{"id":360927,"date":"2011-04-02T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/team-news-fernando-torres-on-the-bench-as-chelsea-face-stoke\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T13:15:00","slug":"team-news-fernando-torres-on-the-bench-as-chelsea-face-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/team-news-fernando-torres-on-the-bench-as-chelsea-face-stoke\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres on the bench as Chelsea face Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>2 Apr 2011 14:15:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"71.940298507463\">\n<div readability=\"16.663366336634\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BPL, Chelsea and Liverpool, Fernando Torres (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ffee189a123566_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>BPL, Chelsea and Liverpool, Fernando Torres (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"44.705364995602\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>\u2019s \u00a350 million man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/1442\/fernando-torres\">Fernando Torres<\/a> has been left on the bench for today\u2019s Premier League trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/717\/stoke-city\">Stoke City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to net since his record transfer from Liverpool, the Spaniard must continue to wait for his first goal in a blue shirt with Carlo Ancelotti preferring Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba in attack.<\/p>\n<p>The two strikers return to the starting line-up having begun the victory over Manchester City on the bench with Saloman Kalou also starting as a substitute. Elsewhere Jose Bosingwa replaces Branislav Ivanovic at the back.<\/p>\n<p>Stoke, meanwhile, are unchanged from the side that hammered Newcastle United 4-0 last time out as they aim to make it three wins in a row.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stoke: Begovic; Wilson, Shawcross, Huth, Higginbotham; Pennant, Whelan, Delap, Etherington; Walters, Jones.<br \/>Subs: Nash, Collins, Pugh, Diao,Whitehead,Wilkinson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea: Cech; Bosingwa, Luiz, Terry, Cole; Ramires, Essien, Lampard, Malouda; Anelka , Drogba.<br \/>Subs: Turnbull, Ivanovic, Torres, Mikel, Zhirkov, Ferreira, Kalou.<br \/><em><br \/><\/em><span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ffee189a123566_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/02\/2422739\/team-news-fernando-torres-on-the-bench-as-chelsea-face-stoke\" title=\"TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres on the bench as Chelsea face Stoke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres on the bench as Chelsea face Stoke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 2 Apr 2011 14:15:00 BPL, Chelsea and Liverpool, Fernando Torres (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Chelsea \u2019s \u00a350 million man Fernando Torres has been left on the bench for today\u2019s Premier League trip to Stoke City . Having failed to net since his record transfer from Liverpool, the Spaniard must continue to wait for his first goal in a blue shirt with Carlo Ancelotti preferring Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba in attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres on the bench as Chelsea face Stoke - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/team-news-fernando-torres-on-the-bench-as-chelsea-face-stoke\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres on the bench as Chelsea face Stoke - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"2 Apr 2011 14:15:00 BPL, Chelsea and Liverpool, Fernando Torres (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Chelsea \u2019s \u00a350 million man Fernando Torres has been left on the bench for today\u2019s Premier League trip to Stoke City . 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