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Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest , Wednesday 28th November 19.45 K.O

Any keeper beaten at his near post, as Nyland was, is beaten because his position is wrong.
Nyland, for example, was at least one good step too far back and a half step too far to his right.
As a keeper the nearer you are to the one taking the shot, from an angle, the more of the goal you deny the shooter to aim at.
The closer to the bye-line the shooter is, the closer to the bye-line the keeper should be.
The further out the shooter, the closer the keeper should get to the shooter. That doesn't mean that the keeper should rush out and dive at the shooters feet in the hope of getting the ball but, should be far enough out to cut down the amount of space the shooter has to aim at.
The keeper shouldn't make the first move but, should stay on his feet and force the shooter to make a decision and then react.
Too many keepers nowadays make the first move, which makes it easier for the shooter to decide what to do. If they were to stand and concentrate on what the shooters shooting foot is doing, they stand a far better chance of making the save.

Nyland was beaten by a shot which was very close to him and low. A lot of goals are scored that way; goals under or nearly under the keeper are a swine to defend, which is why a lot of forwards when one on one with the keeper shoot through the keeper rather than round him.

Being closer to the attacker wouldn't have helped in that situation. What's more, it wasn't a straight one on one; Grabban was engaged in a tussle with Tuanzebe. It was a great, very clever goal. Grabban slowed very slightly and shot it through Tuanzebe's legs; think it may have glanced of Tuanzebe on the way through.

Difficult to defend. Nyland should probably have made a better go at defending it; he was slightly slow to react. But it would have caught a lot of keepers out. Disastrous keeping it was not.
 
Nyland was beaten by a shot which was very close to him and low. A lot of goals are scored that way; goals under or nearly under the keeper are a swine to defend, which is why a lot of forwards when one on one with the keeper shoot through the keeper rather than round him.

Being closer to the attacker wouldn't have helped in that situation. What's more, it wasn't a straight one on one; Grabban was engaged in a tussle with Tuanzebe. It was a great, very clever goal. Grabban slowed very slightly and shot it through Tuanzebe's legs; think it may have glanced of Tuanzebe on the way through.

Difficult to defend. Nyland should probably have made a better go at defending it; he was slightly slow to react. But it would have caught a lot of keepers out. Disastrous keeping it was not.

I didn't say Nyland was a disaster in any way.
In fact the whole debate started because I was saying that that fifth goal was the only one that I could lay any blame for at his door.