Caoimhín Kelleher

Kelleher reads a penalty before it is struck, watching the hips and the standing foot rather than simply guessing a side to dive. That habit comes from years of shootout practice and training ground repetition, the kind of preparation a understudy goalkeeper does quietly while somebody else takes the headlines and the praise. He stays calm inside the moment other goalkeepers find hardest to control, which is why important saves keep arriving whenever games are settled from twelve yards.

The harder question is how he adapts to being first choice rather than cover, after years spent proving himself in short bursts of opportunity behind a more established name. Shot stopping across a full campaign of league football asks different questions than a single cup night ever could. Watch how he commands crosses into a crowded box, because that part of the job tends to reveal itself only once a goalkeeper is trusted every week.