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Ian Wright says £25m Chelsea player is making all of his teammates scared at the moment
Chelsea seem to be devoid of any sort of confidence at the moment as they continue to slide down the Premier League table.
Indeed, Chelsea are struggling right now, and speaking on the , Ian Wright has singled out one player for criticism.
Robert Sanch♊ez has made a number of ꦑmistakes this season, and Wright believes the man is a problem at๊ Chelsea.
Sanchez has been heavily criticised this term, and according to the pundit, the Spaniard is having a negative affect on the rest o💃f hi꧅s teammates too.
Wright says that Chelsea’s players aren’t confident when Sanchez is in goal, c😼laiming that his pꦜresence scares a number of his teammates.
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Robert Sanchez is scaring his Chelsea teammates
Wright spoke about Sanchez’s presence at Chelsea.
The pundit says that he doesn’t think Chelsea will mak♎e the Champions League next season at this point, claiming that there’s no way Chelsea’s players can be confident in any game when Sanchez is on the pitch.
“There’s no way you can be♔ confident playing in front of that goalkeeper, there’s no way I can see any scenario where Chelsea will do it because of this. If I’m Newcastle, Bournemout𝓡h or Brighton, this is the best chance you will have, because I don’t think Chelsea will make it,” Wright said.
“You have a goalkeeper you’re scared of, you don’t know if he’ll let ♉one in or make a mistake. Then you have strikers who aren’t scoring. If you let in a goal you instantly think you’re not winning because he c𝐆ould make another mistake and he might miss another chance, it just demoralises everybody with the goalkeeper.”
Robert Sanchez compared to Kepa Arrizabalaga
Sanchez is having a terrible time of it at Stamford Bridge, and the frustrating thing is that Chelsea have a goalkeeper on their books who’s ♌performing much better in the same🐷 league.
Indeed, ꦫKepa Arrizabalaga is enjoying something of a career resurgence at Bournemouth right now.
Kepa hasඣ been solid as Bournemouth have imp𓆉ressed, and, as Wright says, The Cherries are now contenders for Chelsea’s Champions League place.
The stats show how Kepa has been betteℱr than Sanchez this season.
| Kepa Arrizabalaga | Robert Sanchez | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Games | 23 |
| 29 | Goals conceded | 28 |
| 5 | Clean sheets | 5 |
| 23% | Clean sheet percentage | 22% |
| 72.4% | Save percentage | 73.3% |
| 1 | Errors leading to goals | 5 |
Kepa is keeping clean sheets at a better rate than Sanchez, andꩲ he’s making fewer ♏errors, and that’s without hundreds of millions of pounds worth of defensive talent ahead of him.
Chelsea need to move on from Sanchez as their number one, and as strange as it sounds, perhaps their best move forwards is to go backwards and reꦬinstate Kepa as their first-choice goalk🉐eeper.
Kepa is set to return to Chelsea at the end of the season.
Kepa has received a lotꩲ of stick at Chelsea over the years, but, surely, he’s a better option than Sanchez at this point.