It’s Juventus next for us tomorrow night and it looks as if this is another game our top goalscorer is likely to miss, with Guus Hiddink saying “Will Anelka be fit? I doubt it. He is working but has been out now for many days. We’ll see what his reaction is to some treatment plus training.”

So, it looks as if we’ll be relying on Didier Drogba to get us however many away goals we end up needing and whilst that’s not a prospect that would have inspired many of us a few weeks ago, the fact that he’s scored three in five since Hiddink arrived is a little more hopeful.

Hiddink definitely seems impressed with the work-rate he’s seen from the Ivorian, stating “From the first day, when I saw him at Watford in the FA Cup, and after that, for me he has been a guy who has been working hard. I have had no complaints about his attitude and commitment and he is working hard in training and in games. I don’t want to judge what happened before I came here but outside of training sessions with the whole group, we are also doing a specific programme with him and that is paying off.  He likes to do it. It is not that I have to force him to do extra work. We focus on what is asked and demanded in the game. He wants to do it and, when it is paying off like at Coventry, it is perfect.”

Let’s hope the same Didier Drogba turns up in Turin then!

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