Choosing who defends the
goal
of is a very personal decision that usually marks the era of a coach.
Zubizarreta
was indisputable for Javier Clemente,
Casillas
for Camacho or Del Bosque and even
De Gea
for Lopetegui.
Luis Enrique
has not yet found his guardian.
With the goals of the great teams in foreign hands, the names have been repeated in their calls, but no one can feel like a starter.
De Gea,
Kepa
and newcomer
Unai Simón
fight for a bow that has no owner since Casillas stopped wearing the Red one.
De Gea and Kepa are the names that the Asturian inherited from
Lopetegui
.
He used to complete the shortlist, and that is how it happened at the World Cup in Russia, Pepe Reina.
Later they were joined by
Pau López
and now the Athletic youth and European Under-21 champion.
All have had their lights and cast shadows that make it difficult for just one to acquire the title stripes.
De Gea still weighs the doubts he generated in Russia.
Among the fans and, above all, among her own teammates.
Isolated and suspicious since the judicial scandal that hit him in 2016, he feels more recognition in England than in his country.
In
Manchester he
is wrapped up and has the confidence of
Solskjaer
.
Fourth least thrashed goalkeeper in the Premier (36), he became the
club's highest paid player
last September
with a contract until 2023, extendable for another year.
However,
his gross mistakes have not gone away
.
Against Everton, a displacement attempt ended in assisting an opponent to score, a ball slipped between his hands against Watford and ended the season with two clamorous retinal failures against Chelsea (1-3) deprived the United from contesting the FA Cup.
"He knows he should have stopped that one 100 times out of 100
,
"
lamented the Norwegian coach.
Robert Moreno opted for Kepa
In Luis Enrique's first ten games on the national team's bench, De Gea started six of them.
The other four went to
Kepa Arrizabalaga
, who did chain titles during
Robert Moreno's
stage
.
He was his goalkeeper in five of the eight games he led to Spain, adopting
a particular decision that Luis Enrique did not like
.
Now, faced with the possibility of reversing it, the performance of the Basque goal could serve as an almost unquestionable argument.
His path at Chelsea is strewn with brambles.
With a transfer of 80 million, Kepa became the most expensive goal in history in the summer of 2018 ... which has not lived up to expectations.
Even the veteran Willy Caballero has snatched his title in the Champions League.
His problems have not only been with Lampard, who sent him to the bench from January to March, but they started with Sarri.
In February 2019,
he refused to leave the field
in a Carabao Cup match. Challenging the coach cost him € 225,000 and endless criticism.
With a percentage of saves among the worst in the Premier League, Luis Enrique's call is a ball of oxygen for the Basque.
Then he will have to return to London, because the atypical market left by Covid makes his exit difficult.
With
Pau López
highly questioned by his notable mistakes in Roma, the figure of
Unai Simón
emerges with force.
After a 2019 in which he lost the title to Iago Herrerín and saw the European Under-21 from the bench due to an error in the first game against Italy, the Alava has consolidated himself in the Athletic goal, he has renewed his contract until 2025 and the season ended as the
least beaten Spanish goalkeeper
(29), behind only Courtois and Oblack.
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