A 4-0 scoreline usually means a quiet night for the goalkeeper. Not this one. Lukas Jungwirth made five saves to keep his sheet clean as LASK put four past ŠK Slovan Bratislava in the Champions League, finishing with a match rating of 8.8.
The scoreboard tells one story: a one-sided rout, LASK scoring four without reply. But Jungwirth's night tells another. Five stops against a team that was being outscored by four goals is not the workload of a keeper watching paint dry. Slovan kept testing him even as the game slipped away, and every one of those five chances went straight back out.
Earning It
There is a particular kind of clean sheet that gets handed to a goalkeeper, and there is the kind that gets earned. Jungwirth's belongs to the second category. Five saves in a 4-0 win means his side's attack did the damage at one end while he made sure nothing came back at the other. It is the sort of performance that often gets buried under a big scoreline, since nobody remembers the keeper when the forwards are doing the celebrating.
LASK will take the three goals of breathing room this result represents, but Jungwirth's 8.8 rating is the number that reflects his own afternoon. Five saves, zero goals conceded, and a final whistle that confirmed a shutout against ŠK Slovan Bratislava.
For a keeper, there is no better combination than a resounding scoreline in front of him and a busy night behind it. Jungwirth got both.