Keepers with the most clean sheets since 2000 – where does Manuel Neuer rank?
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This Friday legendary goalkeeper Manuel Neuer celebrates his fortieth birthday. The German has received all of it; to World Cup winner in 2014 and a Champions League winner twice with Bayern Munich. While strikers typically steal the headlines and midfielders dictate the tempo, it is generally the goalkeepers who quietly rack up the numbers that outline elite consistency. From Premier League legends to LaLiga icons and Bundesliga brick partitions, Transfermarkt you have got crunched the numbers to disclose the goalkeepers with the most clean sheets in Europe’s high-5 leagues since 2000. These are the males who’ve made a behavior of retaining the opposition out.
Goalkeepers with most clean sheets in high-5 leagues since 2000
Leading the manner is known Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. The former Juventus participant managed 263 clean sheets in 560 video games in the high-5 leagues for Juve, Parma and PSG. In second place is Spaniard Pepe Reina who clocked up 255 clean sheets in 665 matches for Barcelona, Villarreal, Liverpool, Napoli, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Aston Villa, Lazio and Como – one thing of a journeyman. In third place is Manuel Neuer with 245 clean sheets in 542 video games – the German may nonetheless add to that determine and climb the checklist with Bayern Munich subsequent season.
Former Chelsea and Arsenal keeper Petr Cech is fourth with 231 clean sheets in 513 matches, whereas ex-Slovenian keeper Samir Handanovič fifth takes with 204 clean sheets in 566 video games. In sixth is Hugo Lloris with 204 clean sheets in 579 matches. He is adopted in seventh by Thibaut Courtois with 200 clean sheets in 465 video games – the second participant on the checklist nonetheless enjoying in the high-5 leagues. In eighth place is Atlético Madrid keeper Jan Oblak with 185 clean sheets in simply 395 matches. Steve Mandanda is ninth with 184 clean sheets, adopted by fellow Frenchman Mickael Landreau in tenth with 183 clean sheets.
