Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is tremendous excited, and it’s all for Alisson Becker. And the lanky Indian custodian doesn’t thoughts doing a Becker someday quickly. Alisson Becker, the Liverpool FC goalkeeper got here off his line to move dwelling the match-winner in opposition to West Bromwich Albion, the 2-1 victory conserving Liverpool’s probabilities of making it to the UEFA Champions League alive. “I simply can’t cease watching his header once more, and once more. Maybe it simply occurred – the ball fell in place and out of pure dedication he glided the ball – and what a header! But if he’s doing that frequently in apply, then we’ve got to confess that he’s additional particular,” he opines.
Do you want to emulate him?
“Not that I am desperate to do it, and I hope that I don’t have to do it ever. Obviously, there have been quite a few times that I have gone up for my club Bengaluru FC, and also during my stint with previous clubs,” he mentions.
“But if the group requires it as per the state of affairs, who is aware of? But I might moderately go away it to Sunil Chhetri. He is a lot better at it than me,” Gurpreet’s laughter almost breaks the ceiling. “I have to work on me attacking the ball, and on my heading. But I don’t mind it,” he smiles once more.
“For a modern-day goalkeeper, the significance of being good together with your ft is paramount. Gone are the times when a goalkeeper was only a shot-stopper,” Gurpreet, an Arjuna Awardee, adds.
“Personally, it was an exciting challenge to undergo the transition phase. When I started professionally, the trend was more to save shots. The first instructions which I received were to kick the ball back to where it came from. But it’s changed now,” the primary Indian participant to characteristic in a Europa League (for Norwegian aspect Stabaek FK) match expressed.
“The goalkeeper must provoke the assault, assist the group construct up on the possession. His distribution needs to be impeccable. However, I’m nonetheless a scholar of the sport and dealing on the identical. There is a protracted approach to go,” he expresses.
“And now I know, a goalkeeper needs to head it perfectly too,” he laughs once more.
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