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Easier to get close to? There is reason players are told to head it back across goal...that it’s difficult for the keeper to get to because he has to cover the near post and centre of the goal or he’s gifting it!

The fault for the second is all down to allowing the cross and the awful cover. As I said it was a great header that was perfect slotted into the space that is inevitably left by the keeper needing to cover the side of the goal closest to the attacker.

Could he have done better? Well maybe at a push but I don’t think many, if any, keepers are saving that.
It was a cross with zero pace, a header with zero pace. It wasn’t a tight angle (at which point I’d expect the keeper to cover his near post), his angles were all completely wrong. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t fault elsewhere, but 8 times out of 10 a keeper would save that second goal. He’s in the wrong position and flat footed, meaning he can’t even make a meaningful effort to save it.