Jordan Pickford
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Got a feeling Tuchel leaves him out of the Wales game and he won't get the chance to get the record.
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Ah yes the commentsCereal Killer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 08, 2025 6:14 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... me9kw4l3eo
Some stats drivel from the bbc intern, and avoid the comments
always good for a laughRe: Jordan Pickford
Given opinions will be formed based on vague memories of England penalty shootouts and match of the day highlights, then filtered through partisan club based bias, I'd say the comments are generally supportive overall.
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It's clean sheets in consecutive appearances for England, rather than consecutive matches - he missed the Senegal match, where Henderson shipped 3.
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Lee Dixon is always damning him with faint praise, pisses me right off.
The facts speak for themselves, he is the best keeper England have at the moment, it shouldn't even be a question that needs answering.
The facts speak for themselves, he is the best keeper England have at the moment, it shouldn't even be a question that needs answering.
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By James Gray
Sports News Correspondent
England have a Jordan Pickford problem
The England No 1 can move clear of the great Gordon Banks by claiming a record eighth clean sheet in a row against Wales on Thursday
October 07, 2025 6:01 pm
Pickford has been England’s No 1 since the 2018 World Cup (Photo: Getty)
Only one man has played in goal for England more than Jordan Pickford.
The great Peter Shilton is the country’s all-time most capped player – in any position – with 125 appearances but you have to go nearly 50 more matches down the list until you find Pickford on 78.
The mid-seventies has been a bit of a high watermark for previous goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David Seaman and Gordon Banks all passed 70, yet Pickford looks destined to go well beyond them. He is undeniably England’s No 1, and has been for the best part of a decade.
His domination of the position under Gareth Southgate and now seemingly under Thomas Tuchel has provided stability at the back, upon which England have reached more major finals and semi-finals than at any point in their history. Southgate handed debuts to five other keepers, but only Nick Pope has made it to double figures for England, with 10 caps.
The Everton keeper has started every Premier League game so far this season (Photo: Getty)
The upshot is that should England find themselves without Pickford at next year’s World Cup, there is a worrying lack of international experience among the potential replacements.
And given Pickford’s statistically poor start to the season – his decent display against Crystal Palace notwithstanding – it is possible this is the season he loses that iron-clad grip on his place.
“It is a fight for every position, there is no exception for goalkeepers,” Tuchel promised in June. Now he needs to show he is true to his word, and give someone else a chance to stake a claim.
There can be little argument that Pickford is the man in form. While the Everton keeper led the Premier League in “goals prevented” last season (a statistic based on the post-shot expected goals of every shot a keeper has faced), he languishes eighth in that same table this campaign.
Now the sample size is smaller, but of the seven ahead of him, four are English: Pope, Sam Johnstone, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, who leads the league with 2.9 goals prevented.
The Crystal Palace keeper also finished fourth overall in the Premier League last season, helping them to FA Cup victory and a place in Europe. Yet the 28-year-old has just three England caps to his name, and only one of those – a 3-1 win away to Finland – has been earned in a competitive fixture, and most recently he featured when England were beaten by Senegal.
Archetypically, Henderson is a very good fit to be Pickford’s back-up. In the Premier League last season, only Nottingham Forest launched long from the goalkeeper more often than Everton, and Crystal Palace were just behind the Toffees.
This year, both Pickford and Henderson are going long approximately 50 per cent of the time in open play, and although the former has a higher completion rate on long balls of 39 per cent to his understudy’s 29, it is clear that their default style of play in possession is quite similar, and their percentages of goal kicks taken long are also well aligned. It’s a like-for-like swap.
But Henderson still has not had the same kind of exposure to the extreme high pressure that comes with playing for England at a World Cup, or even close, while Pickford has started in two Euros finals and a World Cup semi-final.
For Pickford, a friendly against Wales and a trip to Latvia represents little more than an opportunity to break the record for consecutive England clean sheets that he holds tied with Banks on seven. For Henderson, they would be invaluable opportunities to make himself more comfortable in an England shirt, a distinctly alien experience with three caps in five years.
By next summer, there could be significant clamour for Henderson to start, on current form. But for it to be a convincing argument, he needs to be given more chances now.
