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Opinion: Kepa Arrizabalaga proving he’s turned a corner right at the perfect time


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Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga could still prove to be a massive part of Chelsea’s season and a real asset in their title push. This is of course because he will be spending the most part of January and some of February as Chelsea’s number one stopper in the absence of Edouard Mendy, who will be […]

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If we're going to talk about him in the context of playing in the league, if last night's a league game that mistake for the goal costs us two points.

Of course he deserves credit for recovering from the Lampard era and becoming a decent back up but I'm still not comfortable with him playing a run of league games, especially given (if we keep up the pace) he will be facing both our title rivals.

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1 hour ago, Tomo said:

If we're going to talk about him in the context of playing in the league, if last night's a league game that mistake for the goal costs us two points.

Of course he deserves credit for recovering from the Lampard era and becoming a decent back up but I'm still not comfortable with him playing a run of league games, especially given (if we keep up the pace) he will be facing both our title rivals.

He played against Spurs and it was not a problem? Last night he was easily motm even without pens. Also and most importantly in the league he will have Rudi, Silva, Chris ahead of him not Sarr...

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11 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

He played against Spurs and it was not a problem? Last night he was easily motm even without pens. Also and most importantly in the league he will have Rudi, Silva, Chris ahead of him not Sarr...

I hope you're right but last two times we had to throw in a back up not named Cech into a title race both made crucial errors (*Hilario vs City and Schwarzer vs Sunderland) so for that reason alone I'm pretty cautious.

*Hilario also had a MOTM performance vs Liverpool months earlier.

But like I said hopefully I'm wrong.

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