Newcastle United may hardly be in higher kind proper now.
On Sunday, the Magpies fought again from a purpose all the way down to beat Bromley 3-1 within the FA Cup, with Lewis Miley on course, Anthony Gordon changing a penalty after which William Osula rubber-stamping their place in spherical 4.
That was an eighth successive victory for the Magpies, who’ve moved as much as fifth within the Premier League, which might be sufficient to safe their Champions League return, whereas Eddie Howe‘s staff are additionally on the cusp of reaching the EFL Cup Closing.
That is the membership’s longest winning sequence as a top-flight membership since March 2005, going in quest of a ninth consecutive victory when Wolves go to St James’ Park on Wednesday, most not too long ago attaining that in 1994.
Nonetheless, may January additionally show to be a busy month off the sector, with reinforcements doubtlessly on their option to the North East?
Newcastle available in the market for a brand new goalkeeper
In accordance with reports from France via social media, Newcastle, in addition to Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, are all fascinated with LOSC Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier.
It has been previously reported that Paris Saint-Germain wish to make Chevalier their first-choice goalkeeper, with supervisor Luis Enrique unconvinced by Gianluigi Donnarumma, though les Rouge-et-Bleu will face ‘powerful competitors’ from Premier League golf equipment.
Sources in Spain counsel Lille worth their goalkeeper at €40m (round £34m), which may show nice worth for cash, with European soccer skilled Zach Lowy on Twitter claiming Chevalier is “the perfect goalkeeper obtainable in the marketplace”.
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Newcastle have confronted well-documented goalkeeper points in current weeks.
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Ordinary first-choice Nick Pope hasn’t featured since 7 December because of a knee injury suffered in opposition to Brentford, whereas Martin Dúbravka, who’s deputised for the final eight matches, all of which they’ve received, is potentially on his way to Saudi Professional League facet Al-Shabab, with the Magpies seeking to cash-in, contemplating the Slovakian has simply six months left on his contract.
Then there may be the unusual case of Odysseas Vlachodimos, described by Chris Waugh and George Caulkin of the Athletic because the “£20m goalkeeper Newcastle did not need”, becoming a member of from Nottingham Forest final summer season as each golf equipment averted PSR factors penalties, with Greece’s primary seeing just 45 minutes of action at membership stage this season, launched at half time of an EFL Cup tie in opposition to AFC Wimbledon.
However, Pope is the clear primary, when obtainable, so let’s have a look at how the England worldwide and Chevalier examine.
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Lucas Chevalier vs Nick Pope (23/24 & 24/25) |
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|---|---|---|
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Statistics |
Chevalier |
Pope |
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Appearances |
50 |
30 |
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Minutes |
4,499 |
2,695 |
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Clear sheets |
22 |
8 |
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Clear sheet % |
44% |
26.7% |
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Targets conceded per 90 |
0.96 |
1.24 |
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Saves |
137 |
95 |
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Save % |
76.8% |
71.8% |
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Publish-shot xG – objectives conceded |
+7.8 |
+2.4 |
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Go completion % |
76.7% |
73.9% |
As outlined within the desk, because the begin of final season, Chevalier has outperformed Pope in each metric.
The Frenchman has the joint-seventh best save % of any goalkeeper throughout Europe’s “high 5” leagues whereas, final season, he was ranked 12th for post-shot xG – objectives conceded, recording a really spectacular determine of +5.7, which means, at simply 21-years-old, he was the youngest participant to complete within the high 45 for this metric.
Publish-shot anticipated objectives (PSxG) is a metric used to find out how seemingly a goalkeeper is to avoid wasting a shot.
On this season’s Champions League meantime, solely Paulo Gazzaniga, Caoimhín Kelleher, Emi Martínez and Łukasz Skorupski rank larger than Chevalier for post-shot xG – objectives conceded, with Lille’s goalkeeper is also joint-eight for saves and seventh for save % (of goalkeepers who’ve featured on all six matchdays).
In brief, Chevalier is a top-class goalkeeper and, if Newcastle are in a position to safe his providers, it could be a severe coup.
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