Ancelotti’s bold prediction: Fernando Torres will score

Pretty please?

You can stop asking if Fernando Torres will ever score again, because Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has answered the question once and for all. Torres has come oh-so-close in his 871 minutes without a goal for club and country (even having one disallowed against West Brom), but according to Ancelotti and his magical eyebrow, all that will change. At some point.

From the Guardian:

"He will score," said the manager, who refused to confirm whether the 27-year-old would start Wednesday night's Premier League match against Birmingham after being restricted to an eight-minute cameo at West Bromwich on Saturday.

Look at that certainty! Surely his manager's supreme confidence will spur Torres to score goals by the bunches. Of course, Ancelotti didn't dare predict when he would score or even go so far as to say it would happen on the pitch. But Carlo is absolutely certain that between now and the eventual apocalypse, Fernando Torres will score at something. It might be in a football match, it might be in Call of Duty, or it might be at a pretending game that one of his children make up. He will score, though. And it will be glorious.

Even a statement as open-ended as "he will score" needs qualifiers, though. I mean, let's not get crazy here...

"He can score if he plays. It's very difficult to change the team that played so well against West Brom, not just for the result, not just for the performance. They did very well against West Bromwich."

Ancelotti revealed he and his coaching staff are not employing any special methods to get Torres scoring. "We are working with him like we are with the other strikers," he said. "He has exercises to score — shooting, crossing — but nothing different from the others.

"I think he wants to score and he's not happy for this reason. I would like to see my players every time happy and with confidence. It's not a good moment for Fernando, but I want to do my best to support him."

Yes, Carlo. I think he wants to score, too. I think he wants to score, too.

Photo: Reuters

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