Easter Loan Report: Goodman and Whitworth continue clean sheet charge

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22 Apr 2025

As is tradition, Easter weekend has seen clubs up and down the country face back-to-back games on Good Friday and Easter Monday - including nearly all of our loanees. Find out how they all got on in the Loan Report below!

Starting between the sticks, both Owen Goodman and Joe Whitworth are once again taking the limelight as they added to their remarkable clean sheet tallies over the Easter action.

Goodman didn’t have a save to make for AFC Wimbledon on Friday, as he saw his side play out a 0-0 draw against play-off chasing Chesterfield at Plough Lane. He almost followed this up with another clean sheet on Monday away at Gillingham, but the Dons were narrowly edged out by a single goal.

Despite Goodman recording a 21st clean sheet of the season, Wimbledon’s recent results have seen them slip out of the automatic promotion spots in League Two. With two games remaining of the regular campaign, they’re currently in fifth place - five points off the automatic promotion spots and four clear of those chasing the play-offs.

It was a similar story for Whitworth, as he also kept a clean sheet for Exeter City in a 0-0 draw on Friday against Burton Albion and then fell to a defeat on Monday against Crawley Town.

A 16th clean sheet of the campaign for Whitworth means he is only second to Ryan Allsop in League One - goalkeeper for the league winners Birmingham City.

Both Whitworth and Goodman feature in Palace TV’s latest series Loan Life, where we go behind the scenes and get an unprecedented insight into their loan spells both on and off the pitch - click HERE to watch now!

Danny Imray had an outstanding few days over the Easter weekend for Bromley. He has recently pushed up to play as a winger for the Ravens, rather than as a full-back or wing-back as he has been previously known for.

On Friday, he was brought down in the box and won what proved to be the decisive penalty for Bromley - helping them to a 1-0 win over basement League Two club Morecambe. With that clean sheet and key moment under his belt he replicated the feat on Monday - forcing an own goal late on in another 1-0 win away at Swindon Town.

Elsewhere in League Two, Tayo Adaramola also had strong performances for Bradford City over their two games. He played the full 90 in their 1-1 draw with fellow promotion chasers Notts County on Thursday, before getting a vital assist in a chaotic 3-3 draw with Chesterfield.

This was his third assist of the campaign since making the mid-season move to Valley Parade in February. The Bantams are currently in third place in League Two, three points off top spot and one point ahead of the play-offs with two games remaining.

Defender Aziz Ouedraogo, who joined Palace in the summer of 2024, has been out on loan at SV Beveren in the Belgian Challenger Pro League and has impressed in recent weeks.

In his fourth consecutive start on Friday, he kept a third clean sheet - helping Beveren to a 4-0 win against RSC Anderlecht Futures and securing a promotion play-off spot for his side. They will now face Koninklijke Patro Eisden Maasmechelen over two legs in their promotion play-off quarter-final.

Centre-back Chris Francis kept back-to-back clean sheets for Dagenham & Redbridge in their two fixtures over the Easter weekend. Making his return from suspension on Friday, he guided his side to a 1-0 win over Ebbsfleet, before holding on to a 0-0 draw away at Braintree Town on Monday.

Francis and the Daggers currently sit in 21st place in the National League, two points off safety with two games remaining.

Also amongst the clean sheets was Rob Holding for Sheffield United. He started his second game for the Blades on Friday and played 85 minutes in a 2-0 win over Cardiff City. Jesurun Rak-Sakyi also featured in this game for 78 minutes.

Holding did not feature in the following game on Monday, a narrow 2-1 defeat to now-promoted Burnley. Rak-Sakyi came on as a second-half substitute for half an hour, but could not stop the Clarets from securing their promotion back to the Premier League. The Blades will have to settle with a play-off spot.

Across the water in the Republic of Ireland, centre-back Seán Grehan kept his second clean sheet for Bohemian since joining in February. He played the full 90 minutes in their 1-0 win over Cork City and then followed this up by helping his side to a last-gasp 3-2 win away at Shamrock Rovers.

Central midfielder Jack Wells-Morrison was a key component in Solihull Moors’ back-to-back wins on Easter weekend. He played the full 90 in their 2-1 win against Tamworth and their 3-2 win over Boston United - both wins were accompanied by late goals for Solihull.

Asher Agbinone and Jemiah Umolu were both unused subs for Gillingham and Port Vale respectively over the most recent set of games, as was Jeffrey Schlupp for Celtic in their win over St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup semi-final.

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