Carlo Ancelotti confirms Fernando Torres will start against Manchester City
Chelsea’s manager, Carlo Ancelotti, has confirmed that Fernando Torres will start in the top of the table clash against Manchester City on Sunday, despite being benched in the latest stalemate against Copenhagen in the UEFA Champions League.
Ancelotti said, “The only reason (he didn't start) is that we will have these players - Essien, Malouda and Torres - fresh for City. The players not involved from the beginning will play on Sunday. I wanted to maintain the players fresh and with good motivation.
If we want to achieve something, we'll need all the players with good motivation”.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 on the deadline day of January 2011 transfer window, has failed to impress at Stamford Bridge. The Spanish striker has already played six
matches but still hasn’t scored a goal in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 colours.
Initially, Fernando Torres was being preferred over out-of-form http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044 by Chelsea’s manager, Carlo Ancelotti.
However, Torres was dropped back to the bench in the European fixture against Copenhagen and Drogba was given an opportunity to reignite his last season’s goal-scoring form, in which he scored 37 goals.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nicolas-Anelka-c27786, who scored twice in the first leg against Copenhagen, was partnered with Didier Drogba for the second leg. However, both attackers failed to find a breakthrough and Anelka was replaced by Torres in the second half.
Despite marking 25 shots on goal, Chelsea failed to score against Copenhagen.
However, their first leg win has put them through to the quarter-final and they are drawn against Manchester United.
Carlo Ancelotti also confirmed that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Florent-Malouda-c13838, who were on the bench with Fernando Torres in the last match, will start against Manchester City this Sunday.
The former Milan boss confirmed that he has already decided Chelsea’s starting line-up for the upcoming match against Manchester City
He said, “I'd already decided the selection to play against City. The atmosphere now is really good. After Copenhagen, everything was okay. Maybe on Friday we'll have all the squad training. This is important for us to do 100% of our possibilities. If all
these players give 100%, we have a lot of chances of arriving in the final stages. To maintain this we have to try to win every game”.
A win for Carlo Ancelotti’s men will put them within touching distance of league leaders, Manchester United, and increase their odds of retaining the Barclays Premier League title.
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