{"id":8873,"date":"2026-03-06T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/sanchez-disappointed-but-rosenior-doesnt-have-a-number-one-goalkeeper\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:05:05","slug":"sanchez-disappointed-but-rosenior-doesnt-have-a-number-one-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/sanchez-disappointed-but-rosenior-doesnt-have-a-number-one-goalkeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchez &#8216;disappointed&#8217; but Rosenior doesn&#8217;t have a number one goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/topics\/c999r12k905t\">Nizaar Kinsella<\/a>Football reporter at Cobham Training Centre<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published21 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> head coach Liam Rosenior says goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was &quot;really disappointed&quot; to be left out of Wednesday&#x27;s match against <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a>, but stressed he does not have an established number one.<\/p>\n<p>Spain international Sanchez was criticised for both his distribution and errors at set-pieces during <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/cx2d7x1k8j1t\">Sunday&#x27;s 2-1 defeat at leaders Arsenal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosenior brought in Denmark&#x27;s Filip Jorgensen &#8211; Sanchez&#x27;s long-term understudy &#8211; for <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/c20zeq095r9t?page=5\">the 4-1 victory at Villa Park.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve been really honest with Rob,&quot; he said. &quot;He was really disappointed not to play, which is what I expect from every player, whether they&#x27;re a goalkeeper or an outfield player.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But the way Rob responded in training, the way he supported Filip &#8211; in the warm-up, in the dressing room &#8211; was magnificent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> have a long-term strategy of encouraging squad rotation, and Rosenior intends to apply that principle to his goalkeepers too.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For me, genuinely, I look at the goalkeeper position differently for each game,&quot; he said. &quot;I want there to be competition in every area of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know, traditionally, if there&#x27;s a change of goalkeeper, people assume he&#x27;s now the number one. That&#x27;s not the case. We will pick &#8211; and I will pick &#8211; the best team for each game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Filip hasn&#x27;t been waiting &#8211; he&#x27;s been working for his opportunity. I thought he took it really, really well. But Rob has put in great performances as well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rosenior was asked whether goalkeepers need continuity and whether rotation could therefore be counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Yes, you need continuity &#8211; but you also need to win football matches,&quot; he said. &quot;There are different approaches &#8211; modern or old\u2011school.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I will pick the team I think is best to win each game. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve kept the same XI once since I&#x27;ve been here. People can say you need continuity &#8211; if we lose, it&#x27;s because we didn&#x27;t have enough; if we win, it&#x27;s the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I made a decision for the <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> game that I think was proven correct. Hopefully, I&#x27;ll make more correct decisions moving forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> face Wrexham in the FA Cup fifth round at 17:45 GMT on Saturday, with the match live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\">\n<p>Latest Chelsea news, analysis and fan views<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/send\/u211221788\">\n<p>Ask about Chelsea &#8211; what do you want to know?<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanchez disappointed but Rosenior wants competitionImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Robert Sanchez joined Chelsea from Brighton for \u00a325m in 2023ByNizaar KinsellaFootball reporter at Cobham Tra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}