Villas-Boas willing to omit big names

Andre Villas-Boas has admitted he would drop Frank Lampard and Fernando Torres from his Chelsea side if it was in the team's interests to do so.
But Blues boss Villas-Boas insisted it would take far more than the pair losing their international places for him to consider axing them from his star-studded line-up. Lampard was dropped for a competitive England match for the first time in four years when he was left out of the starting side for last Friday's UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier in Bulgaria.

And Torres' career arguably hit a new low four days later when he did not even make the bench for Spain's thrashing of Liechtenstein. However, Villas-Boas launched yet another passionate defence of £50million man Torres, who has now scored just once in 27 games for club and country.
But the Portuguese insisted he was not guilty of blind faith and he knew at what point he would need to get tough. "The moment when it compromises the running of the team, I think it has to come to an end, which is fair enough," said Villas-Boas, who also insisted he would not be afraid to drop Lampard, adding: "I have no problems of that kind."
Lampard was recalled by England for Tuesday's Wembley win over Wales, although his performance did little to suggest his best days were not behind him. The 33-year-old, who admitted he had not started the season well, arguably has never fully recovered from a three-and-a-half month injury lay-off last term.
But Villas-Boas said: "Lampard's an extremely fit player. I think as a player, he feels well. He feels he can compete with the others. With this kind of competition that he has at Chelsea, you've seen him selected three times straight away in the first Premier League games. For us, at moment, he's up at the top."