Chelsea fans have been mocked on social media after suggesting Edouard Mendy should’ve beaten Gianluigi Donnarumma to the Yashin Trophy after the goalkeeper’s howlers.
Mendy made two errors this afternoon that proved decisive in Chelsea’s 3-2 defeat to West Ham United in the Premier League.
The setbacks provided an opportunity for some social media users to hit back at those who only a few days ago had loudly argued Mendy was the superior shot-stopper to Italy’s UEFA EURO 2020 victor Donnarumma.
The former Milan and current Paris Saint-Germain ‘keeper received the award as Best Goalkeeper of the Year from France Football, as part of the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris.
This wasn’t just pure insults and clown emojis, because there were also a few Chelsea fans who realised the error of their ways and confessed it had been an error to criticise the decision awarding the Yashin Trophy to Italian prodigy Donnarumma.
Donnarumma > Mendy
Any doubts?
— Wilfred Mong (@DsilentG) December 4, 2021
donnarumma when his team needs him vs mendy pic.twitter.com/Yg3bxQBSxG
— uzi (@l2uzi) December 4, 2021
Mendy just showed everyone why Donnarumma won the Yasmin trophy https://t.co/JbSeqWB55z
— Ten Hag I Beg (@MUFC1499) December 4, 2021
Overall Chelsea played pretty well today but had uncharacteristic moments of extreme sloppiness which cost them the game.
Hopefully this will kill the myth that Mendy is the new Cech. He’s a decent GK but no Donnarumma. He looks better than he is because of the GKs he replaced.
— TheTelminator (@The_Telminator) December 4, 2021
“Mendy is better than Donnarumma ” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
— Kaywize FactMan (@dvearse) December 4, 2021
Donnarumma robbed Mendy 😂😂
— Tojo (@tojojosh) December 4, 2021
Just saw West Ham’s 3rd goal…. Literally amateur hour goalkeeping can’t have it, suppose all the Chelsea fans in my mentions the last 24 hours can pipe down finally thinking Mendy is better than Donnarumma.
— Hannah (@JuventinaHannah) December 4, 2021
I don’t believe I will ever say this but Mendy just made me understand why Donnarumma deserved to win the award ahead of him… Never been this hurt in a long time now.
Lukaku was a waste of space in that game… He would have stayed on the bench.
— 𝙷𝙰𝙼𝙰𝙳𝙸 🦅 (@Its_Hamadi) December 4, 2021
None of them watched Serie A then because I remember screaming at him quite a few times. Not that I care who is regarded as better but they are both capable of howlers.
The more concerning part for Italy fans is the mistake made by Jorginho that helped contribute to a West Ham goal. Last week he gifted one to ManU. He’s been horrible the last few months.
Might have to be Lorenzo Pellegrini in the Playoffs if Jorginho can’t sort himself out.
Mendy is way better GK than the overpriced pesetier
Well they just never seen how bad Donnarumma with his feet, his ball distribution was and is bad