Filip Jorgensen was been brought into the Chelsea team to replace Robert Sanchez after the Spaniard made a series of high profile errors, but it hasn’t been easy.
Jorgensen is very inexperienced and looks nervous, and this is a tricky situation to be thrown into. There was even jeering of the keeper and his defenders as they passed the ball hesitantly around their own third from the crowd at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. Enzo Maresca later said he had told the Swede to play the ball out out from the back or risk being taken off.
There are growing links to new signings in the summer to take over in goal, with Brighton stopper Bart Verbruggen the latest to be mentioned. Despite the pressure, Jorgensen did make one superb save in his last game, springing across goal to claw out a goalbound header.
You can see the stop in the clip embedded here:
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Goalkeepers need more than highlight reel saves to be top class
The fact is though that Robert Sanchez was making big and impressive saves too, that was never the problem. The problem was the errors that were costing his team so dearly and so directly.
So while moments like this will certainly help Jorgensen’s case, we will need to see a lot more than this to be convinced long term. He still looks nervy in possession
Letting the ball slide under him against Aston Villa to hand them a win was a dagger – he’d need a lot of saves like this to make up for that alone.
Still, it’s nice to see him show off some of the skills that persuaded us to pay a reported €24.5m for him last summer to sign him from Villareal in La Liga.
