Ireland's (probable) number one goalkeeper Darren Randolph was between the sticks for West Ham on Saturday evening as they visited Liverpool in the FA Cup Fourth Round.
The Bray man kept a clean-sheet and earned plaudits for his peformance, despite not having featured in the West Ham starting XI since September, as West Ham earned a 0-0 draw and will now take Jurgen Klopp's men back to Upton Park for the replay.
The highlight was easily a triple save to first keep out Christian Benteke, than to scrable and make two additional saves from the rebound:
While he probably could have pushed the ball further from danger on the first save, he made a fantastic recovery to keep the next two shots out.
After establishing himself as Ireland's best option in goal towards the tail end of the Euro 2016 qualifiers, it's good to see him putting in these performances despite not getting regular first team action.
West Ham fans on twitter were very impressed with Randolph's performance also:
0-0. Replay time! Randolph was incredible.
— Tom Baldwin (@twbaldwin) January 30, 2016
Randolph man of the match. Struggled to create chances. Ref was poor aswell but fancy us to win at home now! COYI
— Azam ⚒⚒⚒ (@AzamWHUFC) January 30, 2016
Take a draw. Could have a pen. Still in the hat. #LFC not scored against us this season. Randolph great display. Positives to take. #COYI
— Ross McGlasson (@rossmcglasson) January 30, 2016
Deserved return to UP.
Randolph to thank for that and a solid defensive display.
Get'm back to the Boleyn and have a proper go at'm ???
— ⚒ Dave.G ⚒ (@goodyhammer1) January 30, 2016
Terrible terrible match. Randolph MOM Payet completely ineffective pushed out wide. Jelavic is not good enough, Moses not fully fit ?
— Darren 父 Cox (@hammersmad) January 30, 2016
Only plus from that was randolph and the fact were unbeaten in 3 against lpool other than that nothing #coyi #whufc #ifbb
— ⚒ mark russell ⚒ (@markrussell09) January 30, 2016
Randolph made some great saves tbf
— Sarah Whelan (@SarahWheelbin) January 30, 2016
Man of the match was surely Darren Randolph ! Kept us in it with some brilliant saves pic.twitter.com/DmBPIw6fl6
— West Ham Stuff ⚒ (@WestHamStuff) January 30, 2016
One of the worst games I've ever seen. Happy with the replay. Randolph was awesome. #whufc
— George Williamson (@Willlliamson) January 30, 2016
Randolph our saviour.
— Brett ⚒ Moore (@BoleynBoy1895) January 30, 2016
Randolph biggest positive @whufc_official can take from tonight #WHUFC
— Ben Standing (@ben_standing) January 30, 2016
Darren Randolph excellent but @btsport will give Nathaniel Clyne MOTM simply because he's an England International #LIVWHU
— Tony (@MURRAYTone) January 30, 2016
Randolph > Neuer
— ⚒Tío Tony⚒ (@AGA26A) January 30, 2016
We've got Randolph
We've got Randplph
He's the wizard in the green
The best you've ever seen
Better than Gandolf
We've got Randolph
— John ⚒ (@FJohnf1964) January 30, 2016
Well done Darren.
