Five talking points from Game week 9 in the Premier League

Torres makes hay and is it finally time to drop Hart?

Torres with the winner

After a stop-start career so far at Chelsea, Torres is finally looking like the player they brought from Liverpool. The arrival of Jose Mourinho has instilled some new found belief into Torres and is looking more and more capable of leading the plethora of attacking talent that is behind him. The goal against City showed that Torres was willing to chase lost causes and do everything that was possible to create a scoring opportunity, something that was missing his play until now.

Whilst Torres certainly will claim the goal, the reason he got it was a result of yet another blunder by Joe Hart. In an otherwise assured performance, Hart’s fault at the end of the game, cost City the game. The worrying thing for Pellegrini is that this has become a frequent occurrence and there have been too many lapses in concentration and the reasons for keeping him in is wearing thin. After the game, Pellegrini refused to publicly back Hart and he might well be tempted to drop him after his latest error, even if only to make a point.