Didier Drogba defends Chelsea’s current crop of strikers

Jose Mourinho with Fernando Torres

Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has claimed that the current set of strikers at the club are the right ones.

Fernando Torres, Demba Ba and Samuel Eto’o have all be heavily criticised this season for not scoring enough goals but Drogba believes that it is not the quantity of goals that matter, rather it is the big goals that really count and they excel in that.

Torres, Ba and Eto’o have scored a combined 16 goals in the Premier League, just two more than Eden Hazard, who plays on the wing.

Despite this, Drogba revealed in an interview with GQ magazine that he believes the troubled trio are the right fit for this current Chelsea side as they score important goals, citing Ba’s recent late winner against Paris Saint-Germain.

“I really think that the players that are there now are the ones. Why? Because when I was playing there the team was different,” said the Ivorian.

“The strikers… maybe they don’t score 35 goals, but they score very, very important goals. With Demba Ba came off the bench [against Paris St Germain] and hadn’t played for many games? He scored a goal.

“And Fernando, when Chelsea came to play here, nobody expected him to play and he delivers, he scores.

“Big players, big strikers are there for big games and I think they’ve showed that many times.

“Samuel Eto’o has been scoring important goals for Chelsea too. I think it’s a different system, a different time, a different Chelsea. It’s a successful one as well.”

Torres has scored just 19 Premier League goals since signing for Chelsea in 2011 for £50 million.