De Gea.
Because Henderson's nationality is 50% of his quality on here. So if we're discussing De Gea v Henderson, it must be de Gea, because we should focus on skill, not on a passport.
It's not about skill or ability, it's mostly to do with how each fits into the team and the style Ole wants to play. From that perspective Henderson is the better fit in nearly every department.
Then about you look at the stats on how the team perform with each in goal? Henderson is the better fit, I posted all these yesterday.
Then look at individual stats, Henderson performs better in nearly every metric.
That ranking is based on post-shot xG, it accounts for the fact that different shots have varying difficulties. Clearly, goalkeeping stats have to account for the fact that some shots are easier than others.
I looked this up after it came up yesterday. It's basically the difference between should have scored and should have saved it. Only someone has put numbers on them.
The only stats that matter in this context for Utd are the overall team performance with either Henderson or De Gea in goal. With Henderson in goal, on average the team concedes less goals, keeps more clean sheets and wins more games.
I don't know why people can't see this as a positive thing, rather than accepting it, they try to go beyond it by putting the xs and post shot xg stats as if it means something more than whether or not it is better for the team to have one over the other.
If De Gea is already letting in more goals, what is there to say that he would save chances that Henderson lets in?
Conversely, if Henderson is letting in less goals what is there to say he wouldn't save some of the chances De Gea lets in?
