{"id":590247,"date":"2026-05-18T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:30:13","slug":"chelsea-0-1-manchester-city-player-ratings-preventing-99-in-100-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590247\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City, Player Ratings: Preventing 99-in-100 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Colwill has been back for just three games, and he\u2019s finished on the player ratings podium in all three: second, third, and now first. Our Man of the Match in the FA Cup final, as Chelsea kept Manchester City at bay \u2026 except for a goal that interim head coach Calum McFarlane called, and not unreasonably, a 1-in-100 goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sure makes you wonder how differently our season might have turned out if Colwill didn\u2019t go down with that ACL in preseason. Thankfully, the 23-year-old is looking great already and can hopefully hit the ground running with Xabi Alonso next season. \u201cConsistency\u201d at the back was <a href=\"https:\/\/weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\/premier-league\/168728\/xabi-alonso-wants-to-sign-and-create-mentality-monsters-at-chelsea-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted<\/a> as one of the key areas of improvement needed under the new manager; Colwill should be central to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hato has been at or above the team average in each of his last twelve starts, and is showing more frequently why he was so highly rated coming out of Ajax. If we are to switch to a back-three next season, Hato could be a good fit at the left-center back position \u2014 maybe with a bit of license to roam forward to cause trouble like he did when he drew the foul from Khusanov in the penalty area. (That it was inexplicably not given is another matter entirely of course.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In many ways, we would not have even made it this far place were it not for Bob\u2019s saves in the semifinal against Leeds United in the first place, and he put in a solid showing in the final as well. Certainly not much more he, or anyone else really, could\u2019ve done about Semenyo\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The issue of goalkeeper is said to be among the highest on our priority list this summer, but this has been S\u00e1nchez\u2019s best season yet at Chelsea and perhaps we shouldn\u2019t so hasty in hitting the reset button. (J\u00f6rgensen needs to go, to be sure, but I\u2019m not convinced that the best way forward is so clearly Penders and \u201cnew signing\u201d.)<\/p>\n<p>vs. NOTTINGHAM FOREST (PL, H, L 1-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">EXCEPTIONAL (8.5-9.5): \u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">GOOD (6.5-7.4): Colwill (7.4), Hato (6.7), S\u00e1nchez (6.6)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">AVERAGE (5.5-6.4): Caicedo (6.4), James (6.3), Jo\u00e3o Pedro (6.3), Enzo (6.3), Fofana (6.3), Cucurella (6.2), Palmer (6.0), Gusto (5.7), Neto (5.5, sub)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BAD (3.5-4.4): Delap (4.0, sub), Garnacho (3.9, sub)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colwill has been back for just three games, and he\u2019s finished on the player ratings podium in all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[179896,49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-590247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-chelsea-fc-fa-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}