Inside Carrington podcast Senne Lammens discusses mentality with Ben Foster

Senne continues: “When I was growing up, I had more difficulties with it because, as a young goalkeeper, it’s difficult. I wasn’t always the best one in my age group. And I also made a lot of mistakes. As a young goalkeeper, it’s really difficult sometimes to get over those mistakes. But then you just keep working on it.

“It’s also confidence, doing the work, the prep, every day in training and just having the confidence to do it in the game as well. It’s nothing different than in training. I think also having the same prep every time for a game. 

“You feel at ease and the same. Warming up the same leading up to a game, so every game is quite the same, even though every game is different during the game itself. So just having that mindset a little bit. 

“I did some psychology work when I was growing up, but now I don’t really need it. I help myself more and I like to journal a lot as well, to be honest, writing down a little bit after every game. It makes it easier on the mind, as well, to not always think too much after games. Just write it down and then it’s out of the head.”