{"id":493235,"date":"2025-10-12T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493235\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:27:10","slug":"mamardashvili-concedes-then-saves-penalty-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493235\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamardashvili\u00a0Concedes, Then Saves Penalty Against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite Georgia losing to Spain 2-0, Liverpool\u2019s backup goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili apparently acquitted himself well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After Spain had already scored the opener, Mamardashvili fouled Barcelona star Ferran Torress in the box, giving away a penalty. However, he was able to immediately make amends, and saved the ensuing spot kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It did not change the final result (plus or minus one goal), but Spain are currently the top ranked national team in the world, so 2-0 feels like a good result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, with Alisson Becker once again out with an injury, and former standout backup Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher making a permanent move to Brentford, all eyes have turned to Mamardashvili.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Saving a pen is always a big confidence booster for a goalkeeper, and let\u2019s be honest, Liverpool players need as much confidence boosts as they can get right now after three consecutive defeats leading up to the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mamardashvili was a highly regarded keeper when we bought him last summer, and still remains the case. That said, he has huge gloves to fill\u2014both Alisson\u2019s and Kelleher\u2019s\u2014and will likely need similar heroics to help Liverpool get back to their winning ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Georgia losing to Spain 2-0, Liverpool\u2019s backup goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili apparently acquitted himself well. After Spain had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,162487,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-493235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpools-internationals","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360487465827780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}