#1 - Manuel Neuer

Just found this in another forum:

Manuel Neuer take no sh*t from journalists:

Spoiler:

Manuel Neuer set a new record for Bayern - they only allowed 1 goal against in all away matches of the BL Hinrunde (first half of the season).

This year, Manuel Neuer only made the 4th place of the kicker BL GK ranking as the journalists at kicker weren't so impressed by his mistakes against Nürnberg and Sweden plus some risky outfield adventures. ^^

Full list:


Source (slideshow): http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/579562/2/slideshow_adler-26-co-_ein-trio-landet-vor-neuer.html

I didn't write this part but it's very interesting:

"06/07 neuer/schalke conceded fewest goals
07/08 only kahn/bayern conceded fewer goals than neuer/schalke
08/09 neuer/schalke conceded fewest goals
09/10 neuer/schalke conceded fewest goals
10/11 only 3 teams conceded fewer goals than neuer/schalke (despite terrible season and 14th place)
11/12 neuer/bayern conceded fewest goals
12/13 neuer/bayern conceded fewest goals"



I'll take the occasional blunder from him if he keeps this up.

Funnily enough, I saw the exact same post on redcafe a couple of hours ago.
I found it interesting then, and I still do.

Well, the importance of a good GK is that he not only has the physical attributes, but he needs to be able to organise the defense properly, and even more important, he needs to have an air about him that assures the defenders. If they know they have someone back there who will be able to keep the balls out, they will not become afraid when the ball nears the goal and thus make lesser mistakes themselves.

rwo power wrote:Well, the importance of a good GK is that he not only has the physical attributes, but he needs to be able to organise the defense properly, and even more important, he needs to have an air about him that assures the defenders. If they know they have someone back there who will be able to keep the balls out, they will not become afraid when the ball nears the goal and thus make lesser mistakes themselves.

As a CB, I agree with this. You feel a lot safer with a trusty GK in goal.

Manuel Neuer was voted World's Best Keeper 2013 by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

The Top 5:
1. Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern München) - 211 points
2. Gigi Buffon (Juventus Turin) - 78 points
3. Petr Cech (FC Chelsea) - 64 points
4. Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid)
5. Victor Valdes (FC Barcelona)

In earlier years, Oliver Kahn (1999, 2001, 2002) and Andreas Köpke (1996) were elected World's Best Keeper by the IFFHS, too.

Source: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/597480/artikel_welttorhueter-neuer_auf-den-spuren-von-kahn-und-koepke.html

Excellent and well deserved for Manuel Neuer.

One of the worst gk performance i have seen recently, what happened Rwo?

He reminded of the game he had vs Chelsea in the supercup, completely fluffed a Hazard shot aimed straight at his feet

Guardiola effect.

Sorry, didn't watch the match yesterday. I had too much fun configuring a new Gentoo Linux kernel as udev has some weird ideas about naming devices (why on earth does my ethernet card need to be named enp3s0 instead of the good old eth0???) and I managed to mess up the ALSA config big time -_-'

Biggest big game flop since Kahn

Cant believe people actually thought this pretender is better than Iker   
Should have saved first and third as well (I know Casillas would have )

because iker never got shat on either?

Spoiler:

Erm, Iker didnt look nearly half as bad as Neuer in that game, even though the eventual score line was much worse. In fact, if not for him it could have been much worse(!!!), with none of the goals scored that fateful night preventable.

In the present case, the first and third goals were pretty much straight at him, albeit with some power and venom, and he should have done better IMO. His whole sweeper keeper thing was also pretty much unconvincing and could easily have led to more embarrassment.

Kamikaze692 wrote:Cant believe people actually thought this pretender is better than Iker   
Should have saved first and third as well (I know Casillas would have )

Do you remember when Iker got destroyed by Pato? I do.

All GKs have bad days.

Forza wrote:

Kamikaze692 wrote:Cant believe people actually thought this pretender is better than Iker   
Should have saved first and third as well (I know Casillas would have )

Do you remember when Iker got destroyed by Pato? I do.

All GKs have bad days.

but Iker never has bad day in big games. he is the ultimate big game GK. can`t say that about Manny

Valkyrja wrote:

Forza wrote:

Kamikaze692 wrote:Cant believe people actually thought this pretender is better than Iker   
Should have saved first and third as well (I know Casillas would have )

Do you remember when Iker got destroyed by Pato?  I do.

All GKs have bad days.

but Iker never has bad day in big games. he is the ultimate big game GK. can`t say that about Manny

Spain v Switzerland 1st game of the 2010 WC

It was one bad performance. He has had 100 performances worthy of MOTM.

Just because a player is WC doesn't mean he won't have bad days. Thiago Silva is considered as the best CB in the world and yet he has had many issues this season.

You're a bunch of clowns.

Neuer is the best player in the world, better than Messi.

Neuer is the best libero in the world.

Hapless_Hans wrote:You're a bunch of clowns.

Neuer is the best player in the world, better than Messi.

this

i second this.

Kamikaze692 wrote:Erm, Iker didnt look nearly half as bad as Neuer in that game, even though the eventual score line was much worse. In fact, if not for him it could have been much worse(!!!), with none of the goals scored that fateful night preventable.

In the present case, the first and third goals were pretty much straight at him, albeit with some power and venom, and he should have done better IMO. His whole sweeper keeper thing was also pretty much unconvincing and could easily have led to more embarrassment.

stop fanboying, my post just explains how every top player who plays somewhere in the backline will not ever have a perfect record which is practically impossible.

Big time forward player does nothing for 89 minutes and scores goal = good game
Big time defensive/keeper player does good for 89 minutes and has one error = flop worst thing ever.

So, I updated the videos, and pics a bit. The videos are basically the same ones as in the multimedia section, but it can't hurt to have them in two places.