Roaming Torres torments City CHELSEA 2-1 MANCHESTER CITY

CHELSEA 2-1 MANCHESTER CITY Sometimes when teams play with a lone striker, the player has a fairly restricted brief: to operate within the width of the penalty area, for instance, serving as a target for teammates or offering them a presence in the penalty box. What Fernando Torres' pitch map at Stamford Bridge shows was how far and wide he roamed in his match-winning display. It made him harder to mark for the City central defenders, Martin Demichelis and Matija Nastasic: He was always up against one. Indeed, there were times when he was up against neither, either in the fullbacks' or the central midfielders' zone of the pitch. There was no one area where Torres was consistently involved. Instead he was willing to go to either flank and to run at defenders. Both were apparent when he created Chelsea's first goal. In something of a role reversal, it was winger Andre Schurrle who arrived in the six-yard box for the tap-in. The touch closest to the City net, of course, was his 90th-minute decider. Fernando Torres' unpredictable movement stretched Manchester City's defence.