Torres: Premiership Defenders Are Dodgy!

this league is the best in the world in my arse, in such a doggy league even rooney cant score, says really all

http://goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=723987


Spanish super-striker Fernando Torres has risked becoming public enemy number one amongst opponents next season by publicly ridiculing the ability of Premiership keepers and defenders. He also raised eyebrows by suggesting that Chelsea stars Petr Cech and Ricardo Carvalho are two of the only people in England's top division who really know how to keep the ball out of the net.


“But the truth is most of them lack defensive positioning as a result of their reliance on strength and aggression and

Finally, the ex Atletico Madrid prodigy admitted that there is one Premiership defender that he doesn't fancy coming across.

He said: “Terry is captain so gets a much higher profile. But he’s only secondary to Carvalho. Ricky is superb. He has every quality that is needed.”

Tell me who were the CL finalist and how many goals they shipped through out the campaign.
Tell me how many times he got past Rio Ferdinand.

They are actually very interesting comments from torres

He always has something thoughtful to say rather than the usual rubbish you hear from footballers

COTR wrote:They are actually very interesting comments from torres

He always has something thoughtful to say rather than the usual rubbish you hear from footballers

What other pearls has he come out with then Coater?

Parks lives wrote: What other pearls has he come out with then Coater?

Well you could try reading the article

He singles out Cech and Van der Sar as the hardest keepers to play against.

Roger Hunt wrote:

Parks lives wrote: What other pearls has he come out with then Coater?

Well you could try reading the article

He singles out Cech and Van der Sar as the hardest keepers to play against.

Ground breaking stuff, the two keepers from the top 2 teams in england. WOW.

Coming from Spanish league in which a club like Valencia boasted players like Helguera in defence.

Roger Hunt wrote:

Parks lives wrote: What other pearls has he come out with then Coater?

Well you could try reading the article

He singles out Cech and Van der Sar as the hardest keepers to play against.

I've read it. CotR said he - 'He always has something thoughtful to say rather than the usual rubbish you hear from footballers'. So I was wondering what else he has said that is so thoughtful?

Cech and VdS are the hardest to play against because other keepers tend to go to ground too early so they are easy to go around in 1-on-1s - so he tends to hit the ball early against Man U and Chelsea

Most premiership defenders rely on strength and aggression but their lack of positional sense means that he has more space than he is used to

The goalkeeping coach works with him before every game, telling him how each opposition keeper likes to play

He gets less chances at Liverpool, but they are better quality chances than he got at Atletico

He talks up Kuyt's contribution, citing the amount of work he puts in and how he creates space for Torres by pulling defenders away.

Toni Kroos wrote:He also raised eyebrows by suggesting that Chelsea stars Petr Cech and Ricardo Carvalho are two of the only people in England's top division who really know how to keep the ball out of the net.

Hansen take note.

Roger Hunt wrote:Cech and VdS are the hardest to play against because other keepers tend to go to ground too early so they are easy to go around in 1-on-1s - so he tends to hit the ball early against Man U and Chelsea

Most premiership defenders rely on strength and aggression but their lack of positional sense means that he has more space than he is used to

The goalkeeping coach works with him before every game, telling him how each opposition keeper likes to play

He gets less chances at Liverpool, but they are better quality chances than he got at Atletico

He talks up Kuyt's contribution, citing the amount of work he puts in and how he creates space for Torres by pulling defenders away.

I dont about that. he was most known for missing obvious chances by the dozens.

what about reina and carragher

kick in the balls for them


torres made no friends with this article

Super Madrid wrote:

Roger Hunt wrote:Cech and VdS are the hardest to play against because other keepers tend to go to ground too early so they are easy to go around in 1-on-1s - so he tends to hit the ball early against Man U and Chelsea

Most premiership defenders rely on strength and aggression but their lack of positional sense means that he has more space than he is used to

The goalkeeping coach works with him before every game, telling him how each opposition keeper likes to play

He gets less chances at Liverpool, but they are better quality chances than he got at Atletico

He talks up Kuyt's contribution, citing the amount of work he puts in and how he creates space for Torres by pulling defenders away.

