Reina continues to be a rock for Liverpool

To date, Liverpool haven’t  enjoyed most successful of seasons, but they have at least been able to rely upon one man for the majority of the campaign to provide them with a solid and reliable base from which they can build, and that is Pepe Reina.

Although pundits have tended to focus mainly upon goalkeeping disasters, of which there have been plenty so far this year already in the Premier League, or on England’s number one Joe Hart and his continuing development at Manchester City, Pepe Reina has been kept largely out of the limelight with his solid if not headline-grabbing performances, but the Andy Gray betting picks suggest he’s one of the best keepers around.

With Roy Hodgson all too aware that he owes a real debt of gratitude to his keeper, he was quick to praise the influence that Reina has had on Liverpool so far this season, despite the fact that he had little to do throughout Liverpool’s 3-0 demolition of Aston Villa last night, a match that saw Reina become the quickest Liverpool goalkeeper ever to reach one hundred clean sheets in the league and the footballbetting shows just how much he has helped his side.

If Hodgson is to continue to avoid hearing doubts raised about his future at the club, of which there have been many over the past few months, he knows that Reina will need to add to his clean sheet tally on an almost weekly basis. However, with the goalkeeper still not certain to stay at Anfield despite only recently being offered a new deal, the immediate future of Liverpool FC may rest on the club’s ability to persuade their talented keeper to stick around at the club.

Should the club fail to do just that, then all of the good work that Hodgson and the club’s new owners have done is likely to fall by the wayside as the club seek desperately to replace the man who is arguably the best keeper in the league.