In Thomas Tuchel's eyes, all its goalkeepers in England are the same.
“These are the four that we believe we can build our team,” Tuchel said in his squad presenting on Friday. “Immediately, we want to give the message that it is a new beginning for everyone.”
Soon it will decide which one is more like the others. Managers always do it.
Jordan Pickford from Everton, Aaron Ramsdale de Southampton, Dean Henderson by Crystal Palace and James Trafford, on the side of the Burnley championship, are the quartet that will fight as number 1 of England for when the World Cup arrives next year.
Throughout the reign of Gareth Southgate, that number 1 has been Pickford, and for a good reason. Rainted and proud, Everton's talisman has been a great player for the big moments. Just think about the penalty of the penalty against Colombia in the 2018 World Cup in Russia and all the heroic of the shooting they followed.
Is that enough for Tuchel? Due to all the team's guardians, the most suitable for how he likes to play is not Pickford. Advance, James Trafford, 22 years old.
Thomas Tuchel still has no favorites when it comes to England's goalkeepers
Jordan Pickford has been England number one for so long, but his time could be ready
Tuchel can opt for James Trafford, the 'most appropriate guardian for how they usually like
Many can remember the young man as the goalkeeper who sent 62 goals in 28 Premier League games last season for Burnley before losing his place on the road to the descent.
The previous summer, he had saved a penalty of 98 minutes in the final of U21 euros, since England claimed his first 39 -year title under Lee Carsley.
This season, after a summer movement to Newcastle failed, has been the rock bed of an innocent Claret team in the championship and has granted only 11 goals in 37 league games with 26 clean sheets. He has saved more than 86 percent of the shots he faced in the championship this season, the best rate of the four in England.
The savings percentage is often a deceptive statistic that simply factors in the amount of shots facing a guardian, regardless of whether they are directly in it or the corner, from the blank range or 40 yards away. Of course, Trafford is also playing in a lower division where strikers are not as clinical as they are in the Premier League.
However, even when it considers the precision and quality of the shooting in the objective facing, it still stands out. The expected objectives in the objective (XGOT) measure the power and placement of a shot to evaluate the probability of finding the network and, according to that, Trafford has avoided more than 11 league goals this season.
Henderson, meanwhile, has prevented almost six for the palace. Pickford has stopped one more than the anticipated shots in their target, while Ramsdale has acted as expected.
However, it is not this shooting skill the great reason why Tuchel wants to give him a chance to Trafford. It is the good thing that is with the ball at your feet.
Tuchel liked his goalkeepers to feel comfortable in possession. “Every time we bundles, I wanted the goalkeepers involved,” said Roman Burki, Tuchel's goalkeeper in Borussia Dortmund, Mail Sport.
Trafford adjusts to the mold and is an exceptional southern, even if it is in the championship
Former Borussia Dortmund Raten Roman Burki told Mail Sport that Tuchel likes goalkeepers who are comfortable in possession, a feature that Pickford does not play exactly England for England
Pickford has created memories for a lifetime among sticks like England number one
During his time in Chelsea, his first choice goalkeeper, Edouard Mendy, played 94 percent of his successful passes within his own half. They have only been 68 percent of Pickford's completed passes this season. Almost 90 percent of Trafford has.
Pickford loves to go for a long time. In the euros last summer, since England often struggled to keep the ball, only 22 of the 294 Pickford passes throughout the tournament fell short. In the Premier League this season, it has spent a lot of time with almost two thirds of his passes.
Sean Dyche and David Moyes could want him to do that, but you don't expect Tuchel to feel the same. In all his former clubs, his first choice goalkeeper has never made more than one in three of his passes.
Trafford, meanwhile, is the only one in the quartet that stir less than half of his passes.
Pickford may not be short very often, but it is excellent for sweeping the danger. No Premier League goalkeeper has performed more defensive actions outside his penalty area than him and only Ederson and David Raya, in Manchester City and Arsenal, make them above in the field.
While Tuchel had one of the best sweeps of all time in Bayern in Manuel Neuer, his teams have not been renamed to need a guardian of all the action, turning off the danger in the field.