Premier League winners and losers: Ramsdale shines but PGMOL loses with Salah

Roy Hodgson proved that no-one can read a Premier League team quite like him, while Chelsea’s fourth manager of the season brought no change to their luck.

Winners

Aaron Ramsdale

A football team is made up of 11 players, and even though the goalkeeper wears different colours, they are still a part of that team. At Anfield, and despite conceding two goals, Aaron Ramsdale put in a performance for Arsenal that was worthy of a championship.

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It’s been a longstanding complaint that goalkeepers don’t get the credit they deserve, but Ramsdale’s performance against Liverpool spared his team what could yet prove to be a crucial point come the end of this contracting season.

Manchester City remain an object in the mirror which may be closer than it appears, lumbering along in Arsenal’s tailwind, arms outstretched and groaning, and giving up a two-goal lead from such a commanding position invites inevitable questions, such is the electron microscope under which each tiny twist and turn is scrutinised. But if strikers can be celebrated for scoring winning goals, then goalkeepers should be too, for producing actually match-winning – or in this case point-saving – saves.