Trafford isn’t any stranger to profitable silverware.
He was the hero for England within the 2023 Below-21 European Championship last, saving a last-minute penalty to assist the Younger Lions beat Spain and win the competitors for the primary time in practically 40 years.
Final season, he amassed an unimaginable 29 clear sheets in 45 matches to assist Scott Parker’s Burnley bounce instantly again to the Premier League and have become the primary goalkeeper to assert the Championship Participant of the 12 months prize on the PFA awards.
This season, he stored one other shutout to assist Metropolis beat Arsenal within the Carabao Cup last at Wembley, whereas he’s additionally anticipated to start out Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final in opposition to Southampton after saving a Mohamed Salah penalty in opposition to Liverpool within the earlier spherical.
Trafford mentioned: “Everybody enjoys the larger video games, the more durable video games, however I may be talking in another way if we received overwhelmed in them. The cup sport it’s a must to win, as a result of should you do not win then until I get in [for] the league – which I have not up to now – then there is no such thing as a sport [for me].
“It is clearly a brand new expertise for me as a result of it’s the first time I’ve had this type of second the place you are available for the cup video games, however the benefit of this membership and this season is we now have progressed in each the cups so far as we presumably might have up to now.”
