PlayerWatch: Carlos Sanchez gets the treatment

Daniel Danielli Leach decided to take a close up look at Carlos Sanchez for today’s PlayerWatch piece – SORRY CARLOS!

14 – Plays a good ball out wide to Fredericks

38 – He is outpaced by Jota on the left hand side allowing him to put in a cross unchallenged

39 – Plays a great one touch ball to Cresswell after a poor control by Arnautovic

49 – Plays a very clever chipped ball to Cresswell under pressure

52 – Puts in a weak tackle on Costa who goes past him and crosses the ball

53 – Makes a great dummy with a fake pass to confuse Jimenez before making a great pass forward to Wilshere

54 – Plays a neat one two with Anderson before playing it forward to Yarmolenko

68 – Makes a good double clearance in a defensive position

88 – Tackles Rúben Vinagre but he does not catch the ball and Vinagre is free to go forward

90+3 – GOAL – 0-1 – Neves capitalises on a poor first touch sending Traore through on goal who scores

Verdict – 5 – It would be very easy to heavily criticise Sanchez given the grave nature of the mistake made. While deserved, it should not hide that throughout the game he doing his duty. He always linked up very well with the defence and wingers making many passes and making us tick. However even apart from the goal he sometimes looked a bit sluggish defensively