Guinness Moment: Galatasary & Fulham

A fairly simple task this week to nominate the Guinness moment. After all there was not much to shout about in a tactical and attritional game against Galatasary, and the first half against Fulham was devoid of quality.

However, Torres goal against Galatasary is definitely worth a shout – not least as it was a rare Torres goal. Having said that Torres does have a habit of scoring regularly in Europe so fair play to him. And it was a decent goal. A great run and cut back by the increasingly impressive Azpi was expertly finished away from his body by Torres for an all important away goal. Top class finish and it got me out of my seat (no mean feat these days!).

The second half against Fulham was all about two men. Eden Hazard and Andre Schurrle. As the saying goes, “you tee them up and I’ll hit ’em”, and that’s exactly what Eden Hazard did for Schurrle as he created two of his three goals. Torres came up with the other assist for the Jonny Bravo look alikes hat-trick. This is the third hat-trick scored by a Chelsea player this season (somewhat surprisingly), the others being Eto’0 and Hazard. Although a midfield player, all three of Schurrle’s goals were finished with the aplomb of a top class striker. Let’s hope that both Jose and Chelsea’s strikers take note – Schurrle could possibly do a job for us up front on this form. The Guinness nomination goes to Schurrle’s third and hat-trick completing goal – not necessarily the best of the three, but hat-trick’s are special whoever scores them and whoever they are against. And again it got me out of my seat in celebration.

It is not easy to surpass a hat-trick, but if there is one moment and one man who can then it would have to be Eden Hazard. Another mazy run beating Fulham players at leisure, and then he takes it to the byline to deliver a wonderful cross right on to the head of Torres, but even better it was a ‘rabona’ delivered with the outside of his counter-foot. Very few players can do this at all, let alone do it so expertly. Harazard is such a player. The only disappointment being that Torres could not match the quality of the cross by heading the ball in, although some credit should be given to the Fulham defender for getting in the way. Shame as this surely would have been one of the goals of the season.

Here’s how the vote went down on the Chelsea FanCast this week:

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