Real Madrid Keeper lets in fewest goals per game in two decades

In just one season Keylor Navas has become one of the best goalkeepers in Real Madrid's history having conceded just 0.82 goals per game - the best average in 20 years.

It took just nine months to convince his teammates and the fans that he had the quality needed between the sticks for Los Blancos.

Game after game, he has been one of their best players.

His decisive performances have helped Zinedine Zidane's side fight for the La Liga title until the very last game and who now have the chance of being crowned European champions in Milan on May 28 for the 11th time.

The numbers speak for themselves.

On Saturday against Deportivo La Coruna, the Costa Rican clocked up his 22nd match without conceding a goal this season - the 13th clean sheet for him in the league.

Keylor Navas 2015/16 34 games 28 goals 0.82 goals

Iker Casillas 2014/15 32 35 1.09

Diego Lopez 2013/14 36 36 1.00

Diego Lopez 2012/13 24 31 1.29

Casillas 2011/12 34 31 0.91

Casillas 2010/11 35 32 0.92

Casillas 2009/10 38 35 0.92

Casillas 2008/09 38 52 1.37

Casillas 2007/08 36 32 0.89

Casillas 2006/07 38 40 1.05

Casillas 2005/06 37 38 1.03

Casillas 2004/05 36 30 0.83

Casillas 2003/04 37 50 1.35

Casillas 2002/03 38 42 1.11

Casillas 2001/02 25 27 1.08

Casillas 2000/01 34 37 1.09

Casillas 1999/00 27 25 0.93

Bodo Illgner 1998/99 34 56 1.65

Canizares 1997/98 26 30 1.15

Illgner 1996/97 40 31 0.77

Navas played in 34 of the 38 league games and only let in 28 goals, which is the best average in the club's recent history and puts him close to Illgner's record set in the 1996/97 season.

The German played 40 games that year and only picked the ball out of the net 31 times to give an average of 0.77 per match.

Since then, no other keeper has been able to surpass him, not even Iker Casillas in the 14 years he was first-choice keeper.

The closest he came was in 2004/5 when he played 36 games and let in 30 goals to give an average of 0.83, which the current No. 1 has already beaten by a fraction.

The other two keepers who have played regularly in the past 20 years do not even come close.

Diego Lopez let in an average of one goal per league game in 2013/14 while Santiago Canizares had an average of 1.15 goals in 1997/98.

So the current keeper has already made history in the league but his statistics in Europe are not far behind.

He is unbeaten in the Champions League at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu where Real have hosted five games.

Away from home he has only let in two goals which were in the quarterfinals against VfL Wolfsburg.

These two goals ended a winning streak of 738 minutes without conceding a goal, which is the second best record in the history of European competitions - surpassed only by Jens Lehmann with 853 minutes.