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A two handed dive save is a “show save”, if you can get two hands on it you can save it without a dive. It’s always been the case.
Go out to the park and try it.
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You said "ask any goalkeeper". Well, I have played AMSL and University level both as a defender and a keeper, and I can say that is a great save. No, you ideally don't want to have it at that height, but any time you hit a ball at a good pace that is near side-netting, you're going to score more often than not.
A two-handed save doesn't cover as much ground as a one-handed, but by no means does that make it a "show-save". There is ZERO chance any goalie in the world, man or woman, could have simply "moved over" and grabbed that as you had eluded.
I do think the coach needs to take some blame here. This should be his call. Any important game I've ever played in, we all look at the coach if there's ever any doubt, though most of the time, you have your go-to guy.