Yeh. I know how many keepers Chelsea have got. But Sanchez is the one they are playing, which means they think he's the best they have. And he's nowhere near good enough for a club trying to get UCL football. Which means they will try to get a replacement ASAP
Really?
I guess the thing about going long, is the opposition are onto us with Verbruggen's passing into midfield. They know if you can block off the lanes to the full backs, Verbruggen will likely try to find a central midfielder and the trap is sprung. It could be a goal or (a pen) in one simple pass.
It was more a throwaway response to someone bouncing this old thread just to have a dig at Sanchez. I like Bart. I don't think he's as good as Sanchez but that's a perfectly fine opinion to have, and there is a lot to like about Bart who will keep improving.
It might be a 50-50 shot at retaining possession, but on the 50% of times that we do, we have the ball in the opposition half and often with a lot of the opposition behind us rather than the whole team sitting in a block. When we pass out from the back we haven't (yet) perfected the art of passing the ball quickly through the midfield liked we used to do in the heady days of Caicedo/Mac/Gross/Lallana, so it doesn't have the same impact. Personally I just like the variety of mixing it up.
The issue is the often massive impact that those 1.5% of failed short passes have.
This makes no sense.
Because Ayari was demanding the ball there and didn't react to the player around him.
Oh you're talking about the penalty, the one where Ayari demands the ball but doesn't move towards the pass? That's not a Verbruggen mistake it's more on Ayari.
Save percentage counts a worldie save the same as a dribbled effort from 45 yards straight at the keeper, it doesn't take into account how good the save actually was.
If you look at Post Shot xG prevented per 90 you get a better understanding of how good a goalkeeper is at shot stopping. Sanchez is much lower in this category but still slightly above Verbruggen.
Well, times change.
You're incredibly wrong, I don't think we should have been playing Steele last season as we should have had Verbruggen developing.
As you can see from the below table, Sanchez and Verbruggen have faced a fairly similar PSxG, so this point about collecting crosses doesn't indicate a massive difference in shots faced.
Sanchez has made the second most mistakes leading to goals in the league, behind only Muric. Verbruggen has made one less mistake leading to goals.For shot stopping, save percentage doesn't take into account the difficulty of shots saved, it counts a worldie the same as any other shot, from my other reply:If you look at Post Shot xG prevented per 90 you get a better understanding of how good a goalkeeper is at shot stopping. Sanchez is much lower in this category but still slightly above Verbruggen.
What is also perhaps interesting in this table is how low Martinez is. I thought he was thought of as 'world class'!
Mistakes happen more often when you're a proactive goalkeeper coming out for crosses and through balls. Fans were fuming all over him for failing to pick that cross against Palace when the vast majority of our goalkeepers in the last five years would have stood on the line praying for someone else to fix the problem. Then there's no mistake if the ball goes in because the goalie didn't even try.
Watch the highlights again. Ayari demands the ball but Verbruggen doesn't pass it. He looks elsewhere and then plays the pass when Ayari isn't expecting it. It's not a massive error on Barts part, but it was a hospital pass to Ayari.