Enzo Maresca confirmed that Robert Sanchez will feature within the starting line-up for Chelsea’s Premier League clash at Arsenal on Sunday.
Maresca dropped Sanchez after the Spaniard committed an error that led to Erling Haaland’s goal in his side’s 3-1 defeat at Manchester City in January, with backup stopper Filip Jorgensen starting 4 straight Premier League games.
Nevertheless, Sanchez returned to the lineup for a 1-0 league win over Leicester City last week after Jorgensen fared little higher within the highlight.
‘It can be Robert playing against Arsenal. Since we began, the concept was not to alter keepers, but sometimes you may have to switch and be flexible together with your ideas,’ Maresca told reporters on Friday.
‘We do that in the sport plan, we do that the best way we would like to attack, the best way we would like to defend, but additionally we should be flexible on players. I believe Robert needed some days off, or no less than some rest mentally.
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‘Now he’s back, hopefully we should not going to alter until the top. Also because I said repeatedly, we’re quite completely satisfied with each keepers.’
Chelsea, who’re fourth within the league standings with 49 points from 28 matches, trail second-placed Arsenal by six points and can be seeking to make up ground with a win.
Asked about the opportunity of difficult the north London club for second place, Maresca said: ‘But they can be nine points (ahead). In the intervening time they’re six. We should not focused on that.
‘We are only focused on how we will do our game, how we will attempt to beat them after which hopefully we will do this and we could be more close… Yes, it (second place) might be a goal obviously.
‘It’s our duty to do our greatest, but at the identical time I believe the goal for us right away is Sunday’s game, after which game after game to see how we will catch up with.’
Each side can be with out a recognised striker on Sunday, with winger Pedro Neto expected to steer the road for Chelsea within the absence of injured forward Nicolas Jackson, while Arsenal have played midfielder Mikel Merino up front in recent weeks.
‘Yeah, it’s quite strange for each, because now we have all of them injured, but I believe they try to seek out an answer. We try to seek out an answer at the identical time,’ Maresca said.
‘Pedro, since we began, is doing, I believe, thoroughly in that position. We’ll see if Sunday we use Pedro there or we alter something.
‘All of the clubs throughout the season, they’ve moments where they’ve injuries, so that they must adapt, they should be flexible and take a look at to seek out an answer.’
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