Comments on: Holding Chelsea back from reaching their full potential?

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:02:10 +0000

I agree with Shady. The double pivot has to play it’s part,especially from the offensive minded player in the pivot. The thing is,Chelsea doesn’t have a proper playmaker deep in midfield. Add Alonso or Schweinsteiger in the pivot and we’ll all see the difference. Torres will recieve early defense splitting passes from deep like he use to at Liverpool from the likes of Gerrad and Alonso. Chelsea’s build up or link up play looks easy on the eye but with no end result. It’s slow and there’s always the obvious thing they do,going wide and let the right back swing in a cross. I mean seriously now! They should be playing through the middle with all that talent behind the striker! But you see now from all that slow build up pretty passing,the opposition has bodies back to defend. How can Torres fight off 3 tall defenders and how can small midfielder get a head onto those crosses? Honestly,I think it’s stupid play.

By: Duus

Duus — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:05:33 +0000

You are true on the RDM sucks at rotating players, but Torres fail to creat chances cause he wong/lack brain to make holes in the defense look at this m8.
http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2012/11/12/3634910/chelsea-fc-liverpool-width-fernando-torres

By: shady

shady — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:50 +0000

i do not believe he is the reason. what we are unable to see is the slowness of the movement of ball from the double pivot up to the attacking trio and then it takes further more time to get to torres. against liverpool here is a stats, zero through balls were played towards torres, absolutely zero. he was the one who got two shots on target while mata missed open chance. putting all the blame on him is not fair. for me, mikel and ramires are equally guilty plus the non-existent rotation policy from rdm is also a big worry. using marin, studge, moses, romeu is going to keep the team fresh and hard to plan against