1 - Victor Valdes

[evilhita666]

And the good thing is that he already had his screw up of the season against Arsenal, which really wasn't that bad to begin with... Valdés is awesome!

 

[Daemul]

He is now a top 5 goalkeeper, maybe even top 3.

 

[iookram]

He is now a top 5 goalkeeper, maybe even top 3.

Massively underrated though. Some people don't even consider him to be in the "top 10 keepers" category.

 

[Daemul]

Thats because they are thinking of the valdes of 5 years ago

 

[Catalonian Devil]

Our most underrated player ...

Valdés stops 8 out of 10 shots

Anna Segura
For yet another season, Victor Valdés has been a key part in team’s success. In La Liga for example, he has the highest percentage of saves of any keeper in the competition – stopping 8 out every 10 shots.

Barça’s big strength is seen by many as their attacking prowess, having bagged 81 goals in the league so far this season, but their defensive strength has been equally impressive, having conceded just 15 league goals – a record in which Victor has played a vital role.

8 out of 10

Valdés is always quick to stress that keeping clean sheets is a matter for the whole team, but the keeper’s performances have been key in helping Barça to the best defensive record in the competition. So far this season he has saved 80.6% of the shots that have been fired in at him - stopping eight out of every ten efforts.

Few shots


Valdes’ achievements are in fact even more impressive when you consider he is keeping for a team who opponents find it so hard to create chances against - in all Barça have received just 72 shots with him in goal during the campaign so far with Valdés saving 58 of them saved.

Valdes has conceded just 14 goals –a figure that would leave him top of the Zamora trophy but for the three games he missed with injury -against Atlètico Madrid, Mallorca and Valencia.

Head of the table

Valdés is the La Liga keeper with the highest percentage of saves, ahead of Casillas, De Gea and Diego López.


Keeper


Team


Shots


Saves


Percentage

Valdés
FC Barcelona
72
58
80,6%


Casillas
R. Madrid
82
65
79,3%


De Gea
At. Madrid
163
124
76,1%



D. López
Vila-real
122
92
75,4%

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/noticies/futbol/temporada10-11/03/26/n110326116532.html

 

[10Rivaldo]

Unfortunately he's underrated because he was massively inconsistent until a few years ago.

 

[FCB_M3]

Yes amazing stats but I think the Rest of the team deserves credit. I mean what are we pulling 65-70 possession of the ball during a game? Nevertheless Valdez amazing keeper. top 5? Maybe. top ten? No doubt

 

[Povikas]

 

[T.I.]

He was amazing today.

 

[BarcaGirl]

MOTM easily! He's the reason why we got 3 points today.

LEGEND!

 

[Silver]

He played word class today.
Man of the match for sure

 

[Flavia]

MOTM easily! He's the reason why we got 3 points today.

LEGEND!

Yes! Those saves were amazing. MOTM for sure.

 

[Silver]

He's missing next game I think due that yellow card

 

[BarcaGirl]

He's missing next game I think due that yellow card

it doesn't matter ...as long as he's back against RM it's okay

 

[Galning]

Yeah he did that on purpose, well done