The world’s best goalkeeper walks into a small room and folds his enormous frame into a plastic chair. On his right cheek is a three-inch scar – a football boot to the face can do that – and on a table nearby is his first trophy in English football.
Gianluigi Donnarumma of Manchester City earned that first piece of silverware within an hour of wearing his new club’s colours for the first time. The Italian’s right-handed stretch to deny Bryan Mbeumo in September’s Manchester derby earned him the Premier League’s save of the month award.