Its only a matter of time before one of Neur's sweeper keeper forays results in a goal. I know its probably happened, but I can imagine the response already...still, he's better than Hart and Lloris at it, just its good for my heart when a goalkeeper does it less often.
You get used to it. After a while when you watch other teams concede goals in 1on1s, you start realising how often that sweeping prevents these situations and how rarely it costs a goal in comparison, especially if you play a high defensive line. There's also the side effect that strikers start to panic infront of goal, expecting a huge goalkeeper rushing at them and therefore often making bad decisions. That's something you have to earn as a goalkeeper. In the beginning I was way more nervous that Neuer is in constant danger of a red card with his sweeping, but his timing is so brilliant and his awareness of what's happening as well, so that even if he mistimes a sweep, he still won't commit a foul outside the box.
I would be surprised if de Gea doesn't make a significant development in that direction under van Gaal by the way. De Gea is really talented on the ball and van Gaal always prefered sweeper keepers over normal ones and brought his own goalkeeping coach with him, in my opinion for exactly that reason.
This is probably the most beautiful goal Neuer conceded after a sweeping gone wrong moment:
Well, what can you do, when Stankovic hits a volley from the half way line perfectly. He's still doing those crazy header clearances though
. It's another thing I really love about him. He trusts his judgement and even after mistakes is instantly back to his cocky self.