UK’s top pundit slaughters Chelsea star as “bottom half” player – not for the first time

Chelsea were on Monday Night Football last night, meaning their fans were treated to analysis from the biggest and best broadcaster and pundits in the country.

The Blues won the game, but Jamie Carragher – who was covering the game for Sky – wasn’t that impressed. After full time he quite fairly criticised the “flat” atmosphere at Stamford Bridge, agreeing with fellow pundit Emmanuel Petit.

But it wasn’t just the fans who came in for criticism – Carragher also laid into Blues goalkeeper Robert Sanchez.

Everything had been going well for Chelsea in a first half they comfortable controlled. They made their advantage count with a goal, and should have been cruising to the break with no issues. But an extra time blunder handed Wolves a goal and a way back into the game. Sanchez came from a ball from under his own crossbar, then fumbled it:

“A corner came in, just before half-time and after this [mistake], and he punches away. That’s exactly what he should have done on that goal. He’s a Premier League goalkeeper,” the pundit said.

“It’s not a foul, there’s nothing there. We just keep getting signs, as I think we’ve always probably known, that Sanchez is a Premier League goalkeeper but maybe for a team in the bottom half of the table, not the top half.”

Carragher consistent in Sanchez criticism – and not alone either

This isn’t the first time Carragher has criticised Sanchez – the pundit called for Chelsea to sign a new goalkeeper back in October after the stopper let Curtis Jones score a crucial goal for Liverpool.

Fans are largely in agreement – he makes lots of fine saves, but not enough to make up for the blunders which cost his team consistently. We hope that the sporting directors are seeing what we are seeing.