![]() A player once marred by errors due to loss of focus and hyperactivity has grown up. If anyone contributed the most to the Merseysiders’ survival - and others such as Abdoulaye Doucoure, Dwight McNeil and James Tarkowski made significant efforts - it was Pickford. His highlight reel stretched across the turbulent campaign from spectacularly denying Darwin Nunez to take a point from September’s Goodison derby a Superman stop from an Ollie Watkins effort in February saves from Lewis Dunk and Solly March during a crucial win at Brighton to that late diving parry from Matias Vina on Sunday. In terms of raw goalkeeping, he saved 118 of the 173 shots faced - meaning a save rate of 68.2 per cent. That was while facing more shots than all but two of the players ranked statistically better than him this term. In a season when just about everything that could go wrong for Everton did go wrong, Pickford was right enough times to save the day.įor a team that spent most of the campaign near the drop zone, eventually finishing 17th, he was the seventh-best shot-stopper (in terms of non-penalty goals) in the top flight, with a better goal prevention rate than Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsdale and Manchester City’s Ederson among others. Safe to say, Jordan Pickford enjoyed that penalty save □ /26BOiNhCfX ![]() Using his handy research stuck to that bottle and utilising all of his nerve, England’s No 1 suspected the Leicester man would go down the middle and guessed correctly. It was a daunting moment but, in the Everton goal, Jordan Pickford had the bottle, and a bottle, to stand tall and save the day.
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