Published January 20, 2025 10:19pm Updated January 20, 2025 10:19pm
Jamie Carragher aimed a brutal excavation astatine Chelsea prima Robert Sanchez pursuing his blunder successful the 3-1 triumph implicit Wolves connected Monday night.
The Blues secured each 3 points successful the Premier League clash astatine Stamford Bridge acknowledgment to goals from Tosin Adarabioyo, Marc Cucurella and Noni Madueke.
But Sanchez had a infinitesimal to hide during Matt Doherty’s extremity for Wolves conscionable earlier half-time arsenic the Chelsea goalkeeper made a important mistake portion nether unit from Santiago Bueno.
Sanchez dropped a regular drawback from Matheus Cunha’s country with Doherty capable to instrumentality the shot successful the backmost of the nett from a mates yards out.
In his punditry enactment for Sky Sports, Carragher slammed Sanchez, suggesting that helium should beryllium playing for a squad successful the ‘bottom half’ of the league.
‘Every set-piece is the aforesaid now, with radical trying to artifact the goalkeeper,’ Carragher said. ‘He pushes idiosyncratic distant truthful helium present has the clip to woody with it.
‘He should conscionable punch it. He’s a Premier League goalkeeper. It’s not a foul. There’s thing there.
‘We support getting signs that Sanchez is simply a Premier League goalkeeper – but possibly for a squad successful the bottommost fractional of the array and not a apical team.’
Fellow pundit and erstwhile Chelsea prima Emmanuel Petit was besides captious of Sanchez arsenic helium added: ‘I don’t cognize wherefore helium didn’t punch the ball.
‘He tried to drawback it. He should person punched it. He was nether pressure. He was truthful adjacent to his ain enactment truthful it was a hazard [to drawback it].
‘If you privation to beryllium secure, to warrant it, conscionable punch the ball.’
Alan Smith, meanwhile, connected commentary duties, said: ‘Sanchez has had virtually thing to do.
‘It’s a modular drawback that helium wholly messes up and Matt Doherty is connected the spot to poke it in.’
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