I got cramp in goal once. A bloke who was on the floor grabbed my ankle as I was going for the ball. I thought I'd been shot! So you can get cramp in goal. Loads of players do now seem to get cramp, outside managerial instructions. They are young, fit and spend their whole week training to play just 90 minutes + VAR prevarication time and they can't manage it without lying on the grass howling for some bloke to provide inexpert manly manipulation. Why?
As for Goodman I think you are hard on Lee Grant Theo. Goodman was an unusually confident lower-division keeper for two seasons. This season he has been nervous as a kitten apparently throughout. How was Grant meant to outguess that? AND it is commonplace for out-of-form keepers to turn around their form simply because their manager keeps faith with them. Being dropped often means the keeper takes on board all the bad feelings he'd been having about himself anyway. Any goalie really knows when he is making mistakes - deep in his soul (which I don't believe in anyway!) For his manager it is either stick with him, or potentially destroy him.
Take the confidence out of Manuel Neuer, what do you have left? A gobby flop loved by no one?
As for Goodman I think you are hard on Lee Grant Theo. Goodman was an unusually confident lower-division keeper for two seasons. This season he has been nervous as a kitten apparently throughout. How was Grant meant to outguess that? AND it is commonplace for out-of-form keepers to turn around their form simply because their manager keeps faith with them. Being dropped often means the keeper takes on board all the bad feelings he'd been having about himself anyway. Any goalie really knows when he is making mistakes - deep in his soul (which I don't believe in anyway!) For his manager it is either stick with him, or potentially destroy him.
Take the confidence out of Manuel Neuer, what do you have left? A gobby flop loved by no one?