Country: England
Curious how you feel about him. Taking into account what you've witnessed him do for you and what you see from his Juve performances.
This makes me sad..Speaking on the In Lockdown podcast, the Poland international goalkeeper opened up about his time at the club and said he will always have some regrets.
"More than anything, I miss the boys," Szczesny said. "We had a fantastic group of players. We were young, we had a lot of energy, we had a lot of banter and we had some good and bad moments together, but we really united as a group. It was a great joy to be with them every day.
"I miss them. I miss playing at the Emirates. I think that was something special for me, the quality of the pitch, the fans, the big nights in a north London derby.
"The emotions were quite different because whatever you do in your career, and some of us have gone on to make great things and have made a great career whereas some have maybe made a step back, there's nothing like playing for the club that you love. The emotion of that is something special.
"That's why I was always jealous and why my dream was always to follow the Gerrards and the Scholes, the Tottis of this world. I think it's just beautiful that you can play your whole career for one club and just appreciate that emotion of going out to the pitch and having that extra little bit. Your heart rate is a little bit higher because you know it means that little bit more to you than to the others. That was just really beautiful.
"You go on and make a big career. You do your best, you're professional, but that's always missing and always will be. That's fine I think. The pain of not being able to live that emotion again is also something that can push me through it and really make the best career that I can for myself."
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He's in and around the same level as Leno you'd say, tho Leno seems to have the ability to make match winning saves.
Absolutely not top class. He's very good. Amazing reflexes, still extremely error prone and he's not always convincing. Helped out by playing behind a top class defence I think more than anything. He's in and around the same level as Leno you'd say, tho Leno seems to have the ability to make match winning saves.
Think that’s overrating the Juventus defence tbf. They’ve had the second most errors leading to shots on target in the league this year.
Szczesny’s save % is 84.6 which is godly and the highest of his career. No one else in any of the top 5 leagues is close, second place is Allison who has 80 and has faced twenty less shots.
Those are the only keepers to get above 80% this year. In terms of xG per 90 metrics he also ranks as a truly phenomenal keeper.
Save % can be a bit mis-leading can it not? I accept Juve haven't been great defensively this year, I think prior to that under Allegri they were pretty good tho.
xG per 90 is more interesting tho, I can accept that one. I still don't ever feel convinced that he's top class all the same, probably the tier below.
Save % can be a bit mis-leading can it not? I accept Juve haven't been great defensively this year, I think prior to that under Allegri they were pretty good tho.
xG per 90 is more interesting tho, I can accept that one. I still don't ever feel convinced that he's top class all the same, probably the tier below.
Surely we agree he is levels ahead of Leno?
Lol who remembers when Scez and Fabianski had that interview and they were laughing at how bad Arsenals goalkeeping coach was