Match Stories The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: aThere had been the common murmurings of discontent from the minority of the in the stands when Fernando Torresa name was introduced prior to kick-off here, though by the end Chelsea were delighted to own him. The Spaniard has experienced so few journeys like this since his British report transfer from Merseyside but, as though he had come incognito, Rubin Kazan discovered him unrecognisable from the person who has spluttered so often over the last two years together with his face masked. His staff have a two-goal lead to take to Moscow, and Torres has a brace to savour.a The Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter: aThe way things are getting for the English clubs, it could soon be only the blue flag flying saturated in Europe again. With Tottenham Hostpur and Newcastle United putting up with unpleasant evenings on Thursday night, Chelsea look easily the Premier Leagueas best choice to attain the semi-finals of the Europa League, specifically with Fernando Torres refinding his goalscoring contact. Torresas 2nd purpose was a header which a No 9 from yesteryear, Kerry Dixon, could have been proud.a The Independent, Sam Wallace: aTorres is Chelseaas striker for Europe, the evening the person who was purchased to provide the advantage to the membership in the Champions League but was on the table they eventually won it. Today, with Demba Ba cup-tied for the Europa League, he is virtually Rafael Benitezas only solution and yesterday he delivered.a The State Chelsea FC Website: aFernando Torres scored his 17th and 18th objectives of the summer season with Victor Moses netting his seventh to give a cause to the Blues to get to Russia next week.a Goals 16a Torres 1-032a Moses 2-041a Natcho (pencil) 2-170a Torres 3-1 Readersa Responses Cunningplan: An interesting note from the discourse on last nightas sport. If we go on to win this thing, we'd be the first group in the country to win all the European club glasses. This competition has added a little bit more interest and commitment on my part. limetreebower: Iam quite excited relating to this opposition in theory, but last nightas game analyzed me fairly. Like Dr W (and others, I imagine) I was expecting a fairly tough sport, enlivened by the most common amusing European environment. Alternatively Kazan arrived with perhaps 15 fans (for anybody who hasnat seen TV photographs, Iam not kidding) and enjoyed a sluggish, low-tempo, bored-looking game; truly the tie ought to be around, but we were fairly flat too. The whole event relatively overcome all those newspaper articles about how exactly we must provide the Euro Cup more respect. It really screamed second-string. However, at the least we managed to sleep numerous key participants. A number of them a hello Frank, hello Ramires a' were rested despite being in the beginning XI. Iam uncertain what it's possible to draw from the overall game normally. Bertrand still seems like a great player if you ask me, but presumably on Planet Abramovich heas not just a glamorous enough name ever to be always a right Chelsea player so I question heall succeed Cashley long-term. Mata yet again did his far better make us look like a top-class team all by herself. JT had one great Moore-style handle but increasingly appears like our fourth-choice centre-half. I donat think Nando was any better or worse than heas been all year long: as usual he alternated between zipping around with lots of nice little pictures and variations, and mysteriously disappearing from the game. His odds went in for once, but otherwise I didnat see an excessive amount of different. Gleb: Simply to date=june 2011 about Rubin: The fact they'd 15 away supporters and played boring basketball has NOTHING regarding the UEFA Cup. Russian and Eastern European clubs still go VERY really. Itas their Champions League. They do think the remainder of the entire world cares and itas somehow famous. Itas about Rubin it self. Thatas how they are. Which is a mystery. Actually, thereas a semi-grand adebatea today in Russia because a few articles, that coincided with the sport vs Chelsea, actually had the guts to say that Rubin is soulless, has no fans and isn't required by everyone (the issue was the truth they hadnat stated their house arena to the UEFA previous to the contest so they generally have to play someplace else throughout the entire function). The fact remains more complex. Just as a baseball team, they've nothing at all to be ashamed of. Two-time national champions, always perform well in Europe, the only path they, still as a relatively small club, know how to. Theyare very disciplined, very firm, a lot of people like their director and so on and so on. Against Chelsea they just had a poor day. Nevertheless the rest is true. Nobody gives a flying fuck concerning this team at all, even in their house city, which is really the third/fourth important city in Russia, with a rich history, the capital of Tatarstan, a republic of Tatars, who used to be a significant big deal in European history. So itas not like theyare from some distant village. Itas a rich, prosperous city. Buta I have no idea why, not just a concept, but generally no one likes the club over there. Their hockey team is LOVED by them (really appropriate loud fans), their volleyball team is loved by them, but despite being two-time national winners, they couldnat care less. And the membership itself doesnat do anything to promote itself and use the lovers. Couple that with their trademark (no sarcasm) style of defensive (but often effective) football and you get what you get. Disclaimer: Rubin comes with many devoted fans and they're among the best people (compared to fans of other groups) around. And so I hope they take no offense within my words. Itas only that the larger picture is similar to this, and few people can fight with that.
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