Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:CynicalGooner wrote:Err, why would we do that?
someone sensible: VETO that shit
Actually you know what, Almunia is still better than flaps. They are both hopeless. Hows the irish midget keeper getting along?
Szczesny is no VDS. His last f*ck up was not even 8 days back. I get surprised when people talk up as though there is a million mile between Fabianski and Szczesny .Fabianski's last game for us was no great shakes but in the mean time Szczesny has had a few howlers himself and the two of them were in the last two weeks . Caught flapping at a regulation cross and cost us the match against Fulham while last week let in a simple ball to far post by committing himself far too early. His distribution is still as awful as it was last season and the less we talk about his kicking the better. Szczesny hasn't covered himself in glory this season to be overhyping him to moon.
I think some people are a bit harsh on Sneezy.
He's made two high profile and costly errors this season but I don't see that as a particularly high amount for a GK, especially a young one.
By my reckoning every GK in the Prem will make between 2 and 5 major errors per season that cost their side a goal. That's just part and parcel of the pressure of their job.
Even the best GKs like Pepe Reina sometimes let the ball squirm under their body. That's just football.
We're over half way through the season and Shez has played 21 Prem games plus countless other cup games and amongst all those games he's only cost us two goals. That sounds pretty normal to me - especially when you compare it to the number of penalties our CBs give away!
He's obviously nowhere near the finished article at his age and I agree that his distribution is still not right but to say that he's not significantly better than our other GKs is harsh imo.
Sometimes we tend to forget the number of times he's put in superb match-winning saves and yet we remember the cock-ups.