With Sadio Mane closing the space between them, Steffen put his head down to take his first touch and killed the ball in front of him nearly to a standstill.īy the time he looked up again to scan the area in front of him, Mane had closed the distance in the blink of an eye, eliminating the time and space the City goalkeeper needed to play out from the back.Īs Steffen tried frantically to manoeuvre the ball out from under his feet, Mane slid in and deflected it into the back of the City net to give Liverpool a commanding 2-0 lead early in the match. Here, he analyses Zack Steffen’s error for Manchester City against Liverpool on Saturday and Ederson’s calmness in a similar situation against the same opponents last week…Ī few minutes after Liverpool’s opening goal, Manchester City goalkeeper Zack Steffen found the ball at his feet from John Stones’ routine back-pass. He serves as a goalkeeping analyst for The Athletic. Matt Pyzdrowski is a coach and former goalkeeper who played in the United States and Sweden.
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