Shaka Hislop
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He's not great with the ball at his feet, but Chelsea...
seemed intent on passing the ball out to the back.
But what Robert Sanchez was doing was kind of leading into, well, Chelsea's bigger picture in terms of their attempts to pass the ball out to the back.
Time and time again, I thought they invited the pressure from Arsenal.
Chelsea were playing these little short,
two and three yard balls and inviting depression and whenever it turned over if it turned over uh also would just find themselves in in in great in great position not often enough were they able to pass it pass their way out of that pressure so i i had an issue with not just robert sanchez but throughout chelsea's chelsea's approach i i i felt that um especially at the emirates
go along a couple of times, relieve yourself of that pressure a couple of times, make Arsenal earn that field position, which I don't think they had to do for a lot of the game.
So, there were a couple of things that kind of stood out to me.
addressing something Frank said about Arsenal and their play, or more to the point, their set pieces.
It was in this fixture in the Carabao Cup where you saw Chelsea very late on, as they were about to take the set piece, they would throw three forward and kind of throw Arsenal off.
You saw nothing of that this time around from the same team and the same manager in trying to put Arsenal off in the execution of their set pieces.
And then to Steve's point, again, yeah, I think Robert Sanchez does have these errors in him.
But then in terms of the balance of the game, and as much as I say that at times Arsenal were kind of gifted possession and position,
Robert Sanchez had routine saves to make at best.
The biggest scare came in that moment very early on when he gave the ball away and got kind of lucky with it under the pressure from Jokeres.
So while Arsenal, you felt, had had better position on the part, Sanchez didn't have an awful lot to do.
And in the end, really, after 90 minutes,
Robert Sanchez was by far the busy of the two keepers.