Sports News Correspondent
England have a Jordan Pickford problem
The England No 1 can move clear of the great Gordon Banks by claiming a record eighth clean sheet in a row against Wales on Thursday
October 07, 2025 6:01 pm
Pickford has been England’s No 1 since the 2018 World Cup (Photo: Getty)
Only one man has played in goal for England more than Jordan Pickford.
The great Peter Shilton is the country’s all-time most capped player – in any position – with 125 appearances but you have to go nearly 50 more matches down the list until you find Pickford on 78.
The mid-seventies has been a bit of a high watermark for previous goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David Seaman and Gordon Banks all passed 70, yet Pickford looks destined to go well beyond them. He is undeniably England’s No 1, and has been for the best part of a decade.
His domination of the position under Gareth Southgate and now seemingly under Thomas Tuchel has provided stability at the back, upon which England have reached more major finals and semi-finals than at any point in their history. Southgate handed debuts to five other keepers, but only Nick Pope has made it to double figures for England, with 10 caps.
The Everton keeper has started every Premier League game so far this season (Photo: Getty)
The upshot is that should England find themselves without Pickford at next year’s World Cup, there is a worrying lack of international experience among the potential replacements.
And given Pickford’s statistically poor start to the season – his decent display against Crystal Palace notwithstanding – it is possible this is the season he loses that iron-clad grip on his place.
“It is a fight for every position, there is no exception for goalkeepers,” Tuchel promised in June. Now he needs to show he is true to his word, and give someone else a chance to stake a claim.
There can be little argument that Pickford is the man in form. While the Everton keeper led the Premier League in “goals prevented” last season (a statistic based on the post-shot expected goals of every shot a keeper has faced), he languishes eighth in that same table this campaign.
Now the sample size is smaller, but of the seven ahead of him, four are English: Pope, Sam Johnstone, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, who leads the league with 2.9 goals prevented.
The Crystal Palace keeper also finished fourth overall in the Premier League last season, helping them to FA Cup victory and a place in Europe. Yet the 28-year-old has just three England caps to his name, and only one of those – a 3-1 win away to Finland – has been earned in a competitive fixture, and most recently he featured when England were beaten by Senegal.
Archetypically, Henderson is a very good fit to be Pickford’s back-up. In the Premier League last season, only Nottingham Forest launched long from the goalkeeper more often than Everton, and Crystal Palace were just behind the Toffees.
This year, both Pickford and Henderson are going long approximately 50 per cent of the time in open play, and although the former has a higher completion rate on long balls of 39 per cent to his understudy’s 29, it is clear that their default style of play in possession is quite similar, and their percentages of goal kicks taken long are also well aligned. It’s a like-for-like swap.
But Henderson still has not had the same kind of exposure to the extreme high pressure that comes with playing for England at a World Cup, or even close, while Pickford has started in two Euros finals and a World Cup semi-final.
For Pickford, a friendly against Wales and a trip to Latvia represents little more than an opportunity to break the record for consecutive England clean sheets that he holds tied with Banks on seven. For Henderson, they would be invaluable opportunities to make himself more comfortable in an England shirt, a distinctly alien experience with three caps in five years.
By next summer, there could be significant clamour for Henderson to start, on current form. But for it to be a convincing argument, he needs to be given more chances now.
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So the basis of that article is that Pickford is too good and England would have a problem without him, so they should not play him?
The constant undermining of his England No.1 status is mental. You don't change your national No.1 on the basis of there being other English keepers with some better stats than him a few games in to the season. Unless of course they're going to start clamouring for similar for every other position in the team?
The constant undermining of his England No.1 status is mental. You don't change your national No.1 on the basis of there being other English keepers with some better stats than him a few games in to the season. Unless of course they're going to start clamouring for similar for every other position in the team?
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Its just odd isnt it, on par with the England would be better if they dropped Kane brigade.
And if Tuchel cares about niche performance stats in early October, he'd have picked Grealish who has the league's most assists.
And if Tuchel cares about niche performance stats in early October, he'd have picked Grealish who has the league's most assists.
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So it’s Pickford’s fault he’s good - not only that but it’s his fault no manager has put a succession plan in place for if he can’t play.
How very selfish of him
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It’s all fun and games until the keeper that replaces him in friendlies etc consistently make a complete fucking hash of it.