‘De Gea Is Still One Of The Best Goalkeepers In The World’- Matic

Nemanja Matic has backed David de Gea to recover from his string of high-profile errors which have hampered Manchester United’s end to the season.

De Gea has fallen short of his impeccably-high standards in recent weeks, with costly goalkeeping errors allowing Gylfi Sigurdsson, Lionel Messi and Marcos Alonso to score against United.

Matic, however, is confident De Gea will rediscover the form which ranks him among the world’s best goalkeepers.


“Players make mistakes in every game and when a goalkeeper makes a mistake everyone sees that,” Matic told Sky Sports News.

“When you are one of the best goalkeepers in the world people talk so much about his mistakes.

“When a goalkeeper at a ‘smaller’ club makes a mistake, its spoken about for one or two days, but one of De Gea’s mistakes is being spoken about for seven days.

“I’m very confident that this mistake won’t affect his career. He doesn’t read newspapers. He is one of the best goalkeepers in the world and will be for years to come. I am very happy to have him in the team.

“He is a great guy, a great goalkeeper, and is probably the best player at United over the last four or five years. He is very focused on his job and is a good character. It’s good to have people like him in the dressing room.”