Alexander Schlager of LASK Linz and Cican Stankovic of RB Salzburg are clearly the two best goalkeepers in the Austrian Bundesliga and also the best for the Austrian national team. Now, we have due to that, two interesting aspects. Firstly, the question is who is the number one in Austria’s national team. Secondly, usually RB Salzburg try to buy always the best players in each position of the Austrian Bundesliga if they are still young and have potential to improve. In light of this, It’s reported that the 24-years-old goalkeeper Schlager is a target of RB Salzburg.
Considering these two aspects, we will now look in this tactical analysis in the form of a scout report at both of these goalkeepers and compare them to answer who should be Austria’s number one and if RB Salzburg should spend their cash on Schlager.
Statistical comparison
Before we talk about both keeper’s strengths and weaknesses and look at in-game examples, we compare the stats of the goalkeepers of the two best Austrian sides at the moment. You can see a bar graph below with the statistics of both goalkeepers for this season in the Austrian Bundesliga.
First of all, you have to consider that Schlager played in every single game of the 22 matches in this year’s campaign while Stankovic missed four games as he got injured in the UEFA Champions League match against Napoli.
However, still we can see that Schlager has way more clean sheets with 10. The 24-years-old Austrian was able to keep a clean sheet in 45.45% of his matches in the Austrian Bundesliga while Stankovic just finished 27.78% of his games without conceding a goal. Anyways, these values don’t say that much as the goalkeeper is not the only one who is responsible for keeping the clean sheet as he has still 10 men in front of him who should avoid that the opposition even gets in the right position to score.
