Sunday, tributes would not have been at the forefront of his thinking. 

Yildiz kept his tongue in his mouth after halving the deficit before opening up wide once he made it 4-4 in the 82nd minute

. 1. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) Robert Lewandowski Robert Lewandowski has scored ten goals in 16 games against Real Madrid in his career, including two on Saturday While Real Madrid's number nine toiled offside, Robert Lewandowski stayed within the laws of the game to score twice for the visitors. 

The quality of the Pole's performance was such that he came away disappointed by not bagging a hat-trick. That regret was short-lived on a glorious night for La Liga's early leaders. 

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• 3 best WSL teams: October 2024 - ranked RANKED: 7 best players of Premier League Gameweek 9 Gameweek 9 littered with late goals and dramatic comebacks There was impressive performers on both sides of the 2-2 draw between Arsenal and Liverpool Cole Palmer once again lit up Chelsea's Stamford Bridge By Grey Whitebloom | 28 Oct 2024 Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer were both on target this weekend Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer were both on target this weekend / Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images | Ed Sykes/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty Images The final weekend of Premier League football in October fittingly produced plenty of late scares. 

Half of the ten fixtures had the result decisively changed by stoppage-time goals. Controversy and calamity was dished out in equal measure as shot-stopper, who rebuffed seven efforts to ensure that Evanilson's stoppage-time header snatched a point for Bournemouth. Cherries boss Andoni Iraola spoke for many when he admitted that Travers "kept us in the game when we were suffering". 5. Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford) Bryan Mbeumo Bryan Mbeumo celebrates a late winner for Brentford / Alex Pantling/GettyImages Always watch Brentford.

 As Thomas Frank grinned after a bonkers 4-3 victory over Ipswich Town on Saturday afternoon: "When we play, it is exciting." Premier League games involving the Bees this season produce a staggering average of four goals - most of those that Brentford score have something to do with Bryan Mbeumo. 

The capital club's reliable talisman delivered another brace at the Gtech, including a 96th-minute winner. 

4. Ibrahima Konate (Liverpool) Ibrahima Konate, Gabriel Martinelli Ibrahima Konate won most of his physical duels against Arsenal / Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/GettyImages While Virgil van Dijk was involved in more of the incidents which directly defined Liverpool's spirited 2-2 draw away to Arsenal on Sunday, Ibrahima Konate's assured display kept the visitors in a contest which enjoyable ebbed and flowed. The bruising centre-back was always on hand to cover the wandering Trent Alexander-Arnold, shutting Gabriel Martinelli out of much of the game with a typically full-blooded performance. 


3. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) Bukayo Saka Bukayo Saka made an opportune return from injury on Sunday / Marc Atkins/GettyImages Arsenal's unspoken mantra of getting the ball to Bukayo Saka at every given opportunity worked once again on Sunday. 

Upon his unexpected return from injury, the durable and dexterous forward showed Arsenal what they had been missing inside the opening ten minutes.


 Andy Robertson was writhing around in a knotted heap on the Emirates turf by the time Saka blasted the ball beyond Caoimhin Kelleher. 

The Scot never got to grips with Arsenal's youthful record breaker. 2. Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) Chris Wood, Anthony Elanga Chris Wood celebrated a well-taken brace on Friday night / Carl Recine/GettyImages One of the few people not queuing up to laud Chris Wood's prolific start to the season was the Kiwi striker himself. 

Nottingham Forest's talisman insists that he is a forward who relies upon service from his teammates, but Wood has certainly made the most of the chances that have come his way. 

The New Zealand international scored with both of his shots on target in Forest's 3-1 victory over Leicester City on Friday night. As many as 23 players have taken more shots than Wood this season but only two can boast more goals. 

1. Cole Palmer (Chelsea) Cole Palmer Cole Palmer couldn't help but smile during Chelsea's victory over Newcastle / Ryan Pierse/GettyImages Chelsea's reliance upon Cole Palmer was abundantly clear once again during Sunday's 2-1 victory over Newcastle United, as the bewitching playmaker left his indelible mark on both of the hosts' goals. But few teams in the world would not bend to the will of a player as talented as Palmer.

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