Position Review: Goalkeepers
This preview is going to be brief as, in short, I don't believe there are many 'keepers that warrant our attention. If we look at last year's points accumulation we see that with relatively few exceptions, the greatest predicator of points is simply playing games. Unless something goes seriously wrong, you should at least enjoy 6 starts between the sticks, which gives you somewhere around 18-20 points if you pick even an average player and don't rotate based on fixtures. Even with Navas' five clean sheets, the PSG man still lost 2 points for conceding twice to Real Madrid, and only picked up four save points which equates to 32 points in the group stage (ignoring the penalty save which isn't really a repeatable skill, especially for better defenses). A 10 or 12 point difference isn't nothing but (a) that assumes you pick the right elite 'keeper, and (b) that one of the cheaper options doesn't become a top performer themselves (as Gulasci did last sea...