{"id":405882,"date":"2011-04-28T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/chelsea-manager-carlo-ancelotti-hints-at-pairing-didier-drogba-and-fernando-torres-against-tottenham\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:52:00","slug":"chelsea-manager-carlo-ancelotti-hints-at-pairing-didier-drogba-and-fernando-torres-against-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/chelsea-manager-carlo-ancelotti-hints-at-pairing-didier-drogba-and-fernando-torres-against-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hints at pairing Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres against Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Ben Crump<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Apr 2011 21:52:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.4714784633\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d95beea4128910_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"17.6308470291\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/59\/carlo-ancelotti\">Carlo Ancelotti<\/a> has a tough decision going into the crunch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a> tie with Tottenham on Saturday but remains confident in his strike partnership of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/1442\/fernando-torres\">Fernando Torres<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/497\/didier-drogba\">Didier Drogba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anything other than a win could hand the Premier League title to Manchester United but he insists he is fully behind Drogba and Torres despite the pair failing to impress since the latter&#8217;s move to the club in January.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;When you have very good players, you&#8217;ve have to try to put them together,&#8221; he told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Maybe they can sacrifice something of their ability, of their skills, but they can play together. If you are able to do this, I think it is good for the team, to get good results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, it&#8217;s too early to take a decision about this because we have another training session on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But I think it will not be a surprise if they can start on Saturday together. They trained well. They tried to have a good combination together.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ancelotti has had to listen to some of his players&#8217; thoughts regarding what formation is best for the London club but the Italian remains adamant he makes all the decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The best solution would be to play 4-4-2 if they play together,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think that we don&#8217;t have a problem to play 4-4-2 or 4-3-3. The result doesn&#8217;t depend on the shape that you use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The result depends on the motivation that the players have, on the spirit that the players use on the pitch during the game.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_172.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/28\/2462789\/chelsea-manager-carlo-ancelotti-hints-at-pairing-didier\" title=\"Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hints at pairing Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres against Tottenham\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hints at pairing Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres against Tottenham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Ben Crump 28 Apr 2011 21:52:00 Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea Related Links Teams Players Carlo Ancelotti has a tough decision going into the crunch Premier League tie with Tottenham on Saturday but remains confident in his strike partnership of Fernando Torres and Didier Drogba . Anything other than a win could hand the Premier League title to Manchester United but he insists he is fully behind Drogba and Torres despite the pair failing to impress since the latter&#8217;s move to the club in January. &#8220;When you have very good players, you&#8217;ve have to try to put them together,&#8221; he told Sky Sports <\/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-405882","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>Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hints at pairing Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres against Tottenham - 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\/28\/chelsea-manager-carlo-ancelotti-hints-at-pairing-didier-drogba-and-fernando-torres-against-tottenham\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hints at pairing Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres against Tottenham - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Ben Crump 28 Apr 2011 21:52:00 Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea Related Links Teams Players Carlo Ancelotti has a tough decision going into the crunch Premier League tie with Tottenham on Saturday but remains confident in his strike partnership of Fernando Torres and Didier Drogba . 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