Ben Hamer believes he could develop into a regular penaltysaver - because he often manages to read the intentions of the spot-kick taker.
Hamer brilliantly denied Albert Adomah's second half effort to ensure another cleansheet and all three points at Barnet on Saturday.
And the stopper is convinced it is the shape of things to come.
"He kind of made it pretty obvious and opened up early so I knew he was going there [to my left]. I dived early and made the save," Hamer said.
"I don't practice penalties but we have a muck about now and again in training.
"I've not been bad at penalties since I was at school and I think my ratio's been pretty good since I turned pro. I think I've saved four out of six penalties in my career so it has been good.
"I like to stay big and don't like to go down early and sometimes you've just got to guess.
"You've got to be lucky sometimes but I'd like to think that sometimes I can read what he is going to do and make the save."
Hamer believes justice was done with the penalty save because he felt Adomah - who had won the spot-kick - conned the ref by diving after a challenge from Brett Johnson.
"It was a dive and obviously he knew that so the way I see it, it was justice that I saved the penalty," Hamer said.
The return of the Reading keeper on a season's loan could prove to be an astute move by Andy Scott.
The player believes he is maturing fast and will put last year's experience to good use. He was also level-headed enough not to lose his cool with officials after the penalty award.
"Obviously last year I had my knocks," he said.
"I came into the team, then was out of it then back into it again. Obviously that's made me a stronger person and I've got that experience from last season and can perform well this year.
"Today in the first half we were obviously on top but the second half proved quite tough but we ground the result out and the boys are all happy."
Mindful of a fine all-round contribution as well as the penalty save, an appreciative Scott said: "Ben's attitude since he's been back with us has been first class and he's a changed character.
"Last year helped him a lot with the ups and downs that he had and sometimes as a young professional goalkeeper, if you can come through these times of adversity it really helps you.
"His focus and attitude this year has been absolutely spot on and I don't see any reason why he can't go and be a top goalkeeper. We're just pleased to have him for this year and if he goes on to be a top keeper then it shows that Brentford have done well."
The Bees did just enough to claim all three points at Under-hill.
After being in complete control during the first half - taking the lead with a Glenn Poole penalty - Brentford made hard work of their victory during an at times nervous second half as they battled against both their namesake Bees and the famous sloping pitch.
Despite a few near misses - including the penalty to Barnet - Brentford's recently assembled defence held firm, marshalled by the outstanding Hamer.
Scott said: "I'm always disappointed. I'm a perfectionist and want us to go and win three and four nil every week. But things don't work like that.
"You've got to give credit to the other team sometimes.
"We never really got going in the second half. If you do that then you give chances away. Having said that we got another clean sheet. In this league you're going to have to come away to places and win 1-0 and do it scrappy.
"We can see that when we're attacking we've got players who can produce that bit of quality that gives us chances and we just need to be a bit more ruthless in what we do.
"I'm not where I want to be. We've still got players to come back from injury. We know what we've got to work on."
Match Summary BARNET (0) 0 BRENTFORD (1) 1 Line-up: Hamer; Newton, Wilson, Bennett, Johnson; Williams, O'Connor (Bean 69), Pead, Poole (Ademola 84); Elder, MacDonald (Connell 87). Subs not used: Brown, Phillips. Att: 2,815 GOALS: Poole, pen (10)
MoM: Ben Hamer
