Roy Keane suggests Manchester United's Premier League rivals have their own Peter Schmeichel

Roy Keane has paid Aaron Ramsdale the ultimate compliment by comparing the goalkeeper to Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel.

The England international made four saves to preserve a point against Liverpool at Anfield, including a sensational stop to keep a curling Mohamed Salah strike out. Ramsdale also denied defender Ibrahima Konate from bundling home at point-blank range deep in added time as Arsenal hung onto a 2-2 draw.

Praise from Keane for goalkeepers is rarely forthcoming - as current United number one David de Gea can attest to - but such an exceptional individual performance, which could help decide the Premier League title race, forced his hand. The Premier League pundit was running out of superlatives for the shot-stopper.

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"This is what we had at United - a brilliant goalkeeper like Peter Schmeichel - and you need your goalkeeper, you need moments like this," Keane said during Sky Sports' Super Sunday coverage.

"I’m always quick to criticise goalkeepers; I’m not a big fan of goalkeepers; I think we give them too much praise - but the last two minutes, I think it’s unbelievable. When you see the deflection [on Salah’s shot], brilliant."

Keane made one shy of 200 appearances alongside Schmeichel at United, winning the Premier League four times together. Ramsdale, comparatively, has yet to win a major trophy at the age of 24 but will hope performances such as Sunday's will change that fact over the coming weeks and months.

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