Can Fernando Torres revive his form against old club?

Chelsea boss Andre Villa-Boas has backed his under-fire striker Fernando Torres.

The Spaniard has underperformed since his British record £50million move from Liverpool to Chelsea last January.

In fact he is already being considered an expensive flop.

Assists

Villas-Boas told press: “He’s one of the best (with) assists at the club – four or five. He’s assisting people and the team are getting wins out of it. Sometimes we don’t get all the wins we wanted, but we get the goalscoring opportunities for us to win games.”

The Portuguese boss has defended Torres by saying he is helping the team with assists. However for £50million you would expect a striker to be able to score goals as well as work hard. His form isn’t exactly the form of his early Liverpool career.

His form at Liverpool in the last year of his Liverpool career was awful. He looked disinterested and lethargic. Everybody thought it was because his head was turned by interest from Chelsea. By that theory now that he is at Chelsea his form should have recovered.

Mental

Torres seems to have a psychological problem. He revealed earlier this week that there were reasons he left Liverpool that the Reds fans don’t know. That suggests that something is hampering him mentally.

Being a top player is all able being mentally and physically right. Fernando Torres seems to be fighting fit at the moment but has still not found his best form. There is something stopping him from performing to his best level.

Drop

A few years ago Fernando Torres was one of the hottest strikers in Europe. He was reportedly wanted by Real Madrid and Barcelona. Yet all of a sudden he can’t seem to hit a cows backside with banjo. A record of five goals in 30 appearances tell us something is not right in the world of Torres.

He hasn’t became a bad player overnight, yet he doesn’t seem to be back to his best. There was a period earlier in the season when he started looking sharp again.

Old

The Spaniard comes up against his old club on Sunday. He will see this as his chance to prove his doubters wrong and show the Liverpool fans what they have been missing. He has taken a lot of stick from opposition fans and he’s likely to get even more from his former-fans.

They consider him to be a traitor for asking to join Chelsea. However maybe as Torres revealed this week there were reasons that Liverpool fans don’t know for him leaving the club.

Improving

I have to say that this season Fernando Torres has improved greatly from his form of last season. That wasn’t exactly hard though as he became something of a laughing stock last season. Torres just needs a touch of confidence to start scoring goals again.

Even for a striker of Fernando Torres’ class confidence is key to finding the net. A striker without confidence will really struggle to score goals. And goals breed confidence. Its catch 22 for Torres. When he enjoyed a slight purple patch earlier this season you could see he was regaining his confidence.

I’m sure a goal tomorrow against the fans who have goaded him the most will give him a massive confidence boost. I’m sure he would then go on a goalscoring run.

Moving

Fernando Torres was a big hero at Anfield and it’s a shame he left in such a bitter manner. We will never know what really happened. I don’t think Torres has ever got over the move in his mind and its time he puts it to bed.

Everybody needs to move on from the bitterness of the move. Liverpool fans have taken it quite well because the Spaniard has struggled to find form at Stamford Bridge. Torres needs to start to move on and maybe that process can start tomorrow.

Can Fernando Torres regain is best form at Chelsea?