2023-12-06 01:08:39
Sunday’s day of the fourteenth round of the French championship has been marked by the performances of the Lille goalkeeper, Lucas Chevalier, and the Spanish goalkeeper of the Paris Saint Germain, Arnau Tenas. The trajectory of both this course is being totally opposite, The first of them is being the fixed goalkeeper in the goal of The Mastiffs since the arrival of Paulo Fonseca Last season, after spending a season on loan at Valenciennes. Talking about Arnau Tenas, after leaving the Barcelona Football Club because he decided not to renew his contract, The Catalan goalkeeper has been in the shadow of Gianluigi Donnarumma and until now he had not played any minutes with the shirt of the team led by Luis Enrique.
Both were among the most outstanding goalkeepers of the past European Under-21 which was held in Georgia and Romania. Lucas Chevalier was France’s starting goalkeeper throughout the tournament, being Syvain Ripoll’s trusted goalkeeper, playing in front of the team’s goalkeeper Leeds United, Evening Meslier. Despite their great role, the French team packed up in the Quarterfinals, after losing 1-3 to Ukraine in an exhibition by Chelsea player Mykhailo Mudryk. Arnau Tenas For his part, he reached the final with Spain, being key in the five games he played in the tournament. However, they were unable to win the title after losing the final in dramatic fashion against England.
The penalty saver of Ligue 1
The Lille goalkeeper stood out this day in France, due to his great performance against Metz, after having saved two penalties. The first of them was stopped by French striker Simon Elisor in the 29th minute after a great dive to the right of the goal. The second maximum penalty was at the beginning of the second half in the 55th minute. In this case they have changed the pitcher and it has been executed by the young Senegalese midfielder, Lamine Camara. In this one he had fewer complications since he threw it quite softly in the middle and the goalkeeper The Mastiffs He has guessed the trajectory correctly.
The 22-year-old goalkeeper is on the radar of several major European clubs, due to the potential it has and the great attraction of Ligue 1, promoted by the LFP as “League of talents”. In fact, in March he made statements to RMC Sport about the “hype” that young people in France give themselves to the minimum that they highlight: “I think that I must be the youngest goalkeeper in Ligue 1 and that, in addition, he plays for a team like Lille, he attracts attention. And there may be a bit of “hype”but, at the end of the day, that’s business, it’s evolution.”
Rumors aside, His numbers this season are something to take into account.. In 14 league games he has conceded 11 goals, eight clean sheets, 2.8 saves per game, 78% unbeaten rate, 2/2 penalties saved and an average of 3.22 goals avoided. In addition to all this, he is writing his name in gold letters in Lille’s statistics, since until now it has stopped like mastiff 60% of the penalties that have been thrown at him (3/5 in two seasons).
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stellar debut
The party of Paris Saint Germain against Le Havre he started as one more on the bench to Arnau Tenas. However, in the 12th minute after the expulsion of Gianluigi Donnarumma He had to enter the field of play. It was his debut in professional football, since with the Barcelona Football Club subsidiary he never played in the second division and in the first team he never had the opportunity to debut. However, He was one of the architects of the Parisian team’s 0-2 victory, with 7 saves, equaling the record set by Anthony Maisonnial in 2016 with the Saint Etienne of the goalkeeper with the most saves in Ligue 1 after coming off the bench (@OptaJean).
At the end of the match he was euphoric in front of the microphones: “Today is incredible. It’s magnificent, the defense is magnificent. It’s a perfect day for me. I thought about my family, my father, my brother. The club, PSG, the coach told me to play calmly as always. That’s the “A goalkeeper’s job, working for the team. I’m ready for anything, I work hard!”
For all this, It is worth highlighting the figure of Luis Enrique. Who opted for his signing in the summer and in March 2022 promoted him to the senior team after the injury of Robert Sanchez. Whenever the Asturian has been asked about the goalkeeper who since his childhood has been constantly compared to Victor Valdes, He has insisted that it is a project for the future and is firm in betting on it. In fact, today before the club’s media he had words of praise for him: “A team is the sum of all the individualities. Arnau is an example of what it means to be prepared and train every day to take advantage of that opportunity and he has had fair reward for the professional life he leads and the level we already knew about him. “I’m very happy for him.”
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