Categories: Football

Yes, Jan Oblak is a 'parapenaltis'

One of the great protagonists of the game this past Sunday of
Atlético de Madrid
before him Seville it was Jan Oblak. The Slovenian goalkeeper was one of the most outstanding of his team, despite the fact that his great performance did not help Atlético to join.

The goalkeeper of Atlético de Madrid, Slovenian Jan Oblak, a penalty was stopped by the Argentine winger of the Sevilla Lucas Ocampos in the early stages of the game. And that is no longer news. When many have pointed out to the Balkan as a goalkeeper he is not skilled in this luck, he showed that he is.

Two penalties stopped in two consecutive games. The one with Alaves that yes it served so that the Athletic add the three points, and the Seville.

The Balkan goalkeeper has already saved six penalties in League, is the second most in the history of the mattress club, just two from Leo Franco, which he stopped in his rojiblanca stage eight. Abel stopped four in his sporting life in the Athletic, completing the podium.

According to data from Opt, alone Diego
Alves has saved more penalties than him since 14/15, stopped 10 of 20, while Jan stopped nine of 29.

THE SHADOW OF MILAN

“Every time he is about to receive a shot from eleven meters, the Slovenian goalkeeper is chased by the penalty shoot-out that decided the final of the match. Champions League of 2016 in Milan (Italy), where he was not able to stop any of the shots that ended up giving victory to the white team, against which he also suffered in the shoot that decided the 2020 Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, where he could not stop none of the four rival shots ”, pointed out a few weeks ago the EFE e Agencyn a report on the Slovenian's ability to stop maximum penalties.

But the reality is that Oblak yes it is a good parapenaltis. Since he arrived, according to EFE, he has faced 29 penalties among all competitions, and not counting the penalty shoot-outs. Of them, he stopped nine, two went out and 18 entered his goal, which represents a 29.5% success rate for the goalkeeper.

“Comparing their data with those of the starting goalkeepers of the two greatest rivals for the title, the Barcelona and the Real Madrid, none of them improve your data: German Marc-André Ter Stegen has stopped seven of 29 pitches with the Barcelona (24.1%), and the Belgian Thibaut Courtois 2 of 19 with Real Madrid (10.5%), in both cases discounting the penalty shoot-outs ”.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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