Chelsea’s three highest rated players just barely sneak into the “average” category, with Bob leading the way by a few hundredths. And he certainly did give it his all during the game, making five saves and getting beaten only by a great first-time shot form Trey Hume and a ridiculous own goal from Malo Gusto.
Sánchez thus finishes the season with 16 podium appearances, tied for third most on the team with Enzo Fernández and behind only João Pedro (20) and Moisés Caicedo (18). It’s his fourth Man of the Match, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s been his best season as a Chelsea player. That’s faint praise in the grand scheme of things, but overall, Bob’s done alright … or at least he hasn’t been our biggest problem. He’s certainly had his usual moments, but he’s proven a solid goalkeeper when it comes to actual goalkeeping … or at least better than all our other alternatives.
Opta’s goalkeeping [statistics](https://theanalyst.com/competition/premier-league/stats) have him comfortably in the range of average to almost better-than-average in most metrics, and his 2.7 goals prevented make him 8th best in the league in that regard (Lammens, Donnarumma, and Verbruggen well out in front of all others in that stat).
Unlike for Bob, it’s fair to say that this has not been Cole Palmer’s best season at Chelsea. In fact, it was comfortably his worst. We can point to injuries or fatigue or the coaching carousel … but whatever the reason, let’s just hope that this is not the real Cole Palmer.
At least he did break his goalscoring drought.
Four games back for Levi, four Player Ratings podium appearances. On another day, it’s he who gets the yellow (instead of Wesley Fofana) since they were both fouling the Sunderland player, and maybe we end up with a different result.
Colwill gets to go into next season without the stink of this season, and I’m expecting great things from him.
_AVERAGE (5.5-6.4)_: **Sánchez (5.6)**, Palmer (**5.6**), Colwill (**5.6**)
_SUBPAR (4.5-5.4)_: James (**5.1**, _sub_), Chalobah (**5.0**, _sub_), Hato (**4.9**), Acheampong (**4.8**, _sub_), João Pedro (**4.6**), Caicedo (**4.6**), Enzo (**4.5**)
_BAD (3.5-4.4)_: Cucurella (**3.6**), Neto (**3.5**)
_TERRIBLE (2.5-3.4)_: Delap (**2.8**, _sub_), Gusto (**2.6**), Fofana (**2.1**)
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