I dont about that. he was most known for missing obvious chances by the dozens.

I agree, Torres missed a 1v1 atleast once every match.

Toni Kroos wrote:what about reina and carragher

kick in the balls for them


torres made no friends with this article

When would he play against them, dipsh*t?

Parks lives wrote:

Toni Kroos wrote:what about reina and carragher

kick in the balls for them


torres made no friends with this article

When would he play against them, dipsh*t?

in the training

and its clearly that he include this both players too

we all know carrager is very limited in what he is doing, in every other league he would be average

Toni Kroos wrote:in the training

and its clearly that he include this both players too

we all know carrager is very limited in what he is doing, in every other league he would be average

What, you mean like in the champions league where he has been nominated by UEFA in the past as one of the top defenders in the tournament?

Anyone would think that with your gloating attitude you are trying to convince us that the EPL is a laughing stock and the Bundesliga, and its best team getting thrashed 4-0 in the UEFA cup semi finals, isnt

I don't know if Prem defenders are necessarily not as good, because clearly the league has some of the best defenders in Europe. I think Torres' hit and run style is more suited to the league though; maybe a bit like Henry.

David Villa has been the better player in Spain for the national side, though he has a different style of play, and could join the EPL and MAY struggle, or may not make as much of an impact as Torres

horses for courses...

Horses

Toni Kroos wrote:He also raised eyebrows by suggesting that Chelsea stars Petr Cech and Ricardo Carvalho are two of the only people in England's top division who really know how to keep the ball out of the net.

Ricardo Carvalho rocks. Best central defender in the world.

Toni Kroos wrote:He also raised eyebrows by suggesting that Chelsea stars Petr Cech and Ricardo Carvalho are two of the only people in England's top division who really know how to keep the ball out of the net.

Then how come he is Rio Ferdinand's bitch?

Does anyone realise that the press twist words? I doubt Torres said they were the only two people who can keep the ball out of the net, the article appeared firstly in the s*n FFS says it all

"The central defenders (in the Premier League) are usually big, strong, aggressive lads but Ricky is superb. He has every quality that is needed."

somehow gets twisted in to

Torres: Premiership Defenders Are Dodgy!

Luis wrote:Does anyone realise that the press twist words? I doubt Torres said they were the only two people who can keep the ball out of the net, the article appeared firstly in the s*n FFS says it all

No where in the article does he say that.. Its typical spin. Saying they lack positioning isnt ridiculing them, its the truth, he goes past some of them way too easily.

The media spin is second only to the stupidity of some of the posters on here, e.g. the following seems to be a quote:

“The central defenders are usually big, strong, aggressive lads. I guess it is probably because of these characteristics that the majority think they can solve problems by getting tough with me.

“But the truth is most of them lack defensive positioning as a result of their reliance on strength and aggression and leave so much space for you to take advantage of.”

Did people while reading this suddenly think it applies to all, not most of them as he directly says? I sometimes wonder about the thought processes of people reading this stuff.

How many carvalho types are there: carvahlo, rio, gallas, toure maybe

and the other big aggressive types: terry, ben haim, vidic, brown, yobo, taylor, faye, neill, melberg, knight, riggot, wheater, samba, nelsen, hreidersen, konchesky, hughes, and of course carragher, hyppia although he wouldn't face them in a match

maybe I am being unfair on a few of the above guys and they are decent footballers but they are the types to rely on aggression and strength

and this is looking at only the top few teams, imagine I didn;t even check derby, birmingham, reading, sunderland etc

Its worse in Spain defending , imagine Cygan Josemi doing decent jobs there.

DS wrote:Its worse in Spain defending , imagine Cygan Josemi doing decent jobs there.

Defending in spain is not what its made out to be.first of all defenders have to be able to take care of stuff on their own often which is harder then when you have back up.

Let's see how Ronaldo does against Spanish defences next season

He probably would destroy the defences.

Afellay wrote:He probably would destroy the defences.

Or he will probably be Cr@p like against Barça. But we don't know yet do we? So let's just wait and see.