CELTIC goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has already won plenty of prizes in his career.
But there’s one that looks likely to elude him – and it’s a current Hoops TEAMMATE who he reckons is to blame for it!
There was a costly penalty decision for Kasper Schmeichel[/caption]
Schmeichel and Jeffrey Schlupp were teammates at Leicester[/caption]
They’re teammates again at Celtic[/caption]
Schmeichel, 38, joined Celtic last summer on a free transfer from Anderlecht.
He was the penalty shoot-out hero as the Hoops beat Rangers in a thriller to win the Premier Sports Cup back in December.
With a 16 point lead in the Scottish Premiership and a Scottish Cup quarter-final on the horizon, Schmeichel will be looking to add more silverware this season.
The goalkeeper also achieved plenty of success in England.
He was part of the incredible Leicester City team of the 2015/16 that won the Premier League title in one of most remarkable triumphs in sporting history.
Denmark No1 Schmeichel also won an FA Cup, a Community Shield and a Championship title with the Foxes.
But there was one other accolade he was gunning for during his time at Leicester.
That prize was the Premier League’s Golden Glove.
Mirroring the Golden Boot given out to top goalscorers, the Golden Glove is won awarded to the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets at the end of the season.
Former Celtic stopper Joe Hart has won it four times, a joint-record with ex-Chelsea and Arsenal star Petr Cech.
But it was an award Schmeichel was very much gunning for too.
The Arsenal keeper finished with 16 clean sheets – just one more than Schmeichel.
Appearing on The Overlap’s Stick to Football, Schmeichel revealed it was a current Celtic teammate who ultimately cost him the honour!
Co-host Jamie Carragher quizzed Schmeichel on the Golden Glove, with the Hoops keeper replying: “(A clean sheet) gives you a platform to win the game, obviously.
“But it’s not that important to keep a clean sheet. The most important thing is to go and score goals and win the game.
“But, listen, the year we won the league I lost the Golden Glove because of a penalty.
“Someone gave away a penalty at Chelsea. I was going for the Golden Glove.”
Schmeichel appeared content in NOT naming the culprit – but Carragher wasn’t about to let him off easily!
He asked: “Who gave it away?”
Schmeichel immediately said: “Jeff Schlupp.”
Carragher replied: “See you don’t forget do you!”
It isn’t only Schlupp who Schmeichel has a bone to pick with – N’Golo Kante also copped a bit of the blame!
The keeper continued: “We had the game before against Everton, we had the chance and N’Golo Kante missed his first tackle of the season and Kevin Mirallas scores.
“That definitely sticks on your mind because you figure out, you find out that there are you know, certain times in careers that you might have a chance to win these things.
“I never played for teams in the Premier League that were always competing for these kind of things but I had one chance to win the golden glove and it didn’t happen.
“And that’s of course, as a vanity thing, of course that’s something you look back and think ‘oh God, I’d have loved to have had that’ but at the end of the day, after the Everton game I was stood with the real trophy.”
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