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.
13. Lukasz Fabianski
Save percentage = 72.1%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.08, shot stopping score = 7.97 Photo: Julian Finney
14. Jordan Pickford
Save percentage = 74.3%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.06, shot stopping score = 8.09 Photo: Stu Forster
15. David Raya
Save percentage = 77.4%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.11, shot stopping score = 8.44 Photo: Clive Rose
16. Alisson
Save percentage = 72.3%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.38, shot stopping score = 8.67 Photo: Michael Regan