Fernando Torres

[Guest justin_3d]

He did well to pass the keeper before. If we carry on playing the way we have, I see no reason why Torres wont score loads and why we wont win lots of games.

Yeah i think he will start scoring more goal.

But AVB must keep giving him all the time and not sub him out.

His confidence could have been high had he scored 3 goals today, so it might take a bit longer now. But he def. has come a long way then last season.

[St Abramovich 175]

Enough with Torres threads please.

This is Torres' thread.

Edited September 18, 2011 by St Abramovich

[termninja 5,290]

This is Torres' thread.

There was another one created so I merged it. My bad for forgetting add that to my post.

[Swoopz 183]

Edited September 18, 2011 by Swoopz

[Guest justin_3d]

Painful to watch.

But as Graeme said (who i think is bias, and one sided to Liverpool) anyone can make that mistake.

Those guys in skysport believe that Torres is back.

If AVB plays Torres next game as starter, i feel more confident in him continuing his goals or assist.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

He supposedly scored a goal, today against our biggest rivals, with a world class finish, yet we are keep talking about the one miss he did? Rooney scored a brace, but would everyone keep talking about him missing his penalty completely?

The only video i have seen of the game so far is the Torres's miss, but yet it feel likes trying to find something sacred and to never to be seen. Torres played an exceptional game, and a follow up from the good game in CL where he got 2 assists. Confidence should be coming from him in the next game, if he can put his head into the game and go for every ball he can. I look at today as a positive and not a negative. Despite the horrorendous performance by our defence, which cost us any points - our attack clicked, and once Lampard went off, we became twice the team.

We have to take the fact we are emerging from a re-grouping for our team, and should be proud we are putting such excellent performances, in such early days in what could be an excellent era for our club.

[Term-X 7,891]

[Kieran. 6,317]

Media hasn't been as mean as I thought. A lot of people believe Torres is back.

[dodojojo 510]

He is so right footed. He probably just over thunk it and should have gone with his instinct--which would have been to flick it with the outside of his right foot.

I'm just pleading with everyone, the gods, the spirits whatever to laugh at the miss and acknowledge it was a double face palm but that the real meat of the matter was the movement and passing to get Torres into scoring positions today. First time I've seen it for a game in 8 months.

[bababoom 4,478]

I think people are making a big deal about his confidence, yes he missed a chance, but he will probably be more eager to try and score now.

He played well today, and he scored.

Rooney missed some good chances but i bet the media wont talk about that.

[Corlett 202]

Hopefully he just laughs it off

[Peace. 4,352]

Lol. The guy is blind. Our best player is Mata.

[bababoom 4,478]

It's funny that Torres plays his best game, once people actually start putting him through on goal. That's all he need people to put him through.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Media hasn't been as mean as I thought. A lot of people believe Torres is back.

Good to hear that, I'm not reading any reports till tomorrow..

[TomCFC 356]

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson on Fernando Torres' miss: "I thought he was bound to score. It was a bad miss, he had so much time. It reminded me of one that Diego Forlan missed for us against Juventus in a pre-season friendly."

[eldo 868]

This is going to work positively on him. Torres has a strong character.

[dodojojo 510]

Hopefully he just laughs it off

Seriously, with time, I hope he can joke about it. It really was that bad.

[The Big Drog 1,110]

I don't cry often about football (Terry in Moscow and Champions League semi final second leg against Barca being the exceptions) but I was bloody close today when Torres missed it. He doesn't deserve it, he doesn't deserve the media hate campaign against him, he doesn't deserve the dissension he causes among Chelsea fans, he doesn't deserve the rotten luck. Today we saw Fernando Torres, not the broken down and battered Torres, not the disiniterested Torres that has a tendancy to shrug his shoulders, not the ineffective to the point of invisible Torres, no, today we saw Fernando Torres, Euro 2008 hero, one of the truly great talents in world football, one of the finest strikers to have graced European football in the last decade. Everything he did exuded class, the little lay offs, the neat 1-2's, the breathtaking off the ball movement and the most sublime of finishes, finally Fernando Torres took the mantle as Chelsea's great player.

But heartbreakingly all we will hear about is the miss. Realistically at 3-1 with around 10 minutes to go it was improbably that we would have scored an equaliser anyway but that wont matter to the media, it will be Torres who lost us the game, not 2 poor decision from the linesman and not some shoddy defending for the 3rd, no all of that will be disregarded because Torres missed, there will be scarce mention of his goal or his superb run to set up Ramires (which imo was a bigger miss at 1-0 in the first half) no, as usual it will be Fernando Torres who has caused the downfall of Chelsea.

I hope today's performance (miss aside) will bring confidence back to his game, imo he was our best player by a long way. The key now will be his reaction in the next game, if he plays with the same attitude and carries a bit of confidence out of this with him then maybe it will all have been worth it, if we as a team can keep playing in that manner then it will only help Torres.