Pandur made an early professional debut for top-flight outfit Rijeka at the age of just 19 having been a youth cap for his country.<\/p>\n
It earned him a move to Serie A with Verona the following year, saving two penalties on his debut in a Coppa Italia win over Venezia.<\/p>\n
However, he would only make 11 appearances there before joining Fortuna on loan with an option to buy and quickly established himself as first choice, as well as earning a permanent move to the Dutch top flight.<\/p>\n
Only six months into a four-year contract, Pandur was sold to Hull and, although it took eight months for him to be handed his debut, he established himself as first choice thereafter.<\/p>\n
His form dipped amid transfer speculation during his second season in Humberside, but he played in all but one of Hull’s 46 Championship matches last term and became only the fourth goalkeeper in history to keep clean sheets in both play-off semi-finals and final.<\/p>\n
With a reputation for being an excellent shot-stopper but less adept with the ball at his feet, Pandur kept 14 clean sheets last season in his 48 games, making 150 saves at a save percentage of 69.8% and 66 minutes per goal.<\/p>\n
In comparison, Butland’s 38 games yielded only two fewer clean sheets, making 104 saves at a higher save percentage of 70.7% and 79 minutes per goal. <\/p>\n
The Englishman’s four penalty saves were also two more than Pandur’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pandur made an early professional debut for top-flight outfit Rijeka at the age of just 19 having been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-770995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}