The biggest deal that the Premier League has seen for years was Fernando Torres’ £50 million move in January from Liverpool to Chelsea. With the Premier League champions looking to reinvigorate their title hopes, they turned to the Spaniard and David Luiz to do just that. With Didier Drogba past his best and Nicolas Anelka struggling to find form consistently, Fernando Torres was seen as the man to fire the Blues back to the top of the Premier League table, but it hasn’t quite worked out like that.
In the half dozen or so games that Torres has played since he moved to Stamford Bridge he has failed to find the back of the net for Chelsea. While manager Carlo Ancelotti has insisted that he’s happy with the striker, it must be concerning the Italian that Torres has yet to score in a Chelsea shirt. The Spaniard has continued his patchy form that he displayed in the first half of the season for Liverpool and back in the 2010 World Cup for Spain and is nowhere near reaching the heights he’s previously set for himself.
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With Fernando Torres’ goal drought continuing, the Spaniard is 12/1 for a Premier League blank for Chelsea. Torres is 12/1 with bet365 not to score a Premier League goal for Chelsea this season and even money to notch less than four goals. bet365 spokesman Steve Freeth says “Ancelotti is talking about it being just a matter of time before Torres ends his drought, but the only requests we’re getting are for the Spaniard’s barren run to continue until the end of the season.”
So is it unthinkable that Torres won’t find the net again this season? The longer his goal drought continues the harder it will become to score and the more pressure that he will be under. However, strikers of his quality are sure to break their duck eventually, just look at Tottenham star Jermain Defoe’s brace against Wolves last weekend. As soon as the first goal comes he might just hit his stride and have a fantastic end to the season, and it still isn’t out of the question that he can’t fire Chelsea to the Premier League title – you can get odds of 7/1 on that!
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