Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca said goalkeeper Robert Sanchez cannot “make a mistake every game” and expect to keep his place as he hinted he could turn to understudy Filip Jorgensen for Monday’s home game against West Ham.

The former Brighton 'keeper has made five mistakes leading directly to goals this season, most recently in the 3-1 defeat to Manchester City last weekend when he was caught badly out of position, allowing Erling Haaland to give City the lead.

Maresca has until now backed him unconditionally, insisting that he is the club’s No 1.

The head coach was asked whether Sanchez, who lost his place to the inexperienced Djordje Petrovic for the second half of last season, could benefit from a period out of the team.

“Sometimes it can happen,” he said. “Not only in Robert’s case. It happened already this season, the other day I was reading about (Gianluigi) Donnarumma, this season he was playing always for PSG then for some games Luis Enrique left him out. Now he’s playing every game and doing well.”

Jorgensen, who joined from Villarreal in the summer, has impressed as the regular goalkeeper for cup and Conference League matches.

“For sure, the No 1 is Robert but we have two good 'keepers and we can make some different decisions, for sure it can happen,” said Maresca.

“It doesn’t mean Robert can make a mistake every game and he’s always going to play. No. But the No 1 choice was Robert. We will see on Monday.

“Not (decided) yet, the decision we have two, three days. The good thing is that any decision I take I feel good, because every time Filip has played since we started, he has done well.

“So Filip or Robert, we will see but any decision will be OK.”

Asked whether the club could look to recall goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga from his loan spell at Bournemouth, Maresca said: “No, absolutely not.”