Robin Olsen (The World's Number Two)

[cdbearsfan]

Any player can have an off day , but I don't think Olsen and Villa will be a good fit ( as a backup keeper, especially what we've seen so far). Is Jed Steer  fit and available and still involved around the squad ?

He's conceded 11 goals in two and a bit games. Useless.

Eleven goals conceded in his last 160 minutes.

[OzVilla]

He made two fantastic saves and I thought he’d found his inner confidence, five minutes later…

The first low down was decent but you'd probably back an experienced keeper to save it, the 2nd from the header was bread and butter for a professional.

[Risso]

Any player can have an off day , but I don't think Olsen and Villa will be a good fit ( as a backup keeper, especially what we've seen so far). Is Jed Steer  fit and available and still involved around the squad ?

He's conceded 11 goals in two and a bit games. Useless.

Eleven goals conceded in his last 160 minutes.

Plus eight in his last three games for Sweden. He must have worse shell shock than a WW1 soldier in the trenches.

[cdbearsfan]

Either he's a lot better than he's shown (hopefully) or it's really mad that he's Sweden's best goalkeeper. I mean Sweden is a proper country. If you told me he was Gibraltar's first choice I'd be thinking "surely they can do better".

Spoiler for Witty riposte for anyone who thinks this would be an opportune moment to make a jibe about Scotland:

Piss off.

[Risso]

Either he's a lot better than he's shown (hopefully) or it's really mad that he's Sweden's best goalkeeper. I mean Sweden is a proper country. If you told me he was Gibraltar's first choice I'd be thinking "surely they can do better".

Spoiler for Witty riposte for anyone who thinks this would be an opportune moment to make a jibe about Scotland:

Piss off.

As I said in the match thread, you can say the same for Croatia and Kalinic. Perhaps English football just isn't for certain keepers.

[paul_e]

He's one of those keepers that spreads panic among the team. Once he dropped that easy looping cross half way through the 2nd half the defence never recovered their composure.  One decent save amongst plenty of gaffs. 

Yep, that was the turning point for me. Their first goal was shit but didn't, in my opinion, change the pattern of the game much and we were pretty good value for the 2-1 lead but once he dropped that one his already noticable reluctance to come off his line became out right fear and all their long balls suddenly started working for them and all our confidence dropped. It was as poor a half from a keeper as I can remember, right up their with Enklemann at the sty.

I get the argument that Emery should've known he's not great but I don't think anyone could've seen quite suc a dramatic collapse in his confidence. Definitely answers a question though that we need to have a much better alternative.

One extra point, playing the reserve keeper in cup games is pretty well established as the only way to keep 2 top level keepers interested so, despite reservations about Olsen I don' think it was the wrong call to give him the shirt tonight, he just showed that he's not a top level keeper so there's no need to worry about keeping him happy.

[olaftab]

He lost the game for us. Pure and simple, he was awful.

[Matt C]

Imagine we’ll be signing a keeper in January.

[clash city rocker]

Just read the first line of this thread...has passed his medical. Fuck the medical has he passed his goalkeeping test.

[Brend'Watkins]

I reckon he’s the best keeper in Sweden. More specifically one of Sweden’s 270,000 islands.

[Risso]

One extra point, playing the reserve keeper in cup games is pretty well established as the only way to keep 2 top level keepers interested so, despite reservations about Olsen I don' think it was the wrong call to give him the shirt tonight, he just showed that he's not a top level keeper so there's no need to worry about keeping him happy.

That's fine if you're a club who has been doing well, and you actually have two top keepers. Or if you have a relatively easy home tie against lower league opposition. But that game needed Martinez tonight. Now we're not going to get the chance to give other players a chance in the League Cup, becuse Olsen was shit and we got knocked out.

[cdbearsfan]

I reckon he’s the best keeper in Sweden. More specifically one of Sweden’s 270,000 islands.

One of the uninhabited ones, maybe.

[SoccerHQ]

I'd actually forgotten about that dropped cross, proper Nyland moment there and we were lucky not to concede with enough bodies to block so yes he stayed on his line afterwards so the high line became very risky.

It was annoying seeing Sarkic making some top saves for Wolves last night. There's someone with some good quality loans who we possibly could've kept around and he could've been the young keeper we lack in the squad given Steer has been injured too often to rely on.

Did we release that young keeper who had an amazing game v Liverpool in the lockdown season aswell?

[paul_e]

I'd actually forgotten about that dropped cross, proper Nyland moment there and we were lucky not to concede with enough bodies to block so yes he stayed on his line afterwards so the high line became very risky.

It was annoying seeing Sarkic making some top saves for Wolves last night. There's someone with some good quality loans who we possibly could've kept around and he could've been the young keeper we lack in the squad given Steer has been injured too often to rely on.

Did we release that young keeper who had an amazing game v Liverpool in the lockdown season aswell?

Sinisalo is the one we really need to concentrate on, unfortunately he's not really getting games on loan at Burton but he's always looked like he can be a very decent option to me.

And yes we released Onodi.

[paul_e]

One extra point, playing the reserve keeper in cup games is pretty well established as the only way to keep 2 top level keepers interested so, despite reservations about Olsen I don' think it was the wrong call to give him the shirt tonight, he just showed that he's not a top level keeper so there's no need to worry about keeping him happy.

That's fine if you're a club who has been doing well, and you actually have two top keepers. Or if you have a relatively easy home tie against lower league opposition. But that game needed Martinez tonight. Now we're not going to get the chance to give other players a chance in the League Cup, becuse Olsen was shit and we got knocked out.

You can't tell your 2nd choice keeper that you'll give him the cup games to keep him involved and then change your mind if it's a tougher draw. We have no idea if Emery made any such promise but given how common it is and that he has done it at other clubs it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if that's what happened. As I said though, Olsen had the most complete collapse I've seen for ages tonight and our entire defence stopped working as a result I don't believe anyone saw that coming even at half time.