Former Premier League goalkeeper Paul Robinson believes Alejandro Garnacho showed that ‘he is not good enough to be a regular starter for Chelsea’ in their 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on Saturday.
Garnacho has scored just one Premier League for Chelsea this season following his £40 million move from Manchester United last summer.
The 21-year-old faced his former club for the first time at Stamford Bridge as he replaced Estevao in the first half after the Brazilian was forced off with a hamstring injury.
However, Garnacho struggled to get the better of Diogo Dalot, while Chelsea struggled to break down a well-organised United defence after they went ahead shortly before the break through Matheus Cunha.
When asked what Garnacho showed with his performance against United, Robinson told Stadium Astro: ‘That he’s not good enough to be a regular starter for Chelsea and Manchester United may have done some good business.
‘I think the season that he left Manchester United, I was surprised that they let him go because you look at his stats that season at Manchester United, he was their most creative player. You look at the goals he scored, the assists that he got, but somebody saw something at Manchester United that we saw tonight.
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‘He was supposed to be a game changer off the bench, obviously not that early on in the game, but for me, he runs down dead ends too many times.
‘He gets the ball and immediately his head’s down and he’s gone. He’s very, very one-dimensional in the way that he attacks. Yes, he’s an attacking threat, but he’s quite easy to defend against.
‘As a full-back, surely you’d like to defend against him because he’s quite predictable.
‘It can be taught and that’s what good coach coaches do if you’re willing to listen.
‘It’s like anything in life, if you keep doing the same thing and it’s not working, what do you do? You change it.
‘He kept doing the same thing tonight and he didn’t change it. It was either a blind run at his full-back, which was so predictable, or he turns, rotates, and keeps possession into the middle of the field.’
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