The importance of having a good goalkeeper is sometimes underplayed. Strikers generally get the biggest salaries as they are the ones scoring the goals.

However, preventing a goal from being conceded is just as vital. No team wins a league title without a top-class shot-stopper.

Some games are decided on the finest margins so having a keeper who can pull off a big save at a key moment can be the difference in terms of the club’s points total at the end of the season.

Press the next page as we rank the best Premier League goalkeepers so far this campaign (based on the Opta stat ‘Goals Prevented’).