Jamie Carragher has reportedly claimed that Chelsea are a “million miles off” of winning the Champions League or the Premier League and will stay that way until their goalkeeping problem is fixed.
The Blues lost to Paris Saint-Germain 5-2 on the road, leaving them with a difficult second leg in the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday.
For the third straight game, Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior changed Filip Jorgensen for Robert Sanchez as his starting goalkeeper.
However, the blunder for PSG’s vital third goal was insufficient to prevent their fifth, and the Denmark international showed little to earn his manager’s trust.
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After the final whistle, Carragher slammed the Blues’ recruitment and believes that Rosenior won’t be successful until he’s found a reliable goalkeeper.
“I’ve been critical of Chelsea for a long time,” the Liverpool legend said on CBS Sports. “But I’m being deadly serious, they can’t go any further until they sort the goalkeeping issue out.
“I’ve been saying this consistently. The new ownership have come in and spent absolute billions and right now they’ve got some great players in the team and I think in these early stages Liam Rosenior has been brilliant.
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“I thought Rosenior as a manager tonight, looking at how he set the team up, caused PSG real problems, they didn’t deserve to lose as in the way the game was set up and how they played. But big mistakes cost them at centre-back and goalkeeper.
“They were let down by a mistake from the goalkeeper at 2-2 and then the game just completely unravelled and now all of a sudden it looks like they’ve got no chance of going through.”
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