Clean Sheets

In this week’s edition of the Football Interview, Kelly Somers speaks to the Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. They discuss ambitions for his club side this season, breaking Gordon Banks’ record for the number of consecutive clean sheets for England and his love of motocross.

To label Alisson's 100th clean sheet as a Liverpool GoalKeeper, Jurgen Klopp provided the Brazilian a shirt with his popular number one followed by two added zeroes on the back side. Klopp kidded that the numbers characterized the" 100 lifesaving saves" his GoalKeeper makes each season. Alisson fired back" It might have been more."" possibly he's true," Klopp conceded with a chortle. Alisson will work very hard to add to his pile of clean sheets after pulling up with an injury at the ending of a 1- 1 draw away to ManCity in belated November- a match in which Liverpool's watchman was unexpectedly skittish, yet still conspired to form a couple of excellent stops. Now is the last updates on Alisson's fitness: Alisson's kicking throughout the loftiest- of- the- table competition against Manchester City at the Etihad had been aimless. It was his sliced volley that Nathan Ake blocked before weaving striker and teeing up Erling Haaland's nature. By the ending of the game, Alisson still had not edged up. As the pounding hooves of Haaland came charging towards him, a snoozing Alisson was accelerated into aclearance.However, it was clear that thing was imperfect when the Brazilian half- heartedly prodded at an truly not stronger kick in the same angle of play, If the injury had not been done with thatover-extension. Once the ball had gone out for a corner, Alisson dropped to the turf clinging his right hamstring. Klopp, with no replacements available, watched on in horror as his goalkeeper groggily returned to his work for the set work. Haaland rose to meet the delivery but guided it hardly wide of a goal narrowly covered by an immobile Alisson. Mercifully for Liverpool, the final seconds passed by without circumstance. The German trainer admitted that the harm done to Alisson wasn't as severe as first stressed." No," Klopp said," but bad enough. Bad enough." Ahead of Liverpool's Europa League tie against LASK on Thursday 30 November, Klopp revealed the extent of Alisson's damage." He'll not play tomorrow, not on Sunday, likely not the week after. also it should be kind of all right." By Klopp's estimation, Alisson will surely be sidelined for the visit of LASK and Fulham's Premier League trip to Anfield on 3 December. As the winter matches list gathers fume, Liverpool have two another top- flight matches in the coming week, although displacement- hovered Sheffield United and out- of- form Crystal Palace are hardly the most unfriendly hosts. If Alisson isn't accelerated back for Liverpool's final Europa League group game against Union Saint- Gilloise which will probably be a breathless rubber- also the Brazilian may not join until the derby with Manchester United on 17 December. In the same game against City, Liverpool lost Diogo Jota to an injury which" will take a little bit longer" according to Klopp. Yet, while the Reds can call upon the likes of Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo to fill in for Jota in the forward line, Alisson's absence leaves a far lesser hole.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's 100th game in charge of Man Utd didn't go according to plan, and we ask: has his time at Old Trafford been a success or failure so far? Jasper Taylor is joined by Ben Ransom and Gerard Brand to discuss whether he'll reach 150 or 200 games (03:55), as well as praise for Mikel Arteta's Arsenal for a perfect gameplan on Super Sunday (14:21). Plus we look at how Chelsea shut up shop with four straight clean sheets, and in particular how Hakim Ziyech has impressed (21:11). In the Regional Review we speak with Mark McAdam about all things Southampton and Brighton (35:56) - can Saints break into the top six? - and on the Treatment Table we assess how Liverpool have coped in defence as Nat Phillips puts in a MOTM performance against West Ham (50:28). Listen to every episode of the Sky Sports Premier League Podcast here: skysports.com/sky-sports-premier-league-podcast You can listen to the Sky Sports Premier League Podcast on your smart speaker by saying "ask Global Player to play the Sky Sports Premier League Podcast". For all the latest football news, head to skysports.com/premier-league For advertising opportunities email: [email protected]