I wonder how "bad" Jensen's distribution is.
How many goals have we conceded due to kicking errors from the keeper?
We mix up whether we play out from the back or kick long, so his decision making is pretty good.
Also if you compare him to say Rushworth, who was not able to clear the half way line if there was a breeze against him.... at least with Jensen, if once a game then ball is 80 yards away in the stand you aren't immediately under pressure having to defend your goal.
His distribution is not a particular strength but I am not convinced it's a massive weakness either.
Your right Chimp distribution is not his strength and it is an aspect of his game that will affect his ambition because if you are a goalkeeper at our level you don't need to have wonderful skills on the ball but your distribution has to be a lot better than his is.
I have seen a very limited improvement in the second half of the season in his kicking compared to the first half where it seemed every other kick he put into touch.
It is pretty rare for a professional player not to be able to drive through a ball but he doesn't seem to have the technique to be able to do it or seems to be getting any better at it although I would be gobsmacked if he is not working on it on the training ground.
He tends to scooping the ball which means he is making contact right at the bottom of the ball and the turf with the inside of his foot around the area where the ball of the foot is this will send the ball very high and the ball will be back spinning but won't actually travel that far. To get distance, more recently I have noticed he is kicking the ball with his instep, making contact with the ball on the middle of it which will give you distance and a degree of accuracy with it.
What he can't do is drive through the ball with his laces, he just doesn't have the technique to do but is something that should of been picked up on when he was a youngster. It is a fairly difficult technique to be accurate all the time with but when you are doing it day in and day out it should almost become second nature.
I think he has been told to play long with the sidefoot kick because kicking through the ball with your laces and driving the ball forward has a high element of getting it wrong if that's not a technique you are not good at and can easily embarras you especially if your the last man.
Having said all that I rate him very highly, he is a very good goalkeeper. He's an excellent shotstopper and his handling has really improved this season but he does need to improve his kicking technique.
