With a reliable confident goalkeeper just behind your defence gives a real sense of security and assurance to any side in the world, and there are a selected few shot-stoppers performing well across several areas till now this term after the 13^th game week in Barclays Premier League.

One of the most genuine ways of predicting the effectiveness of a goalkeeper is to look at his clean sheet total and in this category none have accumulated as many clean sheets as Manchester City’s Joe Hart with 7. In this top 5 list of goalkeepers there is also a surprising inclusion you don’t have imagined.

Check out the list below.

1. Joe Hart (Manchester City)

It’s been four days, yet the shock of the humiliating loss at the hand of Liverpool is still felt by Joe Hart. Manchester City conceded 4 times in the last Premier League outing, but the English goalkeeper’s two stunning saves to deny Firminho and denying Benteke with superb vision and positioning still stands for him. With 7 clean sheets from 12 league matches this season he is surely the no.1 goalkeeper till now according to stats.

Appearances – 12

Clean sheets – 7

Avg. goals conceded – 0.75

Avg. saves per games – 1.67

Avg. saves per goals – 2.50

Avg. claim success – 98%

Avg. punches – 42%

2. Petr Cech (Arsenal)

The 6ft 5in goalkeeper signed for Arseanl in the summer leaving Chelsea and after a frustrating start at home against West Ham United, when his two simple mistakes arguably rob Arsenal of any of the three points, the 33-year-old veteran shotstopper has shown his quality.
Since arriving at the North London club he has 6 clean sheets in 13 Premier league appearances not only that, the average save per game remain 2.46 which are quite sensational. Cech’s abilities so often this season had been called upon, that is a mark of the concerns still reaping within the Gunner’s defence.

Appearances – 13

Clean sheets – 6

Avg. goals conceded – 0.85

Avg. saves per games – 2.46

Avg. saves per goals – 3.56

Avg. claim success – 85%

Avg. punches – 38%

3. Boaz Myhill (West Bromwich)

A surprising inclusion surely but Boaz Myhill’s two saves in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Arsenal was pivotal. He was rather powerless on the first goal of Olivier Giroud and was lucky to see Santi Cazorla’s penalty kick unexpectedly fly over the crossbar. This season, he has conceded 17 goals in 13 matches while keeping six clean sheets in Premier League play. If you go for the clean sheets, in-form David de Gea falls behind him, but with the West Brom’s defensive style of play, Myhill is a strong option for them despite the club’s place in league table.

Appearances – 13

Clean sheets – 6

Avg. goals conceded – 1.31

Avg. saves per games – 2.31

Avg. saves per goals – 1.76

Avg. claim success – 97%

Avg. punches – 46%

4. David de Gea (Manchester United)

Since returning to the starting lineup, De Gea has produced some crucial saves for Manchester United, to name a few instances like the save in the Southampton match against the bullet header from Jose Fonte and tipping a Yannick Bolasie drive onto the bar with quick reflection. In the Watford game there was very little he could have done about the penalty at Vicarage Road. The Spanish shotstopper had much to do in the last Premier League encounter, showing a number of fine denials against Deeney in open situation, along with a master class save to tip a deflected shot from Almen Abdi. If de Gea failed to perform then the lucky escape for the Red Devils would have been really a disaster. In our top 5 goalkeepers list the Spaniard sits at no.3 with 5 clean sheets from 9 league matches.

Appearances – 9

Clean sheets – 5

Avg. goals conceded – 0.78

Avg. saves per games – 2.78

Avg. saves per goals – 3.57

Avg. claim success – 86%

Avg. punches – 67%

5. Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur)

With 4 saves from 12 league matches this season the Tottenham skipper is fifth in the list. Regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Hugo Lloris joined the Spurs in the 2012 summer transfer window and since then has been a revelation becoming the bedrock for Tottenham’s consistent performance this season also.

Appearances – 12

Clean sheets – 4

Avg. goals conceded – 0.83

Avg. saves per games – 2.08

Avg. saves per goals – 2.78

Avg. claim success – 96%

Avg. punches – 50%