Our opponents never have many chances and if they do, they're mostly from counterattacks or situations where we're outnumbered and they're 1 on 1 with the GK, i.e. the goalkeeper has a much harder time than keepers from teams who get dominated on the ball and have several shots coming their way, often from long distance, from different angles etc. Real Madrid is usually one of the latter, so it's easier for Navas to stand out, just like it is/was easy for Kameni, Caballero, Ochoa etc. Look at the 1st Wolfsburg-RM game to see what Navas would look like if he played for Barça.
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It appalls me how some cules have such narrow perspective of the game. It's sad to see them discredit and undermine a player, given he's fighting against the odds with the way he's managed playtime wise, yet has stood his ground for the most part. Keylor in a similar situation looked a tier 2 keeper (see his first season at RM).
Talking about excellent performances:
Vs Roma (A), B04(A), Arsenal (A), Espanyol (A), Bilbao (A). Comfortably top 3 performer in the aforementioned games, and arguably outperformed Bravo in the sec half of the season (despite playing less). Even the Motm graph speaks so. MAtS has been top 3 CL keeper sec year running. He does fairly well statistically in comparison to the 'top' keepers. Looks like his detractors don't watch 'top' keepers on a regular basis, as being made to look the fool isn't only reserved to a young keeper being irregularly featured.
The Bravo-MatS debate has never been a reasonable one, as they have never shared a level playing field. The former despite form issues will continue to get opportunities to redeem performances (as I'm sure he will in the remainder of the games), whilst MatS doesn't enjoy the same privilege. The latter's contributions are often overlooked and even forgotten when the fan often dwells on the immediate past.
It wasn't the worst howler in the world, but he wasn't great and definitely not "one of the best on the pitch" or whatever.
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