Subject: What a SAVE!!!!

Another great save was made this time by Bogdan Lobonţ(Ajax and Romania) in a Champions League game against AC Milan.

that was over the line

Dudek's double save is one of the best saves ever

dudek used to pull off quality saves pretty regularly, same for reina. They just make lots of mistakes too :P a bit like me, except everything hit at at me from further than 5 yards away would always go in

mate please look at the save AGAIN lol

he scoops it back and over - making it a world class save and not lucky :)

Goram's save was awesome ! :)

i met him last year on holiday , true gent and a hero of mines from when i was young :)

well no because he's clearly just moving his arm up so he has a chance of stopping it from going in, he had no idea it was going to go up and over the bar like that or that the ball would even be there for him to know to do that

not gonna chat with ye anymore amigo lol

im right , you are wrong - easy as peas lol :)

but you're not because he wouldnt be able to repeat the save if he was in the same situation again and again, hence making it luck, not skill

yeah just like every thunder blast of a goal. No skill involved in that just pure luck. Its called instinct!

instinct! Thats exactly what i've been bloomin saying. It wasnt that great, most keepers could do it, (the getting their arm to it bit), i've done it, i've seen it done by the other keepers, but where it lands is completely of the keepers control.

no its not. Im a keeper also. You stick your arm out yes but your hand is in a certain position. How many times have you had people say "how did you turn that round the post?" your answer is "dunno it just happens". Thats what makes you, I and others better keepers than other people - it is in built. It just happens! It natural instinct.

turning it around the post is much easier. With this, i highly doubt he knew where the ball even was when he stuck his arm out to save it, probably just did it as instict to cover a bit more of the goal just on the off chance he was right and he was.

Like the fulham west ham game yesterday, green made a save but he had moved his hand before the shot was taken so it was clearly a pre empted/meditated movement with nothing to do with the actual shot. No difference between the two, if Green had made the movement after seeing the shot there wouldnt have been enough time to react to it.

Maybe he did mean it, but i doubt it, he's done well to get a strong hand to it which helped it going over the bar but did he 100% know it would end up where it did? I doubt it :)

It's the old penalty argument.
Do you:
a) Wait to tell which direction the shot is taken in, so you don't look a fool by diving the wrong way?
b) Dive just before the ball is struck, allowing you to dive further, but risk going the wrong way?

I always went with b, as I was pretty good at reading which way they'd take the penalty, and had very good diving skills (helped by lots of martial arts and sports).

But anyway, keeper is often a very unrewarding position, generally ignored when you have a good day, and hounded when you don't.

It's even worse with central defs ;)

Even worse with wingbacks :)

GK (from about 8-14 years) -> WB (6 months) -> CDM (still am one) has been my footballing path. CDM is pretty oversighted too sadly.