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BORINI STEPS FORWARD

Posted on: Tue 22 Sep 2009

Chelsea Academy-developed players are expected to see action against Queens Park Rangers and one of those in the frame is Fabio Borini, fresh from his debut at the weekend.

With the Chelsea management indicating a desire to use fresh young players in the Carling Cup, several reserve squad members will dream tonight of debuts against QPR tomorrow (Wednesday). One of their number has already taken that step.

Fabio Borini, the 18-year-old Italian striker who was top scorer for the reserves last season and second highest for the youth team, enjoyed a prolific beginning to this campaign, netting twice in a recent reserve league fixture at Portsmouth and performing well in a succession of training ground friendlies.

Carlo Ancelotti was impressed enough to bring the player on shortly before extended stoppage time began against Spurs on Sunday.

'Straight from the first goal I thought I might come on during the game because I saw Chelsea playing very well and they could score a lot of goals,' Borini says a couple days after his landmark match.

'The team were quite controlling the game and I knew if they could score more then I would probably get the chance to come on in the 10 minutes at the end. I always dreamt to play in the Premier League and it felt really good.

'The difference from the reserves is just the crowd around you and the pressure on you, but I just tried to play as I normally do.'

Borini's normal game is one that has become stronger over the two full seasons he has been at Chelsea, the first one very much a case of settling in. Putting the ball in the net was already a quality.

'Finishing is one of the strongest parts of my game and that is the job of a striker,' he agrees.

'The adaptation I had to make from Italy to here is to become stronger physically and mentally and learn from the top strikers in the club, Anelka and Drogba.

'The feeling was a better last season because I was more confident with the language and it started to get easier, it was like being in Italy apart from staying in digs rather than being at home. I found it really good being here.'

Borini's integration is such that he has found a dress-sense admirer in Joe Cole and for a young man who followed Juventus as a boy and worshipped Filippo Inzaghi and Alessandro Del Piero, there was plenty of excitement when former Juve manager Ancelotti moved to Stamford Bridge in the summer.

'He is a legend of Italian football who won nearly everything at AC Milan and is a good manager for me to improve my football,' Borini says.

'He is always watching us play in the reserves and takes part of our training sessions. At the club they say I look like Inzaghi so probably he saw him in my play and was motivated to get me in the first team squad.

'I am looking for more involvement in the game [against Queens Park Rangers] and hopefully more chances during the season will come.'

For supporters not familiar with the reserve team, assistant first team coach Paul Clement, who has developed Borini in the youth, reserves and now in the first team squad gives a summary of the player.

'Since Fabio has come here he has spent a lot of time working at his game and he is an intelligent player so you will see him making good runs, playing on the shoulder of defenders,' Clement reports.

'He has been really working on the timing of those movements, trying to get in behind defences, that is his strength and he has a good eye for a goal. He is bright tactically and he has merited his chance and we may see a little bit more of him tomorrow.

'Fabio is in a rich vein of form and is scoring regularly. That is the first thing you look for in a striker with everything else after that.'

Dare I say, he very much reminds me of Shevchenko.

At the club they say I look like Inzaghi

I know Inzaghi is not a player that many non-Milan fans like, but if Borini will go on to be our own Inzaghi, then I'd be absolutely thrilled. And I'm talking about scoring goals here. You can say many things about Inzaghi, but he surely knows how to be in the right place at the right time. Do the Milan fans care that many of his goals are tap-ins from close range? I doubt it. Besides, he knows how to score some beauties as well and does them in big matches as well. We could do with a real poacher amongst our ranks and if Borini will be our Inzaghi, it will be great news for us.

I love his last name though. Must be because it reminds me of Bernini, who has made some lovely sculptures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini

I know Inzaghi is not a player that many non-Milan fans like, but if Borini will go on to be our own Inzaghi, then I'd be absolutely thrilled. And I'm talking about scoring goals here. You can say many things about Inzaghi, but he surely knows how to be in the right place at the right time. Do the Milan fans care that many of his goals are tap-ins from close range? I doubt it. Besides, he knows how to score some beauties as well and does them in big matches as well. We could do with a real poacher amongst our ranks and if Borini will be our Inzaghi, it will be great news for us.

I think most football fans appreciate how good Inzaghi is, if Borini can be just 80% of him we'll have a hell of a player on our hands.

I know Inzaghi is not a player that many non-Milan fans like, but if Borini will go on to be our own Inzaghi, then I'd be absolutely thrilled. And I'm talking about scoring goals here. You can say many things about Inzaghi, but he surely knows how to be in the right place at the right time. Do the Milan fans care that many of his goals are tap-ins from close range? I doubt it. Besides, he knows how to score some beauties as well and does them in big matches as well. We could do with a real poacher amongst our ranks and if Borini will be our Inzaghi, it will be great news for us.

inzaghi has always looked a pretty poor footballer to me, but an incredibly gifted natural goal scorer and thats something you cant train into a player. he spends so much time offside it must be pretty frustrating to be a fan of milan at times, but he does score a hell of a lot goals simply by being in the right place at the right time.

If he became anything like Shev or Inzaghi, i'd be more than thrilled

If he became anything like Shev or Inzaghi, i'd be more than thrilled

I hope you mean Sheva before he came to Chelsea

Yes, I mean that Sheva....

I always thought of Inzaghi as an Italian Gary Lineker - a penalty box goal-scorer so after watching Borini make his debut against that second-rate north london outfit, I will be following his career with interest starting against QPha tonight.