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As a young goalkeeper at Atletico Madrid, Joel Robles was more highly rated than David De Gea. The club had three fine teen keepers, with Sergio Asenjo considered the best. All would go on to play top level football.
Watching Everton's Robles flounder through Everton's 3-1 Merseyside derby humiliation last Saturday, you wondered how he could ever be rated above De Gea, but then he came to Old Trafford on Tuesday and did what every goalkeeper seems to do there -- he had the game of his life in a 1-1 draw, this time opposite the man he once competed with in the junior teams in Madrid.