Bernd Leno is Arsenal’s first choice goalkeeper, and is now officially the new number 1.
The German sported 19 last season, while Petr Cech had the traditional goalkeeper’s number, but now that the Czech has retired, Leno has taken it.
The former Bayer Leverkusen man had a good first season in England despite the team’s disappointing performance overall. In part that was due to the fact he was so busy, and although we conceded 51 goals in the Premier League you couldn’t fault the keeper for too many of them.
Playing behind a porous defence ensured Leno was required to make more saves than he might have liked, but not even he could make up for the deficiencies in our rearguard, while the Premier League website says he made 5 errors leading to a goal (which seems a bit high but I guess they’d know).
Hopefully he’ll have better protection next season, and a bit less to do while wearing his new number.
Bernd Leno stats 2018-19
Clean sheets 6
Saves 105
Well deserved!
Still think his first name needs more vowels…
Maybe we should call him bernod len
His vowel-to-consonant ratio is higher than that other Polish keeper we had….
He’s the 1 that we want…
Seems weird to play 32 games and only catch the ball 6 times (even allowing for the fact that modern keepers, especially continental ones prefer to punch).
oh I guess “high claims” are counted separately
We make a lot of high claims.
Like when we say we want to be one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
wish I could like ur comment twice
ONE.L.ENO
Leno was a decent enough signing for £19 million, he seemed to win us more points than he cost us last season.
And knowing how much Martin hates him, just makes me love him just a little bit more.
Leno ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Interesting to see Martinez, Illiev and Macey compete for second keeper jersey this pre-season.
Slow news day on the transfer front then….