Roy Keane has paid Aaron Ramsdale the ultimate compliment by comparing the goalkeeper to Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel.
The England international made four saves to preserve a point against Liverpool at Anfield, including a sensational stop to keep a curling Mohamed Salah strike out. Ramsdale also denied defender Ibrahima Konate from bundling home at point-blank range deep in added time as Arsenal hung onto a 2-2 draw.
Praise from Keane for goalkeepers is rarely forthcoming - as current United number one David de Gea can attest to - but such an exceptional individual performance, which could help decide the Premier League title race, forced his hand. The Premier League pundit was running out of superlatives for the shot-stopper.
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"This is what we had at United - a brilliant goalkeeper like Peter Schmeichel - and you need your goalkeeper, you need moments like this," Keane said during Sky Sports' Super Sunday coverage.
"I’m always quick to criticise goalkeepers; I’m not a big fan of goalkeepers; I think we give them too much praise - but the last two minutes, I think it’s unbelievable. When you see the deflection [on Salah’s shot], brilliant."
Keane made one shy of 200 appearances alongside Schmeichel at United, winning the Premier League four times together. Ramsdale, comparatively, has yet to win a major trophy at the age of 24 but will hope performances such as Sunday's will change that fact over the coming weeks and months.
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