Chelsea legend, John Terry feels the Spaniard’s confidence was ‘shot to bits’ due to the error.
Recall that Torres made a £50 million move from Liverpool to Chelsea in January 2011.
Carlo Ancelotti opted to start Torres but the Spaniard was substituted after just 66 minutes after struggling to make an impact, much to the delight of the travelling Liverpool supporters who had jeered him constantly throughout the match.
Terry dismissed with Carragher’s suggestion that Ancelotti would have been pressure by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to play Torres in that game against Liverpool.
But the former Chelsea captain believes Ancelotti was unable to find the right tactical balance when he played Torres in the same team as Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.
‘I’m not sure it would’ve been pressure from above,’ Terry said in response to Carragher.
‘Carlo definitely wasn’t that type of manager to listen to the board if they were kind of pushing.
We kind of changed our formation, really. I think it was Didier and Fernando up front with Anelka in behind.
‘We had three unbelievable strikers and we tried to fit them in together. We had enough fire power in Didier and Anelka, whether Anelka was wide or just behind, to then bring Fernando on later in the game which would’ve been a good impact for him, I think.
‘But it seemed after that game his confidence was shot to bits, to be honest.’
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