Top 10 Goalkeepers in Football during the 2017-18 Season

#9 Keylor Navas - Real Madrid

Real Madrid v Barcelona - La Liga

Hombre de fe.

Keylor Navas’ recently launched biopic was aptly titled ‘Man of Faith’, but the Costa Rican has taken quite a hit to his belief in 2017. Yes, Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League and La Liga, but Navas’ end to the 2016/17 season was less than assured.

The keeper that looked nigh on impregnable in 2016 allowed embarrassing errors to creep into his performances in 2017 - albeit Madrid’s shaky defence of late has hardly helped him.

Kaylor Navas. His shot stopping numbers have always been great. Only a very marginal drop off last season, but other than that he has consistently conceded less goals than expected pic.twitter.com/Vj4CcnQQtf

— Colin Trainor (@colintrainor) December 30, 2017

Navas is still an exceptional keeper though, capable of some stellar performances in the big moments of big games such as El Clasico. Real Madrid may want David de Gea and Thibaut Courtois, but in the man their fans call ‘God’ there is still the capacity for redemption in 2018.

All it takes is faith.

If Keylor Navas were Spanish or South American, there'd never be any talk about the need to replace him. He's a great goalkeeper from a country that hasn't historically produced great goalkeepers, and that jars people.

— Leander Schaerlaeckens finally fits in this space (@LeanderAlphabet) December 23, 2017