Wenger: Almunia among world's best
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Arsene Wenger has branded keeper Manuel Almunia ‘world class’ and compared him to the very best in The Premier League.
The unheralded Spaniard has kept four successive clean sheets, prompting the Arsenal manager to liken him to Edwin van der Sar and Petr Cech.
The 31-year-old came to Arsenal’s rescue on Tuesday night, in their 1-0 Champions League win over Roma, with a superb finger-tip stop to deny Marco Motta.
It was Almunia’s 15th clean sheet of the campaign, a statistic that has not gone unnoticed by his manager.
Wenger said: “He does not get the credit he deserves, but if these performances last it will happen.
"He is up there with Van der Sar and Cech. You can only keep clean sheets, you cannot do much better.”
The Arsenal manager admitted the keeper had only suffered one bad game all season, in the 4-4 draw with Arsenal.
“Almunia has had a good season. I think his one difficult game was against Tottenham and the fans are less forgiving for a game like that than any other game.
“I think we have two world class keepers in Almunia and Lukasz Fabianski.”
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lol... -
i don agree
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joke
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HAHAHA
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I also dun agree, The Best is Peter Schsomething de (Denmark GOalie)
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I think its a Confidence boosting comment... Just like Mourinho said Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the best player in the world... Or Lampard is the best in the world when he was at Chelsea... Errr... is this what they meant by talking cock? lol
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If he is really one of the best then why wasn't he in the spain national team?
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Paul Robinson is the best keeper in England history!