It’s not as if most of the previous clean sheet leaders didn’t benefit from a good defense.
Most clean sheets is just an easy way to determine a winner of a meaningless award. No need for any more complicated critieria cos no one really cares anyway.
I mean Raya has made 6 less appearances. Probably doesn’t add up to much but more clean sheets in less appearances is probably more impressive to me
Golden glove secured thanks to adebayo.
Trivia: Who was the last Arsenal keeper before raya to win the golden glove?
Crazy that szczesny was our first winner 
even funnier that he tied with Cech who then came and won it with us.
Cech 15/16 season
Finally official
15 clean sheets.
Unbelievable considering how poor he started
Well done Raya and well done to entire team for being such a solid defensive unit.
Teams have to come up with something special to get past us.
Have to also give credit to the back 4 for the clean sheets too, they’ve all been immense for most of the season too.
Been insane defensively this season, the back 5 should be very pleased with themselves
His performances weren’t much different back then. He was still as good at claiming balls into the box. He was still as good with the ball at his feet.
It’s just that people at the time were desperate to get on Arteta for benching Ramsdale.
I think it even extends all the way up and through midfield and attack, we do a majority of our defensive work before the ball gets inside our box.
Yeah, it is absolutely a whole team effort
Got into a convo with someone online about Raya.
Bloke commented to say he didnt rate Raya and that he was a flapper, to which I said, he isn’t, and that claiming crosses is actually one of his biggest strengths.
Got a reply saying that he trusts his own eyes, but he then went rather quiet when I produced stats showing that Raya has stopped a higher percentage of the crosses he has faced than literally any other keeper in the top five European leagues.
Some people are so anti statistics in football that they think you can justify counter factual statements by referring to “the eye test” lol
Your eyes are defective mate, not to be trusted.
Nah this is just lazy narrative.
He perhaps didn’t know that Raya was good at it and just went with the best criticism that a keeper could have.
At best, I would say perhaps he looked at some of the goals we conceded like Mudryk goal or Fulham equaliser; and then he made up his mind.
Otherwise Raya has not been put into such scenarios often enough for a non-regular viewer to notice where he is a flapper or not.
If you didn’t show me the stats, I would have known if Raya was great at claiming crosses because this season there was hardly anything for Raya to do apart from the spurs game.
He couldn’t pull off one of those dresses. Not a chance.
Edit: Hold on, you guys had flappers in the UK in the 1920s right?
I don’t know none of us were around at that point
The answer to that is yeah, sort of.
Certainly the term is recognisable enough for people to know what you meant.
