Player Watch: Paulo Gazzaniga

[Gb160]

It’s not spam, it’s just that you’re an embarrassingly shit judge of goalkeeper. Be proud of your ability to know so little about goalkeepers though, it’s quite the achievement.

I honestly think Hugo with one arm in a sling would better.

 

[TEESSIDE1]

I know players can ‘improve’ but what I don’t understand is how the club from a playing perspective have players whom are deemed to be no more than squad players/training partners and all of a sudden due to an injury or outgoing transfer they’re promoted to the 1st team, and we’re expected to believe it’s because they’re the real deal and not out of desperation, often due to failings in our transfer department.

Previous ITK:

Gazzaniga - brought in as a 3rd choice keeper, he’ll never play and he’s not good enough to be 2nd choice. Fast forward 12 months and he’s replaced Vorm as our number 2 and now due to Lloris’ injury he’s doing his best to aide our fall from grace. After a run of games his frailties have been exposed... poor decision making, absolutely woeful at low close shots, kicking is all over the shop.

Trippier - brought in as a squad player, Walker leaves, we don’t replace him and all of a sudden Trippier is our new star right back. Yes he had some good games but last season he was a train wreck and he killed our style of football eg swapped a strong and rapid full back for weak sloth whom runs in cement.

KWP - never been good enough yet Trippier leaves, KWP gets promoted to the 1st team squad yet after a couple of outings Poch deems he’s out of his depth and drops him again.

Sissoko - we lose our dominating midfielder in Dembele and move Sissoko into the middle despite him being awful at both passing and randomly going walkabout.


Let’s not forget about our contract rebels:

Rose and Eriksen - Eriksen, once club hero then decides he wants to leave and proceeds to put in 12 months of horrendous performances. He was decent against Norwich barring his set pieces before returning to utter dross today. Whereas Rose was told he could leave and was frozen out yet he started the season for us and was an expected piss poor. Why do we keep involving these players when they’ve been utter shite for a year, it’s having a massive negative impact on the 1st team.

 

[bubble07]

His one v ones is attroucious. The pen v Chelsea, Pukki offside goal, Ings goal and today's goal. Not saying he should have saved them but come on make it a little bit difficult for the opposition

I thought he was good enough bur he just isnt.

 

[Blake Griffin]

did show hugo how to cruyff turn without ending up in his own net though.

 

[bubble07]

did show hugo how to cruyff turn without ending up in your own net though.

And he also did an overhead clearance. Just wish he would make it harder for opposition to score against him

 

[richard_gleeson]

I know players can ‘improve’ but what I don’t understand is how the club from a playing perspective have players whom are deemed to be no more than squad players/training partners and all of a sudden due to an injury or outgoing transfer they’re promoted to the 1st team, and we’re expected to believe it’s because they’re the real deal and not out of desperation, often due to failings in our transfer department.

Previous ITK:

Gazzaniga - brought in as a 3rd choice keeper, he’ll never play and he’s not good enough to be 2nd choice. Fast forward 12 months and he’s replaced Vorm as our number 2 and now due to Lloris’ injury he’s doing his best to aide our fall from grace. After a run of games his frailties have been exposed... poor decision making, absolutely woeful at low close shots, kicking is all over the shop.

Trippier - brought in as a squad player, Walker leaves, we don’t replace him and all of a sudden Trippier is our new star right back. Yes he had some good games but last season he was a train wreck and he killed our style of football eg swapped a strong and rapid full back for weak sloth whom runs in cement.

KWP - never been good enough yet Trippier leaves, KWP gets promoted to the 1st team squad yet after a couple of outings Poch deems he’s out of his depth and drops him again.

Sissoko - we lose our dominating midfielder in Dembele and move Sissoko into the middle despite him being awful at both passing and randomly going walkabout.


Let’s not forget about our contract rebels:

Rose and Eriksen - Eriksen, once club hero then decides he wants to leave and proceeds to put in 12 months of horrendous performances. He was decent against Norwich barring his set pieces before returning to utter dross today. Whereas Rose was told he could leave and was frozen out yet he started the season for us and was an expected piss poor. Why do we keep involving these players when they’ve been utter shite for a year, it’s having a massive negative impact on the 1st team.

