this is what i think that rafa has been told that torres is the number one. what ever the reasons for him being picked in front of ba it is and will continue to cost us dearly
I'm not sure it's the case of playing Torres because he has to but I think that Benitez was trying to help with Torres' confidence. Basically saying, yeah Ba scored twice on his debut but you're still my main man.
Torres is a confidence player and I can see the reasoning. In the cold light of day and given Ba's 10 minute cameo last night, the decision was probably wrong but then hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Personally Ba deserves a run of games now because he immediately seems to give us that outlet up front and a bit more options but I suspect he'll rotate the 2 regularly.

