And yet the BBC match ratings only gave him a 5 and two 6s in the group stage, and he was almost universally acknowledged to have had an absolute shocker against Belgium, leading to even his opposite number commenting on it. He was good, I was pleased for him and for the club that he represented, but I just didn't think he was quite as good as you evidently did. I did of course say all this at the time, along with many others on your own website, but if you want to ignore that and pretend we're rewriting history because of the derby then who am I to question it.Only Courtois (25) and Ochoa (25) made more saves than Pickfords 17 in the tournament. His saves against Russia and Sweden in particular.
He also was excellent with his distribution;
There was a reason he earned headlines like the below;
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Jordan Pickford is now one of the best in the world - and here is why
Jordan Pickford kept his first clean sheet of the World Cup against Sweden.www.telegraph.co.uk
He was tremendous in the world cup.
What is it with Evertonians snarling at our better players? His own clubs fans now actually trying to take that away/undermine his performance because it doesnt fit their agenda. Really, really weird.
I think it's mainly this;
Some of you really need to give your heads a wobble.
He's been in a poor run of form, he'd benefit from some genuine competition.
*Also lol at using the cumulative number of saves made as evidence when he played more than twice as many as games as half the keepers there.