Kicking is much much better than Lloris

 

[King of Otters]

Kicking is much much better than Lloris

Kicking is definitely better than Lloris, that’s about it though.

Neither are good enough long term, or in the short term for that matter.

 

[richard_gleeson]

Kicking is definitely better than Lloris, that’s about it though.

Neither are good enough long term, or in the short term for that matter.

Maybe but who is better than both gazzaniga and Lloris?
Ederson
De Gea
Becker
Schmeichel
?

 

[King of Otters]

Maybe but who is better than both gazzaniga and Lloris?
Ederson
De Gea
Becker
Schmeichel
?

I honestly don’t know. I do know that Lloris is ageing and has been somewhat overtaken in terms of his style of goalkeeping. We’ve also seen since Lloris has been out injured that his understudy probably isn’t good enough.

Ergo, we need a goalkeeper.

You missed Leno off your list btw, which amounts to 1/4 of the GKs in the league being better than our options.

 

[Primativ]

Maybe but who is better than both gazzaniga and Lloris?
Ederson
De Gea
Becker
Schmeichel
?

I think Henderson is a good shout too.

 

[Yiddosmithy]

Thought this article on BBC about expected goals was quite interesting, don't think it's been shared yet. Know it's not everyone's favourite stat but really highlights the difference between our keepers. (Not that anyone should need stats for that)

Best performing keepers using XG

Player	Club	Goals conceded	xGOT conceded*	Goals prevented
Hugo Lloris	Tottenham	8	11.7	3.70
Martin Dubravka	Newcastle	30	33.66	3.66
Vicente Guaita	Crystal Palace	18	21.49	3.49
Dean Henderson	Sheff Utd	16	18.82	2.82
Ben Foster	Watford	33	35.55	2.55

Worst performing keepers using XG

Player	Club	Goals conceded	xGOT conceded*	Goals allowed
Kepa Arrizabalaga	Chelsea	28	19.58	8.42
Angus Gunn	Southampton	25	17.62	7.38
Nick Pope	Burnley	32	25.49	6.51
Tom Heaton	Aston Villa	34	28.05	5.95
Paulo Gazzaniga	Tottenham	21	16.16	4.84

Man City top & Newcastle bottom - the Premier League according to expected goals

At the turn of the year, Liverpool hold a dominant lead in the Premier League, but expected goals paints a different picture.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Dirtysanchez6]

Kicking is much much better than Lloris

Just a pity his main objective is to stop shots though isn’t it which he is pretty rubbish at lol

 

[eViL]

And he also did an overhead clearance. Just wish he would make it harder for opposition to score against him

I wish the defence and midfield would win/keep the ball but we can't have everything we want.

 

[Spurrific]

Maybe but who is better than both gazzaniga and Lloris?
Ederson
De Gea
Becker
Schmeichel
?

I’m better than Gazzaniga but not Hugo.

 

[Clark28]

Feels like we have so many other gaps in the squad that need fixing first.

Lloris and Gazza will probably have to do for next season.

TBF though if we had a proper DM and better defenders they'd have a lot less work to do compared to the shit show they have in-front of them now.

 

[isaac94]

credit to gazza, dropped and still shows this passion

 

[Erm33]

He's definitely a team player and that attitude is a great attribute for a number 2 keeper. Could never question his commitment or how much he cares.

 

[GarlicBread]

I know there’s been question marks over him at times but I don’t think you could ask more of your number 2 keeper. Anyone better isn’t going to spend most of their time on the bench.

 

[yido_number1]

I know there’s been question marks over him at times but I don’t think you could ask more of your number 2 keeper. Anyone better isn’t going to spend most of their time on the bench.

I don't get the hate. We know Lloris is better and he is a back up yet people constantly bring up his deficiencies. I'd say he's a better back up than Vorm who also had his issues and unless one of the academy keepers is ready to step up I'd be more than happy to keep him in.

 

[spursgirls]

Anyone got any idea why Vorm played in the 11 v 11 on Friday and not Gazza?