Campbell was invited to work with Torres at the suggestion of Dr Bryan English, the then Chelsea medical director whom Campbell knew from his days as the UK Athletics doctor, though the relationship ended when English was sacked by Andre Villas-Boas, when he was manager at Stamford Bridge. “I only did about two or three ­sessions with Fernando but I could see his confidence coming back,” Campbell said.

“The biggest problem is that when you lose your speed you’re unable to do what you used to be able to do, and so then you start trying harder and harder. But that can be counterproductive.

“If you want to be quick, there’s an element of relaxation that’s involved. You’ve only got to look at Gareth Bale. He runs at high speed but it’s all relaxed and there’s no tension in him. The problem with someone like Fernando Torres is that the harder he tries to find that speed, his efforts are actually detrimental.”
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Campbell traces Torres’s problems back to the injury-blighted World Cup campaign in 2010. “One of the things I say to managers and physios is that when players get injured they tend to work on their endurance to get them match fit but they don’t work on their speed. When you’ve got players who are quick and have basically built their game around their explosive speed, once that speed goes, you almost have to learn a new way of playing the game because you can’t rely on what you had before.

“There was an interesting incident against Manchester City at the weekend when Fernando got the ball and tried to knock it out of his feet and go past Vincent Kompany and James Milner, but they both caught him.

“Kompany we know is very quick but Milner is not exactly lightning by any stretch of the imagination, so that told you all you need to know. A striker without any natural speed wouldn’t have knocked the ball out of his legs to chase after. It shows that he is playing as if he still believes he has the speed, but he clearly hasn’t.”

Campbell gleaned from Torres during their brief association that the player worked with a sprint coach during his days at Atletico Madrid.

“A sprint coach could help him,” Campbell said. “I’m 100 per cent sure of that. I do believe that if you can put the speed back into his legs then, boy, you will see a very different and far more confident Fernando Torres.”

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Schurlle anyone?

Chelsea are reviving interest in Bayer Leverkusen striker Andre Schurrle.

The Mirror says Roman Abramovich sent his top scout to watch the powerful forward in action for Bayer Leverkusen last night as the Stamford Bridge club prepare a new offer.

Time to change... any one.. John Terry ---> Player Manager?

sucky match for chelsea omai .
torres assist and mata goal so happy , then shit happens.
kick RA away la , really bored of this all these shit

this is unacceptable. draw 2 matches without goal and continued with lose.

why the team wont defend the lead goal.. just why..

http://en.toty.uefa.com/

comeon share ur team .... we r champion, of cos i vote for cfc hahaha ..

Is Chelsea trying to build Brazil national team? hmmm....

Shevchenko to be chelsea coaching stuff?
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