Pope has conceded just 13 league goals this season and has collected a league-wide high of 12 clean-sheets, three ahead of his nearest rivals David De Gea and Aaron Ramsdale.
But how does Pope’s in-game performances compare with other Premier League stoppers?
BetVictor has analysed how goalkeepers are performing between the sticks, each goalkeeper has been given a ‘shot stopping score’, which combines their save percentage and goals prevented rate.
Goals prevented is an advanced metric to evaluate keeper performance, it compares post-shot xG (expected goals conceded from shots faced), to how many goals a keeper has conceded, giving each player a positive or negative value for their goal prevention vs expected (PSxG-GA).
Here, we take a look at how Pope compares to the rest of the division to see who has been the best performing goalkeeper in the league this season.
9. Hugo Lloris
Save percentage = 70.5%, goals prevented per 90 = -0.11, shot stopping score = 7.42 Photo: Mike Hewitt
10. Emiliano Martinez
Save percentage = 68.4%, goals prevented per 90 = -0.02, shot stopping score = 7.46 Photo: Richard Heathcote
11. Vincente Guaita
Save percentage = 71%, goals prevented per 90 = -0.02, shot stopping score = 7.66 Photo: Warren Little
12. Aaron Ramsdale
Save percentage = 72.5%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.03, shot stopping score = 7.89 Photo: Stuart MacFarlane