Compare this to the below situation from minute 50 of the yesterday's game versus Brighton. Notice how Jaros stepped forward to make himself bigger. Jaros made three steps forward.* That is an example of good goalkeeping.* That below is what you want to see from a goalkeeper. Those are matters of fundamental movement and positioning and those things amount to around 80% of save making. That stuff is about closing angles. The net is huge and how much of it a keeper closes down bears tremendous outcome on the likelihood that a save will be made.
Such things and movements have exponential effect. A positional change of just 30 centimeters results in the much greater angle closedown depending on things such as the proximity of the keeper to the ball and the striker. And those things have to do with fundamental keepers' awareness and anticipation (or lack thereof) as to at what specific moment the ball will be stricken. Such things require the keeper to read the offensive players movement as well as to read the position and movements of other players around him.
Jaros again did very, very well yesterday. Jaros seems like a great keeper. He also seems very comfortable playing from the back. IMO, with Jaros and Mamardashvili Liverpool seems pretty loaded with young good goalkeepers.
* One should note that it is not always good to step forward. The keeper must read and know that no pass is possible and open so that if he steps forward there will not be some sort of a tap in goal after a pass. Those things are part of the fundamental goalkeeping skills having to do with great awareness of all of the things and players in and around their box. Great keepers like Alisson are also aware of specific strikers' tendencies in these situations. I have observed Alisson giving particular sort of attention to specific attackers given their great skills and fundamental weaknesses (when on their left or right foot, for example). Etc., etc., etc...
In general, and this is important, keepers don't know 1. what they're doing and 2. why they are doing it. You can have a tremendous keeper, that is, who is unaware that he comes out and steps forward when and how he does in certain but not other situations. B U T , as keepers get older they can become more and more aware of such things. Aware of their KNOWLEDGE of that stuff. They can become aware of why they are doing what they are doing and why they are doing it the way they are doing it in certain but not other situations. And then they can pass that knowledge to others. That's why I think that Alisson should next sign a player-goalkeeping-coach contract. And that is NOTTT the only reason why I think Alisson should sign such a contract. Alisson's such and otherwise presence can also serve to give fundamental confidence to other young keepers and especially so for a keeper like Mamardashili who is from Georgia, who is a complete and total foreigner and who will struggle in England and in Liverpool.**
Here is the link for the video:
** You might perhaps find yourself pausing here to notice that what is written in this paragraph is true not just for keepers. But that it is true for all people in regard to all things and in all walks of life. (Or you might not. lol)
