{"id":316349,"date":"2021-02-16T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=316349"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:40:00","slug":"kepa-vs-mendy-jamie-carragher-names-chelseas-better-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=316349","title":{"rendered":"Kepa vs Mendy: Jamie Carragher names Chelsea\u2019s better goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, has identified Edouard Mendy as a better goalkeeper for Chelsea ahead of Kepa Arrizabalaga.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher disclosed this on Monday as Kepa started ahead of Mendy in Chelsea\u2019s 2-0 victory against Newcastle United in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Kepa, who Chelsea signed for \u00a372million in 2018 from Athletic Bilbao, has played second fiddle to the Blues\u2019 summer signing, Mendy, for much of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tuchel handed Kepa his first Premier League start since last October on Monday night as Chelsea defeated Newcastle at home, thanks to goals from Olivier Giroud and Timo Werner.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing both goalkeepers, Carragher told Sky Sports: \u201cMendy is a better goalkeeper \u2013 we have seen that since he came in \u2013 but he\u2019s not as good with his feet as Kepa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the manager wants to have a look, but I also think the hierarchy are asking whether Tuchel can get something out of Kepa. I don\u2019t expect it to last too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s next game is against Southampton on Saturday in an away Premier League tie.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, has identified Edouard Mendy as a better goalkeeper for Chelsea ahead of Kepa Arrizabalaga. Carragher disclosed this on Monday as Kepa started ahead of Mendy in Chelsea\u2019s 2-0 victory against Newcastle United in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge. Kepa, who Chelsea signed for \u00a372million in 2018 from Athletic Bilbao, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,3367],"class_list":["post-316349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}