If your team is awarded a penalty, naturally you should be excited. However, if the keeper you'd have to beat is Diego Alves then you should be extremely worried. Diego Alves is a penalty king who has defied many big names in Spanish football (Messi, Ronaldo, Diego Costa, Rakitic, Griezmann, Mandzukic, Bacca) from 12 yards. The goalkeeper has faced 45 spot kicks in all competitions for Almeria and current side Valencia, and saved an incredible 22 of them. Only 21 were scored, with one off target and one hitting the crossbar.

Against Atletico Madrid on Sunday afternoon he saved two penalties in the same game, first denying Antoine Griezmann and then Gabi.

Despite his heorics, Valencia went down 2-0, with Griezmann opening the scoring and Kevin Gameiro netting a late second, sending Atletico top of La Liga for the time being.

The goalkeeper was not happy with the defeat. "I don't care about the penalty saves," he said afterwards. "I always say when penalties saved help the team win I’m happy, but I'm not when we lose.”



http://www.sport-english.com/en/news/laliga/valencia-stopper-diego-alves-amazing-penalty-saving-record-5445084

Incredible! Saving nearly half of the penalties he has faced.

which country his he playing for?

konkonbilo:
which country his he playing for?

A reserve keeper for Brazil

Good one but Handanovic of Inter is better.

tuffgongjo:
Good one but Handanovic of Inter is better.

Handanovic is not better. Yes, he's saved more penalties but his ratio of saved to not saved is poorer.

He has faced 89 and saved 34, that's 38.2%. It's lower than almost 50% save record achieved by Diego Alves