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Ahead of Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final clash between Chelsea and Liverpool, there is a debate as to which of his two competing goalkeepers Thomas Tuchel will select.

Edouard Mendy has been Chelsea’s number one ‘keeper, pretty much since he arrived in September 2020, ostensibly to replace the bereft of form and confidence Kepa Arrizabalaga.

Thomas Tuchel has been frank in the media in terms of the goalkeeping hierarchy at Chelsea. Having selected Mendy ahead of Kepa for the recent Club World Cup final, he said of Kepa: "He is so good in training and in the games. He could be the number one, yes, he is not because we have Mendy and Edou is our number one."

It is hard to argue with that assessment, after all Mendy has an incredible 39 clean sheets in 73 appearances for Chelsea. His 9 clean sheets in last season’s victorious Champions’ League campaign went a long way to securing the trophy for Chelsea.

But Kepa, who stepped in and stepped up when deputising for Mendy while he was away at AFCON, conceded only 3 goals and kept 5 clean sheets in the 8 matches he played. More to the point, he looked back to his best, or perhaps better than his best at Chelsea, with a penalty save against Plymouth Argyle in