Chelsea went down 2-0 at the hands of Liverpool this weekend in the Premier League and keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga has once again turned out to be the villain of the game.
Sadio Mane scored Liverpool’s second goal due to a silly error from the Spanish keeper and now pundit Michael Owen has also pinpointed Kepa Arrizabalaga for Christensen’s sending off during the injury time of the first half.
‘We hear a lot of the time about goalkeepers creating nervousness in their back four and I think that’s a perfect example,’ Owen told Premier League Productions, as quoted by Metro.
‘He did it earlier on in the game when he ran out of his box for no apparent reason. When your goalkeeper is nervous it runs throughout your team. He shouldn’t be running 25 yards out of his goal.
‘I don’t think there’s any complaints about the red card decision. It took two attempts from the referee to get there but I think he got there in the end.
‘It was a great run from Sadio Mane to get across the face of Christensen but the goalkeeper comes out and confuses the situation for the big centre half.
‘He [Christensen] puts two arms around Sadio Mane, grabs him, wrestles him to the ground and it’s a definite sending off.’
Kepa Arrizabalaga has been under immense pressure at Chelsea over the past one and a half years and it now seems like his time at the club’s No 1 has finally come to an end.
Edouard Mendy is slated to come into the side and with the kind of poor performances that Kepa has been delivering over the past couple of months, there’s no doubt that Lampard will push him down the pecking order with the very first concrete chance that he gets.
