Fernando Torres takes it out of bad luck

For weeks they had been musing on the subject and has not been to see his first goal for Chelsea when I dared, or considered it appropriate, treat the signing of Fernando Torres for the London club. Commented on the day of its official the dilemma that caused its market value, or simply launch the economic vacuum that Roman Abramovich made ​​by taking the services of the then Liverpool icon. 58 million euros that, why deny it, have weighed like a millstone for the Spanish striker if we take into account what was brought to London and the result has been to date.

Said on the eve of the clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid Cup which means we love to talk about figures, numbers, sometimes absurd statistics. If a goalkeeper is required to stop balls and his career has never stopped a penalty, they say. That does not mean that there had actually saving interventions and important, but it is perhaps anecdotal data, why not, you should tell. With the front goes something like: for many open spaces for many assists to give or who are heavily engaged during the ninety minutes that lasts for a party, Mrs. say statistics have more weight than any great performance. And do not set out for a striker is like an agony, like a tunnel end, a bottomless pit. A marathon whose only goal is to see the ball go.

For the particular agony Torres lasted 903 minutes. Someone has told and, by extension, you must tell the tale. His case does not go unnoticed by the media noise which caused his arrival at Chelsea. He did so with a mutual need: getting titles. How? Theoretically with the help of his goals. But the passage of time has opened up many debates, especially as Chelsea have been eliminated from the Champions League and continental competitions such as where it is assumed that players with the path of Torres, whose importance in the computer 'blue' had not been that if the financial wastage has not been wasted, should take a team to new heights. However, in the quarter-final against Manchester failed. Or what is the same, did not score. And in London the sadness and anger pointed out, among others, the limited effectiveness of '9 '.

Now Torres has shaken off the bad luck. He has done, of course, scoring. Hundred-odd minutes later, against West Ham and Chelsea a victory that is less with Manchester United at Everton. It was the Champions League, comes to the Premier League and land the coveted late goals in a soccer player he still has many evenings of glory at Stamford Bridge to justify a transfer fee, for many, still seems excessive.

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