Fernando Torres

[TrippingStep 336]

Torres-Gerrard-Alonso

It was a good partnership. He had youth on his side and was confident. He's lost his acceleration and finishing.

His goal record wasn't very impressive at A Madrid. His first Liverpool season was great, second was good, third was poor.

I've never been a fan of Torres.

And while he was scoring a lot at Liverpool in big matches, against the teams that were sitting deep, he was already not that great at Liverpool.

Add to that he lost his acceleration after his knee injury and he is average.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Completely unfair to criticise him as very few chances were created.Our approach to the game was to get a draw and Torres pitched in by defending whenever he could.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I cant really blame him. He made a lot of runs at the near post and willian and hazard never passed to him. Not even one cross like arsenal did for giroud. Torres experienced what lukaku has experienced at everton this december in this arsenal match.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I actually thought he was excellent. He kept the Arsenal back four busy by him self. Chased every lost cause. Showed good physicality and a lot of pace. And won first balls quite often. I'm happy with his performance.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Absolutely, considering we weren't really set up to attack, he did absolutely everything he could.

[Tomo 21,733]

I felt a better striker would have won us this match, Torres did lose the ball in key areas. He tried hard last night ill give him that, but he just isn't Chelsea quality.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Decent performance but as Tomo said above an elite striker like Suarez or Aguero would've nicked the game for us.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

The last time a #Chelsea striker scored a Premier League goal away from home was 8 Dec 2012."

So no away goals from a striker in the calender year? Perfect.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Defending at its best

[dee25 1,044]

Looks like I'm in the minority but I thought he was the worst player on the pitch. Every time the ball was played into his feet it resulted in a turnover. He caused 3 turnovers, made 18 passes and had a pass success rate of 67%. It's one thing for your striker not to be scoring goals consistently, but when they can't even hold the ball up and are constantly turning over possession each time they touch the ball, it makes it even more difficult to build attacks.

[Zoro 151]

To think, we could have had Aguero instead of Torres....

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Imagine if he had scored against Liverpool??? This could hv turned out different.

[Steve 10,227]

Defending at its best

He does the same when trying to score.

[Blue Warrior 109]

If only Torres could be struck by lightning and remember how good he used to be. At this rate he will be pensioned off to Spain.

[Tomo 21,733]

Looks like I'm in the minority but I thought he was the worst player on the pitch. Every time the ball was played into his feet it resulted in a turnover. He caused 3 turnovers, made 18 passes and had a pass success rate of 67%. It's one thing for your striker not to be scoring goals consistently, but when they can't even hold the ball up and are constantly turning over possession each time they touch the ball, it makes it even more difficult to build attacks.

Put it this way, if Eto'o or Ba performed like he did yesterday, there wouldn't be many going on about how 'hard' the supposedly worked.

[Strike 7,217]

Put it this way, if Eto'o or Ba performed like he did yesterday, there wouldn't be many going on about how 'hard' the supposedly worked.

think we're past the point where we expect output from Torres. Most of the posts on here reek of sympathy now

[Styles 9,790]

Put it this way, if Eto'o or Ba performed like he did yesterday, there wouldn't be many going on about how 'hard' the supposedly worked.

This, this, this, this, this!

And to make it worse, Torres is the one that cost 50m yet he has less demanded of him for some reason. He just needs to turn up and people will be falling over themselves telling you 'how hard he worked'. Ba does the same and he's a donkey who isn't Chelsea material. You couldn't make it up.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

The meltdown even after a rare decent performance.