Longshanks
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The willingness to come of your line and sweep allows the defenders to confidently push high allowing the team to squezze the space in the opposition half and successfully high press.This. Definitely. Remember when he came off his line... all the way over to the LB position? His determination to show he was not rooted to his line like DeGea resulted in some suicidal plays. He was more prone to moving around in the box, but his shot-stopping was well below DeGea, and I didn't think he was any better with his feet.
Having a GK like de gea who is less willing or confident to sweep a long way from goal means your defenders are much less confident in pushing high making it much harder to effectively high press creating space between the lines for the opposition to play into.
Not only do the stats proove that we conceded on average less goals with Henderson in nets, they also proove we played with a much higher defensive line on average aswell.
So those 'suicidal plays' he does actually help the team out they help the team out alot alot more than De geas 'better' shot stopping.