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Exactly Seb he was excellent at Liverpool but the whole teams resources was put towards playing him through. We are not used to this at Chelsea, We are used to seeing team players at this club not just Goalscorers. Liverpool are used to this type of striker with Fowler and Owen in the past but Chelsea is about team ethic. I am not bashing Torres here but i just think he needs too much focus on himself. Drogba's first 2 seasons was about him being a battling ram and opening space then when we changed it for him to score more we went like 4 seasons without winning the league. Then we finally won the league by 1 point in 09/10, i just think we need a more complete striker because strikers like Torres don't get you far.

And the fact is that number of goals Torres did score at Liverpool were coming from long balls on the wings, things that does not characterizes Chelsea.

After that, when he had to play 3 games a week it had consequences on his playing style because he couldn't make such runs anymore plus because he did often play injured. That's why he is struggling, he comes to a club where the playing style is completely different and he has to recover his real playing style and not this bad evolution that made him static and less present in the game of his last months at Liverpool

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You can say Torres isn't taking his chances, but he's had about eight clear goalscoring chances in six months for us. That begs the question - where is his support? We are so used to seeing Drogba hold the ball up and we are so geared towards the vertical through-ball that anything requiring guile and skill seems to evaporate. Thankfully Mata and Sturridge will offer support, genuine width and additional goal threat, instead of us having to rely on Bosingwa and Ramires driving from deep.

But 1 in 8 clear goal scoring chances is very poor form, even worse if you consider that players are expected to score a few in non-clear chances. But I do agree about the rest. I have a good feeling about Mata-Sturridge support and hope the three of them score at least one each today :)

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He is right cause Lampard and Mikel slow down the game.

The little i saw from Romeu in the U21 WC he seemed to react more faster and rotate the ball faster then Mikel.

And Lampard....has been said a million times and he still keeps playing whole game! Baffles me.

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Just give him the same time you gave Drogba and Shevchenko.

Juandando will eventually fire us to glory ;)

The thing is though Drogba was contributing a lot during his first 2 season's. He opened all that space for Lampard and he sacrificed himself for the good of the team. Torres will not do that because that is not his game, that's one of the advantages of having a target man. The whole notion that Drogba was crap in his first 2 season's is nonsense. He basically broke his back in his first season to make the team a better unit. Shevchenko was just Romans mate !

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I'm not saying Drogba was crap. I have always been one of his biggest fans. But not everyone shares my appreciation of the player yet the majority of the fans awarded him patience and time to truly prove himself.

They did not have to award Drogba patience, we were winning games and we looked unstoppable and no striker in world football at that time would of suited our style of play then him. With Torres though he actually might become a liability to the team which i do not want. I never understood why people did not appreciate Drogba to be honest because he was the catalyst of that side.

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I wonder if Torres has been dropped because of what he said. He's spoken the truth but maybe AVB didn't take kindly to him doing so in public.

Hard to say... Because two days ago, he has said :

‘At the moment, when it compromises the running of the team, it has to come to an end. I don’t have a first-choice striker. We have to make choices regarding what we see in training.’

So he may just be applying what he said back then...

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You can say Torres isn't taking his chances, but he's had about eight clear goalscoring chances in six months for us. That begs the question - where is his support? We are so used to seeing Drogba hold the ball up and we are so geared towards the vertical through-ball that anything requiring guile and skill seems to evaporate. Thankfully Mata and Sturridge will offer support, genuine width and additional goal threat, instead of us having to rely on Bosingwa and Ramires driving from deep.

Eight chances that Sturridge would have put away.

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Eight chances that Sturridge would have put away.

But not if he was in form, you must remember, this is incredibly hard for Torres in my opinion, it's took him really hard to settle in a total different style in what we play in, we are a team who can't give him no assistance, and when we do he's not ready for them, and that's because he's not expecting them, and i can't blame him, Torres has a lot on his mind, he's taking shit from the media, thinking about that price tag all the time and i don't think he's getting on well with some of the people at Chelsea, i wouldn't expect a man to keep 100 percent sharp and look out and be aware 24/7 on the pitch in that condition. Infact it's a damn shame he's given up, but to be honest, there's reasons why he has given up.

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According to Torres!

http://www.thesun.co...s-too-slow.html

I can see why he is saying this but he is the one not taking chances he should have! He can't blame anyone.

I agree. I dont think anyone denies it. We haven't had a Central Striker score a goal for us since Drogba at OT in champions League. Hence its not just a problem with Torres.

Aguero has 6 in 4 with Nasri, Tevez, Silva around him. Now compare that to Torres who has had Lampard, Malouda and Anelka around him (I cringed again as I typed that)

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