Sánchez had one of the worst games of his Chelsea career on Wednesday, with two massive (and simple) errors leading directly to two of Arsenal’s three goals. Though mistakes have never been too far from Sánchez in his time at Chelsea thus far, they almost always had something to do with his distribution or ball-playing actions. Wednesday’s errors were highly uncharacteristic.
Liam Rosenior exonerated our first-choice goalkeeper for those errors in his public comments, and Bob has repaid that faith in kind in this game, with two incredible saves to preserve a rather rare clean sheet for us. He still had a couple dicey moments on the ball, but this was a welcome return to the levels of performance we’ve gotten used to from him this season (which is now his third at the club).
Two of our last three clean sheets needed a Man of the Match performance from Bob. (That doesn’t exactly speak highly of the rest of our defending, but hey…)
JP had cooled off after his hot start, but he seems to be finding his goalscoring form once again with four goals and an assist in all competitions in the last month or so. That gives him eight goals and four assists on the season, to lead the team with twelve goal contributions (same as Enzo, in fewer minutes).
Enzo having a pretty good time of it when Rosenior switches to three midfielders (with Moisés Caicedo and Andrey Santos).
vs. BRENTFORD (PL, H, W 2-0)
EXCEPTIONAL (8.5-9.5): —
EXCELLENT (7.5-8.4): Sánchez (7.7)
GOOD (6.5-7.4): João Pedro (6.9), Enzo (6.8), Delap (6.6, sub), Caicedo (6.6), Chalobah (6.5)
AVERAGE (5.5-6.4): James (6.4), Neto (6.4), Santos (6.4, sub), Tosin (6.3), Cucurella (6.3), Fofana (6.1, sub), Palmer (6.0), Acheampong (5.9, sub), Hato (5.9, sub), Garnacho (5.5)
TERRIBLE (2.5-3.4): Sánchez (3.3)