Robin Roefs

you know it's it's properly two pieces of active goalkeeping in very quick succession which is uh you know for me that's the most impressive kind of double save you can see so yeah phenomenal one for him and it's it's great to see him continue the form that he started showing against Bournemouth as well because we were talking after the after the game on Sunday and saying that was one of the vanishingly few positives you could find was that roofs actually looked like he was back up to a a similar level to last season.

I wouldn't say the same level, but that was as good as anything that we've seen from Rufus in a Sunderland shirt this season or last.

And I thought he was particularly good from...

Again, similar to against Bournemouth, actually.

I think that's fair to say.

Obviously, Bournemouth, he was decent again, so his Premier League form seems to be coming back.

But the one caveat that we did make about Rufus and his ball run was that against Alkmaar, again, he pulled off a couple of great saves and was fantastic again.

So if we can replicate Europa League Rufus for the remaining Premier League season, he's going to be back to near his best because we've seen...

It did.

And am I mistaken in saying that throw-in came from a Rufus kick?

Mm.

Yes.

Yeah

...

Rufus kicking the ball.

I think you're right.

I might be wrong.

But I'm pretty certain there's not been a single game this season where Rufus has saved more goals than he's let in.

Well, he was playing against a person keeping him out of the national team.

And I didn't think Verbruggen was great today, but he was pinging passes.

And Rufus was the exact opposite of that.

He made

one really good save at the start, didn't he? Yeah, he did.

like some guy called