Shot-Stopping

Aaron Ramsdale

If you can’t stop shots, you shouldn’t be keeping goal for a team looking to win the Premier League title. No matter the other factors that are considered, it is important that the keeper does the basics well.


Based on the stats in the Premier League last season, Raya comes out on top of both key metrics which we are assessing.

In terms of save percentage, the Brentford keeper managed 77.7% for the Bees, while Ramsdale’s was only 70.6%.

If we compare Post Shot xG (the average number of goals they should have let in) to the amount they actually conceded, Raya again is superior, with a +5.0 score to Ramsdale’s -2.0.

David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.