Enzo Maresca has confirmed that Robert Sanchez has regained his place as Chelsea’s Premier League goalkeeper and will start at Arsenal on Sunday.
Sanchez began the season as Chelsea’s goalkeeper in the Premier League and he started the opening 13 games in the competition.
Fellow goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen was tasked with playing in the Europa Conference League, but he usurped Sanchez last month.
Jorgensen started four Premier League games in a row before Sanchez regained his place against Leicester last weekend.
Sanchez kept a clean sheet in a 1-0 win and, with Jorgensen starting against Copenhagen in the Europa Conference League on Thursday night, the Spaniard will start this weekend when Chelsea head to Emirates Stadium.
“It will be Robert playing against Arsenal,” said Maresca.
“Since we start, the idea was not to change goalkeeper - but sometimes you have to modify, you have to be flexible in your idea.
“We do this with the game plan, we do this with the way we want to attack, the way we want to defend, but also we need to be flexible with players.
“I think Robert needed some days off or at least to rest his head mentally. And now he is back we are hopefully not going to change until the end [of the season], also because I said many times we are quite happy with both goalkeepers.”
After losing three games on the spin last month and crashing out of the FA Cup, Chelsea have now won four matches in a row.
Thursday’s 1-0 victory over Copenhagen booked them a spot in the quarter-finals of the Europa Conference League and they are fourth in the Premier League.
“I try to judge [the team] game after game,” said Maresca. “I think we lost some games where we did not deserve to lose.
“I still remember probably Bournemouth away that we won, but that we did not deserve to win. But we also dropped points in games that we deserved points. Villa away, I think we deserved points, for sure.
“Now, it is four games in a row [that we have won], but it doesn’t mean that we are now going to win all the games or we are going to lose all the games. It is just game by game.
“The important thing is that we are almost in April, in the quarter-finals, fourth in the league, and hopefully we can, as I said many times, bring this club where it belongs to. We are going to try to do our best.”
