Kepa who recently put pen to paper on a whacking transfer worth £71.6 million from Athletic Bilbao, had a good start to his Premier league campaign with a clean sheet against Huddersfield. The youngster was loud in his confidence as well as his voice, and was not afraid to make himself heard. The keeper was confident enough to bark orders at Chelsea’s defence.
He did invite unnecessary pressure onto himself when he passed the ball straight into the boots of the opponent striker. The club-record fee transfer did not feel any pressure on his shoulder’s, also because he was the one to replace Best goalkeeper of this World Cup- Thibaut Courtios who recently transferred to Real Madrid.
In his debut at John Smith’s stadium, things did not on well for the 23-year old in the starting half wherein, the Huddersfield fan got on his back. The keeper was lucky not to concede the goals in the first half, with the pole favouring him and deflecting the ball from outside of the pole.
The player did continue to struggle in his long passes and his passes were reaching the wrong players. After his mild performance on first day, Antonio Rudiger backed up his team-mate saying “I think he (Kepa) did well,He tried to speak as much as he can. He did well with that and we as defenders we needed to help him and we did that.In his work he’s very confident.”
Whatever critics the Spaniard would have faced his first match was wondrous with a 3-0 clean sheet over the Terriers.
