Keylor Navas and Mike Maignan, the match in the match between the two best goalkeepers in the championship during PSG-Lille.
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AFP / SIPA / 20 Minutes Editing
PSG receives Losc on Saturday, a very important match for the title between the leader of Ligue 1 and his runner-up.
These two teams, it is no coincidence, have in Keylor Navas and Mike Maignan the two best goalkeepers in the championship.
Do they look alike?
Which is the most decisive?
According to what criteria?
"20 Minutes" assesses the style and performance of the two men.
We can analyze football by looking under a microscope at the number of opponents eliminated thanks to a pass by a player in the last 30 meters between the 60th and the 73rd minute, there will always remain two contingencies.
With an attacker who crashes and a keeper who makes saves, we win more matches.
As goalkeeper, we can say that PSG and Losc, who face each other on Saturday in a game that is very expensive for the end of the season, are well off.
Keylor Navas (34) and Mike Maignan (25) are undoubtedly the two best goalkeepers in the championship this season.
Can we say, all the same, that there is one above the other?
Do they look alike?
Which is the most decisive?
According to what criteria?
On the eve of the shock at the top of Ligue 1,
20 Minutes
assesses the style and performance of the two men.
With the help of former PSG goalkeeper Lionel Letizi, currently a trainer at OGC Nice, and Romain Damiano, Mike Maignan's first trainer at the Jeunesse Sportive de Villiers-Le-Bel and who continues to follow his foal assiduously.
Deciphering the style
Letizi on Navas:
“His big quality is that he is efficient.
He's not very tall, not very explosive, but he really has a style of his own and he masters it perfectly.
We feel that his first objective is to put his body between the ball and the goal, no matter which way.
So it's not always academic, but it's formidable.
He goes very quickly in his gestures, upper body as lower body.
The air sector is not its strong point, but it is also because it is aging.
He had to go out more when he was young, but as you get older you go less because you are a little less explosive.
In Paris he has very good defenders in front of him, who help him, so no need to go.
I admire, anyway.
He's a goalie who's been good everywhere he's played, who's won titles.
"
Navas in masterclass mode during the second leg against Barça in the Champions League.
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Damiano sur Maignan
:
“It's really the prototype of the modern goalkeeper, with very good kicking play.
He is able to raise well and goes very quickly in the game. One of his first qualities is to play forward, to want to attack right away.
It is a guard who attacks.
Besides, he was an attacker when I met him.
He kept that offensive side and he still enjoys playing in the field.
He has progressed a lot, especially with this technique of putting the knee forward.
The stop he made in front of Jovetic at the last minute of the match against Monaco [0-0, March 14] marked me.
We have the impression that he is concentrated until the last second, something that we could perhaps reproach him before.
Now he is decisive until the end.
You can count on him at any time during the match.
He has the build of great goalkeepers like Neuer.
For me, he is in that line.
It exudes a real serenity.
"
The stats
The visual impression that these two goalkeepers dominate this season is confirmed in the figures, provided here by the very complete site FBref and the LFP.
We will try not to put 40, but hang in there anyway.
Already, they are not the ones who have made the most saves in absolute value, but in relation to the number of shots suffered, they are the most effective, ahead of Messin Oukidja, Rennais Salin and Lyonnais Lopes.
By clicking on the second graph (top right), you will find the percentage of “hard” stops (by diving) compared to the total number.
Infogram
efficiency
On this last point, however, the Parisian has a clear advantage.
Navas made 22 "difficult" saves against 19 for Maignan, after having played eight games less.
Confirmation that the Costa Rican is more spectacular and quick to perform parades on his line.
Moreover, he is the one who "avoided" the most goals for his team, ahead of Lille
(you have to click on the small arrow at the bottom left)
.
Impact on
Infogram
score
Other stats also highlight their dissimilarities, highlighted by our two speakers.
Thus, Navas is more careful than his counterpart.
On opposing centers, for example, he only intervenes in 3% of cases, against 9% for Lille.
And he leaves very little of his penalty area to clear a ball or cut a trajectory.
In this area, Maignan advantage.
Infogram
air and defensive
sorties
Which one seems above?
Romain Damiano
:
“For me, Mike is largely at the level of Navas today.
To choose, as a coach and remaining objective, I prefer to take him.
Navas is more spectacular in his saves but Mike has better kicking play.
It is more reassuring and it brings offensively.
He is the first striker of his team.
Navas is a very good goalkeeper, he makes extraordinary saves but he participates less in the game. "
Mike Maignan authoritarian in the air against PSG.
- DENIS CHARLET / AFP
Lionel Letizi
:
“It's a complicated choice because they do not belong to the same generation.
Maignan is a little more modern, more complete, more explosive, younger.
He has an extraordinary footwork, right foot left foot, short or long, he is perfect.
He participates more, but Navas has less need to do it with Marquinhos or Verratti who are there to revive.
Does simple things to him, a keeper is not a number 10 and he understood it.
It is a mark of intelligence.
So…
(hesitates)
… I don't know!
(laughs)
.
Come on, I choose the efficient rather than the modern.
If it is necessary to win titles I put Navas.
He has already won, and he has changed the life of PSG since he arrived, in a very exposed position.
He got everyone to agree.
"
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