The hideous stats which embarrass Chelsea’s sporting directors over major decision | OneFootball

Chelsea put in a really quite pathetic performance all around against Man City today, but one person continued to be a lightning rod for criticism – Robert Sanchez.

The pressure on him has been growing steadily, and reached a crescendo on Monday night after he helped Wolves get their goal. All he needed was a quiet night tonight – but it was the opposite in the end. The goalkeeper left his line to try and intercept a long ball and got stuck in no-man’s land. He was lobbed easily by Erling Haaland.

Meanwhile in France Djordje Petrovic, the man who ousted Sanchez as our number one last season but was then sent to Strasbourg on loan by our galaxy-brained sporting directors, was having a superb game for our sister club. He made 5 saves, he completed 92% of his passes, including 10 long balls, and got a very high rating on stats sites.

He’s no Petr Cech, but he was pretty solid, and we were better off with him in goal. Ask any Blues fan and they’ll tell you the same.

Ugly stats get uglier for Sanchez

Robert Sanchez lobbed by Erling Haaland. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)

It gets worse too – the xG tracker account “The xG Philosophy” claims that his decision to rush out changed the expected goals of Haaland’s shot from 0.03 to 0.42.

Meanwhile, another accounts claims that the 5 errors leading to a goal which Sanchez has now committed are now the most by a player since those stats began being recorded in 2007. We can well believe it – Kepa was rubbish, but his mistakes were a little more subtle than this.

Where do we go from here? Is dropping Sanchez the right move? Or does that just put an even worse option in the firing line? This disaster goes right to the top – to the guys who signed the Spaniard, didn’t replace him, sent Petrovic on loan, and have continued to stick with Sanchez even as he costs this team points.