[Devongone]

Pickford's save was the one of the strangest looking saves I've seen. Everything about it was wrong. From the way he was slapping at the air to the contact he made with the ball, smacking it down as it hit his hand in a way he didn't intend. I can't quite work out whether his reflexes are lightning fast or are slowed down a tad by his own very obvious permanent anxiety. Certainly, he does things and gets into bodily positions that aren't reminiscent of any other top-class keeper. He's a genuine oddity, but internationally it seems to work. Somehow to my amazement it is working. The save was brilliant. It had a kind of alien magic to it. If you put me in charge of Everton I wouldn't know whether I wanted to rely on this strange performer to save me relegation, or whether a safer, more orthodox keeper might generate the confidence that defence obviously needs.

You can't do better than letting none in, except in your own mind you want to catch every ball, kick every kick and handle every ball perfectly. But the rest of the world just wants to see another zero.

I fear Mbappe might beat him all ends up with one, because he sometimes strikes the ball a stride earlier than anyone else. But as a betting man it isn't a bet I'd make.