Cech keen to see forward pair of Torres and Drogba work together

Torres left caretaker Blues boss Di Matteo with a real selection headache for the remaining five games of the season after scoring a stunning hat-trick in the 6-1 West London derby thrashing of QPR on Sunday.

With Drogba also in scintillating form, Di Matteo must decide how to line up in the FA Cup final, Champions League final and three crucial Premier League games.

He must make an immediate decision for arguably the most important of the three league games at home to Newcastle tomorrow.

For goalkeeper Cech, the solution is simple.

“I’d start both,” he said. “I believe it is possible but I don’t know whether it would be done or if it would work. I am sure one day it will happen and there will be goals.”

That view is in defiance of conventional wisdom, which has long held Torres and Drogba do not work as a partnership.

Former manager Carlo Ancelotti quickly abandoned any attempt to start them in tandem, doing so just four times before being sacked at the end of last season. Andre Villas-Boas was just as reluctant, with Torres and Drogba in the same XI on just one occasion.

Di Matteo insisted at the weekend that both strikers could play together, pointing out they had done so plenty of times – although he has yet to start both of them together.

Playing a twin strikeforce would involve abandoning Di Matteo’s preferred 4-2-3-1 formation, and although he could fit Torres in on the right, the Spaniard proved against QPR he much prefers to be the attacking spearhead.

Cech began the mind games ahead of tomorrow’s game by pointing out the Magpies’ players were in uncharted territory.

He said: “I think our greater experience will be really important on Wednesday because Newcastle are in a position they haven’t been in for a long time, only once maybe, and we have been there many times.”