One challenge that Sunday’s FA Cup sport highlighted for me was the necessity to signal a brand new primary goalkeeper in the summertime.
Each Robert Sanchez and Djordje Petrovic are first rate competitors choices, however none of them persuade me that for the time being, they’re ok to be our primary primary going ahead and if we need to problem on the very high once more, we want an elite stopper within the sticks.
Petrovic just isn’t younger, he’s 24, and Sanchez is 26. For a goalkeeper you may 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 growth for each keepers right here, and I do truly imagine that Petrovic can and can get higher. However Sanchez for me I concern 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 assume he has performed effectively since coming on this season, and I’d be beginning him over Sanchez. However each keepers are usually not ok distribution clever, and for any crew who need to construct up from the again and need their goalkeeper to be snug taking the ball in excessive strain conditions, then I don’t assume Petrovic or Sanchez is our man.
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Who’s? Not my job to seek out him! However we’ve got folks on this setup now utilizing information to have the ability to discover the ‘excellent’ choice for us. Does excellent even exist? Who is aware of. However there are definitely goalkeepers on the market who can 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 definitely been potential new goalkeepers for some time and so they 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 fallacious, I’m definitely not writing Petrovic off, however he must get so much higher with the ball at his toes for me to be absolutely satisfied that he might be the common primary for Chelsea going ahead.
Sanchez simply considerations me all sport 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 objectives that he would have felt he might have saved.
The goalkeeper place is arguably one of the vital vital on the pitch, and I’m simply unsure that we’ve got sorted that place or not.
