One thing on the technical side that has stood out from a goalkeeping perspective throughout the round-robin knockout table stages, are the basic mistakes. The kind that you don't think or expect goalkeepers at this standard to end up making. But . Both David Carter and Jamie Cachia were unfortunate enough to allow goals they would definitely want back: Cachia being scored on through the legs on a PC against India, whilst Carter allowed an easy one against Malaysia, which came off his right kicker unexpectedly. Whilst Rocke was nutmegged stepping off his line against England and being already committed and therefore unable to really respond positively.
Not to sound condescending or overly harsh as you read this: because there is a flip side to this side of things. At this level, it is easy to get caught in the trap of over complicating things when 'reading' what is going on in front of you and expecting the difficult. And as the goalkeeper expects to be forced into making a wonder save or something more, they can over egg themselves mentally, causing them to doubt themselves and therefore struggling with the basics. By going back to the basics and forcing that as the first priority in game time, this can be dealt with positively. In fact, those wonder stops come from strong basics: positioning, angles, depth and attacking the shot, so it is important to remember that!
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