Chelsea boss Villas-Boas defends Torres after another blank
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas substituted Fernando Torres in the second-half of their stalemate at Norwich City.
Torres has now not scored since October, and failed to find the back of the net for the 11th Premier League game.
Villas-Boas, though, refused to point the finger of blame at the £50million man.
"We cannot be hypocrites because in the last game against Sunderland everybody praised him for his form," the Portuguese added.
"He could not find the back of the net, but we are not just looking for that - we are looking for him to produce for the team and we had a good amount of chances to win.""Fernando tried really hard. His movement was sharp and effective. He also has a major impact in our offensive game and we were happy with his play," said the Chelsea boss, who elected not to include new signing Gary Cahill in the matchday squad.
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Comments (6)
chelsea should sell drogba..yes!,he has tried for d club,he is 34 n d young handsome spaniard is just 27 n stil very sharp.,Drogba's influenc on d club's previous strikers is d same venom dat is eating up Torres..sell him n give other younger strikers a chance to express themselves..if man u sold ronaldo, milan sold kaka,arsenal sold henri, liverpool sold Torres to chelsea, barca sold eto o, inter sold Ibrahimovich n mre,then who is Drogba..delete d virus n safe ur system from crashing
I know DROGBA will leave Dis summer or he takes 1yr contract. Pls it does not make sense to me Dat everyone saying DROGBA should be sold 4 TORRES to shine! Who is torres when DROGBA stand in CHELSEA FC history. Well AVB is just being technical and dont want torres know he's just a nobody and he'll prefer to soon give LUKAKU a chance since torres cant score Den lukaku may be playing to adjust to CHELSEA FC style instead. Believe it or not TORRES is killing CHELSEA game not VOODOO from DROGBA as some people suggests... Drogba is almost 34yrs and still a fighter on D field; checkout EUFA VALENCIA 2nd leg game, he simply WON it 4 CHELSEA. D entire team want torres to click and it is costing CHELSEA alot... AVB decide to win wit DROGBA or loosing wit toRRes.* ABROMOVICH will flush AVB wit torres if AVB dont decide fast...
the problem not with torres..i saw the game last night..he do the best..the problem is with midfielder....i'm really annoyed especially watching malouda..too slow....if fernando sold to other club who have excellent midfield, mark my word, he absolutely will keep banging the net..AVB seem have no idea about this...chelsea absolutely need to overhaul their midfielder and train how to counter attack efficiently!!!!
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