Rousing the Kop

How Pepe Reina’s Liverpool stats now compare to David Raya’s at Arsenal

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Pepe Reina’s three Golden Glove-winning seasons at Liverpool still stack up remarkably well against David Raya’s brilliant Arsenal run.The Arsenal keeper just secured his third award with three games left to play this season. Raya deserves huge credit for what he has done at Arsenal, but the comparison between their peaks underlines something many Liverpool fans already know.



Reina was seriously underrated at Anfield.Reina won the Premier League Golden Glove in three straight seasons between 2005 and 2008, keeping 20 clean sheets in 2005/06, 19 in 2006/07 and 18 in 2007/08. Raya is now on course to win his third straight Golden Glove too.

He has 17 clean sheets in 35 appearances this season, with three games still to play.Across his last three Premier League seasons at Arsenal, Raya has 46 clean sheets. It also still leaves him 11 behind Reina’s three-year Golden Glove stretch.Of course, clean sheets are never only about the goalkeeper.