Frank Lampard

[The Skipper 20,609]

Any goal will do. He needs to break down that brick wall. One on one with the keeper is just as good from open play. It would change his mind set.

It's all ifs and buts now though. Lampard took the penalty and we have another game with no Fernando goal, going into one of the most important ties of the season.

That's bizarre, I don't know how you can even think of it in that way. Fernando isn't that important to us, there is no way we're going to side step both Lampard and Hazard just because Torres needs a goal.

A penalty goal is really not going to suddenly make him start going on a goal spree, you're dreaming.

[Jambo 231]

Fernando isn't that important to us, there is no way we're going to side step both Lampard and Hazard just because Torres needs a goal.

A penalty goal is really not going to suddenly make him start going on a goal spree, you're dreaming.

I don't in anyway think he is going to go on a goal spree because he scored a penalty. However, it looks like, at this stage he is going to be the man who plays up top on Tuesday night. On Tuesday night, each and every single player on the park is going to be extremely important to us. A goal with Fernando's name on it would do him no end of good on a personal level which is good for the team. Even for his team mates to throw him the ball and tell him to take the penalty would have been a boost to his confidence. "Here Torres, you're the striker, this one if for you, we trust you."

[Jambo 231]

At the end of the day, we need two goals on Tuesday, minimum. I don't care if they come from Torres or Cech but a goal for Torres today wouldn't have been a bad thing.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Even for his team mates to throw him the ball and tell him to take the penalty would have been a boost to his confidence. "Here Torres, you're the striker, this one if for you, we trust you."

That's the thing though, they don't trust him.

I'm tired of Torres and his confidence issues, he's not a little boy. If a CL all or nothing knockout game won't motivate him to begin with then God help us. I really hope Eto'o is fit for this.

[Jambo 231]

That's the thing though, they don't trust him.

I'm tired of Torres and his confidence issues, he's not a little boy. If a CL all or nothing knockout game won't motivate him to begin with then God help us. I really hope Eto'o is fit for this.

Eto'o not even making the bench today is almost a sure sign he won't be starting on Tuesday. There seems to have been a method in Jose's madness by playing Torres for 90 mins today.

[The_Flash 1,144]

Well Done Frankie 250 !!!

[Blue Armour 4,436]

Post above. Fernando needed a goal for himself and the team.

Maybe at 3-0. Not when we had to double the lead at a crucial part of the game.

[LAM09 7,043]

Maybe at 3-0. Not when we had to double the lead at a crucial part of the game.

Spot on. If Torres took it and missed it, anything could have happened in the game. We have given pen's to Torres before, and he has missed them.

[Mário César 1,236]

super super frank lampard

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I don't mind Lamps staying another year...as a player/coach

I think we should be 'phasing' out our English veterans:

End of 2014 season: Cole leaves

End of 2015 season: Lamps leaves

End of 2016 season: Possibly Terry hangs up the boots?

At same time, we should be bringing young english players, two must be at minimum.

Doubt Sturridge, Wilshere, Rooney, Ox will ever get here, we need to pick whats best remaining; Shaw and Lallana/Barkley.

[LAM09 7,043]

At same time, we should be bringing young english players, two must be at minimum.

Doubt Sturridge, Wilshere, Rooney, Ox will ever get here, we need to pick whats best remaining; Shaw and Lallana/Barkley.

Mceachren if he ever comes back.

[Styles 9,790]

That's the thing though, they don't trust him.

I'm tired of Torres and his confidence issues, he's not a little boy. If a CL all or nothing knockout game won't motivate him to begin with then God help us. I really hope Eto'o is fit for this.

I watch the football on Al Jazeera sometimes and Richard Keys always brings up an Ancelotti quote that 'Torres is the weakest individual I have met in football'. I can't find a link for the comment but Keys has said it several times.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I watch the football on Al Jazeera sometimes and Richard Keys always brings up an Ancelotti quote that 'Torres is the weakest individual I have met in football'. I can't find a link for the comment but Keys has said it several times.

I think he's made it up, doesn't change that it's true, though

PS: Keys is ten times the pundit that Andy Gray is.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

I watch the football on Al Jazeera sometimes and Richard Keys always brings up an Ancelotti quote that 'Torres is the weakest individual I have met in football'. I can't find a link for the comment but Keys has said it several times.

I think what Ancelloti said was that Drogba would do away with mentally weaker competition like Torres (and Schevchenko) in the squad. This was back in 2012 withAVB, when people wondered why Drogba was being preferred to Torres...

[robsblubot 3,595]

It's a simplistic view to say players lack motivation/desire when they don't perform. Sometimes they just don't have the quality to do it. Some other times they lack physically. Otherwise we'd have to say Lampard hasn't been motivated lately, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Wanting something doesn't mean you are capable of executing it. Lampard of 5 years ago would've have scored at least one in open play last match. He knows it too as he was really upset after his feeble attempt on goal.

Would it be fair to say whoever does not run like Ramires is not motivated enough?

There is little he can do at 35 though. He's on his last legs and should either take a backup role or leave to a lesser league. That's life for footballers no matter how good you are/were.

Best option in my mind would be a backup to coaching role, but if he wants to leave and then come back as a coach, that'd be fine too.