Victor Valdes – Statistically the best goalkeeper in Spain last season
It has been revealed that the Spanish goal stopper and the Barcelona number 1, Victor Valdes was statistically the best goalkeeper in the Spanish La Liga last season.
For two consecutive seasons, Victor Valdes is proving to be important for the Spanish Champions. Victor Valdes is playing a key role in the success of Barcelona and managed to keep the highest percentage of saves in the Spanish La Liga last season.
Barcelona’s goal stopper saved every eight shots out of ten that came at him. Despite having amazing goal stoppers like Iker Casillas, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-c11058 Lopez in the Spanish Primera Division, Victor Valdes still topped them all and managed to become
the best goal stopper in the competition.
As the Catalan coach Josep Guardiola took over Barcelona, he decided to introduce new tactics to the club. According to him, possessing the ball was the best way to attack the opposition and that is exactly how Barcelona plays to win games. The Spanish Champions
are famous for keeping the possession of the ball and pressing the opposition to its back foot.
With this sort of an approach, Barcelona became famous for their outstanding attackers. The Catalan Giants scored 95 goals last season and the figure is simply extraordinary. However, attack is not the only department that Josep Guardiola is working on.
After looking at last season’s statistics, Barcelona’s goal stopper Victor Valdes stopped more shots than any other keeper in the Spanish La Liga.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 scored 95 goals in the Spanish League and conceded only 21. The goals conceded figure is simply phenomenal especially, all thanks to Victor Valdes who has played a vital role to reach this milestone.
Whenever Victor Valdes is asked about his goalkeeping, he acts humble and stresses that the team worked hard as a whole. However, there is no doubt that the Spaniard has done a lot to help Barcelona keep the best defensive record in the competition. Throughout
the last season, Victor Valdes has been able to block 80.6% of the shots that have been fired at him.
It is definitely hard to play against a team like Barcelona. The Spanish Champions are considered to be the best team in not only http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 or Europe but the whole world. The Catalan Giants have had only 72 shots on their own goal and out of those 112 shots,
Victor Valdes saved 91.
With Victor Valdes missing out on a few games due to injury and Jose http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pinto-c30032 taking charge, Valdes conceded only 19 goals while Pinto conceded only 2 goals in the Spanish League. The three games that Valdes missed out on were against Atletico Madrid,
Mallorca and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 – all three difficult oppositions.
If we compare the statistics of Victor Valdes in the Spanish La Liga last season, he was above all the other goalkeepers. Victor Valdes had 112 shots fired at him and he has saved 91. The Real Madrid goal stopper Iker Casillas saved 65 shots out of 82 fired
at him. With this record, Casillas saved 79.3% shots taken at him.
The other two goalkeepers who are considered to be the best in the Spanish La Liga are http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-de-Gea-c10463 and Diego Lopez. Atletico Madrid’s star David De Gea saved 124 shots out of 163 fired at him. The Villarreal goal stopper Diego Lopez saved 92 out of 122
shots fired at him.
With this sort of a record, it simply proves that Barcelona are not only extraordinary when it comes down to scoring goals, but are also outstanding in defence. Victor Valdes is definitely an extraordinary goalkeeper and that is the reason why he is statistically
better than the goalkeeper who is considered to be the best in the world at the moment – http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Casillas-c16815.
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