No Dane, no gain: Kasper Schmeichel has been key in enabling Leicester’s progress in the Champions League Catherine Ivill“Stats! I’m not a big stats fan when it comes to keepers,” says Kasper Schmeichel, whose take on football is no-nonsense. There’s nothing fancy about the numbers, though: Of the goalkeepers left in the Champions League, three have conceded just twice — Schmeichel, Real Madrid’s Jan Oblak and Gigi Buffon of Juventus. In fact Schmeichel has as many penalty saves as goals against — remarkable for someone playing their maiden European season. “If you can’t be inspired by the Champions League, you can’t be inspired by anything.

Source: The Times April 09, 2017 00:11 UTC