In his defence it was a free-header in the middle of the six yard box. That it was a pretty poor and saveable header makes Pickford look daft, particularly the bizarre jumping into the post thing.
I don't really understand why Pickford was in front of his near post when Gundogan was about to cross and therefore had to sprint to get back into the middle of the goal. There's protecting your near post and then there's just bad positioning and I think it was definitely the latter.
I still blame the useless twat for it. Like you say, his positioning was awful initially, but if you look at Haalands shape he's not going to go for a flick, he's going to go for power and T Rex should have anticipated that, instead he goes flying past the fucking thing (and the ball). He's just a clown.
For the freekick, while the dive is a clown dive, I don't really blame him for not getting to it. I've had a keepers eye view of an Alonso freekick from the Kop and by the time you see the ball it's too late to move. Ali counters this by making sure he can see the run up, then starts moving before the kick, to give himself the best chance of getting the ball.
