One difficulty that Sunday’s FA Cup recreation highlighted for me was the necessity to signal a brand new primary goalkeeper in the summertime.
Each Robert Sanchez and Djordje Petrovic are respectable competitors choices, however none of them persuade me that in the intervening time, they’re adequate to be our most important primary going ahead and if we wish to problem on the very prime once more, we want an elite stopper within the sticks.
Petrovic isn’t younger, he’s 24, and Sanchez is 26. For a goalkeeper you’ll be able to argue that this IS younger, and also you’d be appropriate. You’d even be appropriate saying that there’s nonetheless room and time for improvement for each keepers right here, and I do truly imagine that Petrovic can and can get higher. However Sanchez for me I worry simply lacks the boldness on the ball and within the sticks to be something greater than a backup.
Petrovic I do maintain a bit extra perception in although, and I truly suppose he has performed effectively since coming on this season, and I’d be beginning him over Sanchez. However each keepers should not adequate distribution sensible, and for any group who wish to construct up from the again and need their goalkeeper to be snug taking the ball in excessive stress conditions, then I don’t suppose Petrovic or Sanchez is our man.
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Who’s? Not my job to search out him! However we now have individuals on this setup now utilizing knowledge to have the ability to discover the ‘excellent’ possibility for us. Does excellent even exist? Who is aware of. However there are actually goalkeepers on the market who could be higher suited to be Chelsea primary proper now, and I actually imagine that is simply one other place we have to be trying to signal on this summer season.
Chelsea have actually been potential new goalkeepers for some time they usually do like Aaron Ramsdale at Arsenal and have been keeping track of that state of affairs. In addition they have a eager curiosity in Mike Maignan and Diogo Costa. However they’ve but to make any contact or strikes for a brand new goalkeeper, with perception in each of the stoppers they’ve.
Don’t get me flawed, I’m actually not writing Petrovic off, however he must get loads higher with the ball at his toes for me to be absolutely satisfied that he may be the common primary for Chelsea going ahead.
Sanchez simply issues me all recreation and flaps at crosses, whereas I do have extra confidence with Petrovic within the sticks. Even nonetheless, while his shot stopping has been fairly good, he has additionally let in some targets that he would have felt he might have saved.
The goalkeeper place is arguably some of the necessary on the pitch, and I’m simply undecided that we now have sorted that place or not.
