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.
17. Bernd Leno
Save percentage = 77.7%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.2, shot stopping score = 8.67 Photo: Richard Heathcote
18. Nick Pope
Save percentage = 82.1%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.13, shot stopping score = 8.84 Photo: George Wood
19. Neto
Save percentage = 83%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.35, shot stopping score = 9.41 Photo: GLYN KIRK
20. Kepa Arrizabalaga
Save percentage = 81.5%, goals prevented per 90 = +0.54, shot stopping score = 9.73 Photo: Justin Setterfield