Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has backed Fernando Torres to get over his open goal miss against Manchester United, and has stated his importance to the Stamford Bridge team.
Torres managed to score his first goal of the season in the 3-1 defeat to Sir Alex Ferguson’s men, but unexplainably could not capitalise on an open goal, and has received criticism in the media.
Despite this, Cech is focussing on the positives from the Spaniards performances, and believes Torres is improving.
“I keep saying the same thing – I can see every time the guy is improving,” the keeper stated.
“At Stoke he had a brilliant game, while against Leverkusen he didn’t score a goal but created both of them.
“On Sunday, he created a huge chance for Ramires or Daniel Sturridge. But it was a pity Ramires slid in as it was difficult for him to finish it and allowed the keeper to make a save, whereas Daniel would have just tapped it in. So it was unlucky.
“Then he scored a great goal, and got himself another opportunity. What everybody needs to remember is just how well he played for the whole game and the great goal he did score.
“He created a lot and his movement was there. You can see it. I’m not worried about it. He will score lots of goals,” the Czech Republic international continued.
Cech feels that the contribution to the team that Torres is making is very important, even if he has not been getting the goals.
“Everybody counts the goals a striker gets. It’s always like that.
“But if you see, for example, Dimitar Berbatov got to United not only because he scores goals but because he created 30 every season for Tottenham.
“With Fernando it’s the same. He scores goals, as he showed, but he can create them as well. Ideally, of course, you want your strikers to score. But if they can create two goals every game, then who cares how many they score?” he concluded.
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