Fans react as Alisson snubbed for Yashin Trophy | OneFootball

Liverpool number one Alisson Becker was not among the nominees for the Yashin Trophy, as announced on Tuesday.

The award, presented by France Football, was introduced in 2019 as the goalkeeper's equivalent of the Ballon d'Or and is named after legendary Russian stopper Lev Yashin.

Alisson was actually the inaugural winner of the trophy, comfortably beating out Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Ederson four years ago as Liverpool won the Champions League, with the Brazilian making key saves against the likes of Napoli, Barcelona and Tottenham.

The former Roma stopper, who remains widely recognised as one of the best in the world, also placed second last year, behind only Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois.

This year, however, Alisson was not even among the nominees.

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Instead the ten keepers in the frame are:

It's not the first time recently that Alisson has been overlooked, with the Brazilian also omitted from the PFA Team of the Year, despite outperforming Ramsdale in many key metrics.

It seems, once again, those making the selections have penalised the Reds' number one for Liverpool's poor campaign in 2022/23, despite his own stellar performances.

Understandably, fans were a little confused by Alisson not even making France Football's ten-man shortlist.

Discussing the importance of Alisson during Liverpool's turbulent 2022/23 campaign, Klopp noted: "He is for sure the most consistent player we have this season.

"That's actually not bad news, it's good news, because if we are not in a great shape and the level of the goalie drops as well then we would have been completely lost."

The 30-year-old, who is also part of the Reds leadership group, made 108 saves, kept 14 Premier League clean sheets and prevented a league high of over ten goals last season.

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