Aye what is torres real purpose? stueps
They had him as the lone striker up front....that is not Torres strength, especially with Chelsea's style of play.....Even Drogba came on and was ineffective but Torres was workin' too hard goin' back and defending and havin' to take on too many defenders from all the way in the midfield to be really effective today. mancity had us on our heels for most of the game....
Drogba came on the and the whole pace of the game changed. Everything was faster, and Chelsea started finding a directional attack. Also Torres could not deal with the bullying by Richards and Toure. Drogba came on and minced Richards right away.
RDM got his tactics correct to a point and Chelsea did what they had to do, that is frustrate Silva out the game, allowing him no opportunities to play his passing game behind the back line. After he (Silva) came off and Drogba came on and with the defensive midfielders we had on the field we should have gone into the 4-3-3 formation and press back at City we did not.
Lampard, Essien et al kept dropping, and with that many players joining a back line that late in the game confusion as to marking responsibility will always ensue. RDM should have pushed Lampard higher, with Essien in behind him, bring Drogba Central and Let Mata drift wide, introduced Sturridge and play from their. When Silva went off City Started their wide game and we should have adjusted.
Another problem CFC had yesterday was we had no grimey defenders, With Cole, Cahill, Bosingwa and Luiz making up the back four we had NO Tacklers, a reason Essien was playing so deep to make tackles and not worry about making passes to much, just break up plays and let the back four pick up the balls. And exercise in hiding the soft defense we had out there yesterday.