Fernando Torres

[Las7 951]

He is taking the piss with his finishing. Thankfully Schurrle rescued his ass from crucifiction

[The only place to be 11,313]

Really didn't think he was that bad. Made some chances for himself, forced the keeper to make some saves, did well in the air and got an assist.

He's not the world-class performer we probably need but in his second game back from injury he put in a creditable performance.

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

+1 Assist.

[Las7 951]

Yeah that was a massive assist - game changing

[The Skipper 20,593]

Not an awful performance but not good enough either. Dead average, and really should've attacked the ball better when Eden did his rabona cross.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

His gettin into scoring positions more which is really good because he surely wont keep missin. Think he will even get better this season, maybe not to world class level but to a level tht might just win us the title

[Kish9 50]

Had an okay game today, should have scored but unlike what some people think he didn't miss those chances. First of all fair play to him for chasing down the keeper into making a mistake and if you see the right angle of the replays, the keeper actually saves it.as for the second chance with Hazards rabona he headed the ball but it was blocked by the back of the defenders head. Yes he could have attacked it....but what if he wouldnt have had made as good contact. Cant wait till we get a proper striker though to make and score more chances than any of our current strikers

[YouNameIt 1,511]

Always excuses in this thread. No, he wont get better. And having "an okay game" isnt even close good enough for Chelsea.

I will throw the biggest party ever when this cancer is removed from Chelsea.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

He did a decent job for us today, I felt. Very unfortunate not to have scored. Led the line well - might have scored two goals on another day. Lovely assist, decent link-up play. 9 goals and 4 assists in 17 starts, I'll take that.

[manpe 10,857]

I was fuming when in the first half he forced Stekelenburg into that mistake and fought out a good opportunity for us, but instead of squaring it to an open teammate for an easy finish, he decided for a moment he was the lethal confident Torres of old and shot himself at a tight angle, which he of course missed (well it got saved but that's what you expect at that angle). Sure he can score every now and then or even put in a good shift, but this guy is just not worth it... just isn't. I know I have ranted about him a lot in the past and have been on a bit of hiatus for a while, but it's high time I vented again.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Shocking miss from Hazard's cross but showed strength to assist Schurrle's goal. Just feel bad for him nowadays. He needs to leave us in the summer. For his and Chelsea's sake.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Okay game, but ZERO goals, missing easy chances. He's just a disastrously poor player and he hurts us, especially in the PL.

Look at that. It's the sort of stuff Diego Costa gobbles up easily. The sort of stuff any decent striker would score from. When your teammate is good enough to do something like that, the least you can do is return the favour.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Clever play from Schurrle in that move too.

[Kish9 50]

Okay game, but ZERO goals, missing easy chances. He's just a disastrously poor player and he hurts us, especially in the PL.

Look at that. It's the sort of stuff Diego Costa gobbles up easily. The sort of stuff any decent striker would score from. When your teammate is good enough to do something like that, the least you can do is return the favour.

If our defender had blocked the ball like that it would be regarded as great. If a defender blocks the ball then no striker would have definitely scored

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I don't know if this article has been posted on this Torres thread, but it sheds some light on what REALLY happened to Nando. Of course it doesn't explain why he inexplicably misses open goals, but it explains why he no longer strikes fear in the hearts of opposition defenders.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/9088027/what-went-wrong

[Strike 6,968]

he's still pretty good when he has lot of space to run into. he has 13 goals in his last 17 European games. that's like a proper striker stat and looking back, goals against Rubin, Schalke, Gala, everywhere he's had loads of space to run beyond the defenders

[Baba 10]

Didn't you have another striker who is good with space to run into? Oh no, he's at Everton.

[Jase 43,479]

he's still pretty good when he has lot of space to run into. he has 13 goals in his last 17 European games. that's like a proper striker stat and looking back, goals against Rubin, Schalke, Gala, everywhere he's had loads of space to run beyond the defenders

Any striker or player for that matter, would look good if they have lots of space to play and operate with. Seriously, if Torres only performs when he gets space from the opposition, we would be better off just having a poacher like Hernandez, Gomez etc. And let's not even forget that Mourinho was berating Torres in that first half from the touchline yesterday. Clearly wasn't happy at all with what he was doing.