Top Rated Keepers in the Serie A

Top Rated Keepers in the Serie A
by Steve Amoia for Keeper Skool.

Keeper Skool reader Matteo contributed an excellent commentary about the best keepers from the EPL. While I can’t match his detailed descriptions, what I would like to do is to provide a similar round-up of the Italian Serie A in statistical terms.

Ratings from La Gazzetta dello Sport

This publication is the Wall Street Journal of Italian football. After each game, their journalists rate players on a scale between 1 and 10. To provide you with an idea, most ratings are between 4.5 and 7.5. The Italian word for such a thing is “Pagelle,” and “Portieri” means keepers. The following list covers the first 37 fixtures. Please note how close the first five are in this table. If you click on each name, you will see a game by game analysis for each player.

1. Alberto Fontana of Palermo: 6.47.
2. Matteo Sereni of Torino: 6.45.
3. Sebastian Frey of ACF Fiorentina: 6.44.
4. Julio Cesar of Internazionale: 6.43.
5. Gianluigi Buffon of Juventus: 6.35.
6. Alexander Doni of AS Roma: 6.29.
7. Alexander Manninger of Siena: 6.25.
8. Marco Storari of Cagliari: 6.22.
9. Zeljko Kalac of AC Milan: 6.19.

For the sake of comparison, the best outfield player in the Serie A is Mauro Camoranesi of Juventus. His rating over 37 games is 6.61.

Source: La Gazzetta dello Sport, “Pagelle dei Portieri.”

Goals Against in the Serie A

I will list these by team rather than by keeper since not all of the top rated shot stoppers played the entire campaign and/or every fixture. Please note that a few teams close to the relegation zone (Catania: status uncertain, Siena: safe, and Torino: safe) made the top ten.

1. Internazionale: 26 goals conceded.
2. Juventus: 34 goals conceded.
3. AS Roma: 36 goals conceded.
4. AC Milan: 37 goals conceded.
5. ACF Fiorentina: 39 goals conceded.
6. Sampdoria: 43 goals conceded.
7. Siena: 43 goals conceded.
8. Catania: 44 goals conceded.
9. Torino: 48 goals conceded.
10. Udinese: 49 goals conceded.

Year to Date Statistics from the Serie A

Played matches	370
Remaining matches	10
% played	97%
Home wins	46%
Draws	29%
Away wins	25%

Goals	938
Goals per match	2.54
Away goals per match	1.05
Over 2.5 goals	46%
Under 2.5 goals	54%

For comparative purposes, here are the figures from the Barclay’s Premiership:

Played matches	380
Remaining matches	0
% played	100%
Home wins	46%
Draws	26%
Away wins	27%

Goals	1002
Goals per match	2.64
Home goals per match	1.53
Away goals per match	1.11
Over 2.5 goals	45%
Under 2.5 goals	55%

Statistics courtesy of Soccer Society.

Steve Amoia is the author and editor of World Football Commentaries. He writes for Soccerlens and Keeper Skool.