He doesn’t tend to catch the eye, or stand out from the crowd. He doesn’t say much in the media to big himself up.
Instead, Lukasz Fabianski goes about his work in an unfussy way, making important saves at important times, just like top goalkeepers are supposed to do.
Yet West Ham’s No1 hardly gets a mention when it comes to discussing the best keepers around.
Ederson, Alisson, David De Gea, Hugo Lloris — such names habitually dominate the agenda.
But when it comes to mistakes, I reckon Fabianski has made fewer than most over the last couple of years.
Thanks to sound decision-making and good positioning, his unspectacular work often goes unnoticed.
Derided as Flappy-Handski during his time at Arsenal, the Pole has developed into a keeper of real substance, someone to depend on week in, week out.
