Premier League best XI - goalkeepers: vote for the best shot-stopper this season

For the next 11 weeks, we will host a weekly survey series to suss out the best players in each position in this Premier League season. Each week, we’ll select six contenders in a given position and voters will elect who belongs amongst the greats.

By the end, the best XI will be confirmed.

Before we get underway, some points of clarification: This is not a science, nor is it claiming to be. This season still has a large chunk to be played, and as Tottenham Hotspur recently blasted open the title race, that chunk has accrued a heavy bit of clout.

Premier League teams also play vastly different formations, thus some position selections risk being flawed.

But flaws are part of the fun. It’s the reason football fans stubbornly turn out to their team’s ground week in and week out, their hope for triumph undeterred from any factual evidence from week’s prior.

So, agree to debate and not get irate.

Without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the nominations for the best goalkeeper of 2021/22.

Where most goalkeeper’s statistics vacillate somewhere between clean sheets and shots saved, Alisson Becker breaks into the section typically reserved for his teammates on the opposite side of the pitch.

Alisson’s distribution and vision throughout the pitch has become even more vital to Liverpool ’s attack, attack, attack.

While Alisson’s save percentage is middle rung in the league just creeping over 70% according to FBref, the Brazilian lurks right behind Golden Gloves leader Manchester City ’s Ederson for most clean sheets this season with 12.

Ederson and Alisson will likely never escape each other, but the incessant rivalry between these two standard-bearers makes for wonderful debate fodder.

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