Peter Schmeichel insists Chelsea can win the Premier League title with Robert Sanchez in goal.
The 27-year-old has come under fire for his mistakes at Chelsea following his £25 million move from Brighton two years ago.
Jamie Carragher has criticised Chelsea over their failure to sign an upgrade on Sanchez in the summer transfer window and suggested that Enzo Maresca’s side should have brought in Gianluigi Donnarumma, who ended up joining Manchester City.
Schmeichel, however, disagrees with Carragher’s verdict and believes Chelsea’s defence needs to improve as a collective in order to win their first Premier League title since 2017.
‘It’s a point we can take on with Robert Sanchez,’ Schmeichel told BBC Radio 5 Live.
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‘When you play for these clubs and the pressure is so high, every little thing you do is under the scope.
‘So when you’re the goalkeeper, and for instance, you say Sanchez is not very good with his feet, I don’t think he’s that bad, I actually don’t think he’s a bad goalkeeper.
‘I was asked on air the other day by Jamie Carragher – can Chelsea win the league with Sanchez? And I said, ‘yeah, of course they can’, they need to defend better.
‘They’ve been defending really, really bad. That makes him a bad goalkeeper.
‘You have to comliment each other, you have to work as a team, so the goalkeeper, the back four, the spine of the team, that has to work as one unit. If somebody doesn’t play well the rest of them will suffer.
‘And that’s the difference from winning the league and not winning the league. When you win the league you have that working, it works game by game, and there’s a trust there.
‘It’s clear when you concede the goals Chelsea have conceded it creates that insecurity straight away. You see it when you’re there, they look at each other, there’s not this thing where everything works automatically as it’s supposed to be working.’
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