Gary Neville expressed his belief that David Raya was outstanding against Liverpool this evening and is emerging victorious in the debate over who the best goalkeeper at Arsenal is.
The Spaniard, who joined the Gunners in the summer, has been under scrutiny for much of the first half of the season due to some shaky performances. Despite expectations, Raya claimed the number one shirt from Aaron Ramsdale.
Ramsdale, known for his amiable personality, has made it a challenging task for Raya to convince fans that he is the right choice for the Gunners.
Mikel Arteta, however, has voiced his confidence in Raya, asserting that the Spaniard is the best goalkeeper at the club. Raya’s performance against Liverpool likely added weight to Arteta’s endorsement.
Neville thought he did very well and said on Sky Sports:
“From an Arsenal point of view, they’ll be happy. It’s a step forward, getting a point here.
“The question marks over the goalkeeper will subside slightly, he had a really good game – particularly second half.
“The question remains up top, have they got a centre-forward who will take them to the title?”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Raya was in fine form against Liverpool, like most of our players, and we are not surprised at Neville’s comments about his performances.
Hopefully, he will remain in fine shape for the rest of the season.
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Good old Gary has forgotten that we got a point at Anfield last season as well, when saying it’s a “step forward”.
As for his opinion regarding Raya, he did play well today and the emphasis is on “today”.
I think the difference between this and last season Ken, was we threw it away by losing our cool and riled the subdued Anfield crowd all by ourselves, or to be precise Xhaka. This year, it was all we should of got, a draw, or maybe less, to be honest but it was a more level perfomance. Not the boom and bust of last season.
I agree that we clung on by our finger nails last time and the Xhaka incident certainly fired up the crowd in a match that we were in a position to win
On yesterday’s game, the stats showed just what an even match it was and both sides had plenty of chances. It’s worth remembering that a VAR decision went our way yesterday when on another day Odegaard’s handball might have been given as a penalty. And at Anfield too.
Over the course of the game I thought a draw was fair to both sides. Alexander-Arnold should have done better with the boom against the crossbar and possibly Havertz as one example, didn’t make the best of a weak left footed shot on goal.
There were fine margins in the game. It was frenetic to watch and easier on the nerves for the neutrals.
The point we took at anfield last season cannot be described as a step forward, considering that we surrendered a 2 goal lead, liverpool wasn’t great last season and our title push was dented there. Stop the debate, Raya is better than Ramsdale.. this disgusting debate is happening only because ransdale is British and raya is Spanish.
Not from me, i don’t believe he is but it doesn’t matter anyway.
I really hope nationality has nothing to do with the debate. imo Raya easily had his best performance of the season yesterday and appears to be more comfortable in his coordination with his defense.
I personally don’t believe Raya should have ever been brought in but he’s obviously been chosen to be a regular starter at this point so we should support him as gooners. We should also not be afraid to give criticism of him as appropriate or for that matter his selection for a particular match.
We should count ourselves lucky because we have two top goal keepers in the premier league.Whether Raya or Ramsdale between the sticks doesn’t matter what matters is the results. Every player fought hard at anfield and I urge them to keep on keeping on!
After our Epl draw game last night away to Lverpool, The pertinent point that SHOULD be pointed out bare. Is Arsenal NEED to sign a new top quality regular goals scoring striker of Premier League top grade and experience during the upcoming winter transfer window..and who if Arsenal sign him preferably very early in the window,will bring something different to the Gunners offense than what is currently obtaining at the offense department of the team.
So that the new signed striker if signed. Will help take the Arsenal team forward considerably during the 2nd half of the season. In terms of regular goals scoring that CAN/WILL decisively win matches for Arsenal in all the three major competitions that the Gunners are competing in them to win titles for us Arsenal this season.
In this wise, does Arteta think that Dominic Solanke who currently plays for AFC Bournemouth fits the bill for him? if he thinks he would.
Let him tell Arsenal to sign him for his Arsenal team early next Jan Trf window.
The current football playing form of Ivan Toney who is linked to Arsenal for signing. But who hasn’t play any competitive football game to know if he is still at the top level he was can’t be determined. Not until after he has returned from his serving a ban.