UBVIA: Cypriot Football: Goalkeepers Exceeding Expectations Revealed

The following article is from UBVIA.com

After looking into the best dribblers in the league, as well as ranking APOEL’s defensive players, we’ve now decided to look at all goalkeepers in the Cypriot First Division.

The main question we set forth to answer was the following: which goalkeepers have outperformed expectations, which goalkeepers have just about met expectations, and which goalkeepers have underperformed during the current season up to the fifteenth round.

To reach our conclusions, we looked at the fairly simple premise of goals conceded versus the number of goals each goalkeeper was expected to concede. The latter metric is called ‘expected goals against‘ and signified by the value of ‘xGA‘.

First things first, let us look at each column across the board. Which goalkeepers have conceded the most goals?

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