Chapter 5: Tanhua Striker
"Fernando Torres, he's a Spanish hero, he's the best. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 "Blackburn fans are showing their love for Torres with songs like this.
It was the Spanish striker who, on this night, once again single-handedly won for the Blue Devils!
After Ronaldo left, Arthur once arrogantly said, "There is a candidate who can replace Ronaldo in Black's team", and this night Torres proved with practical actions that this is not a wild statement, but a fact that really happened in front of Blackburn fans.
At a time when the team needed a win and a goal the most, Torres was the savior of that Blackburn!
"Torres is here to conquer the Premier League, not to make money." Carlo Ancelotti said this before the game about Torres.
Although Torres performed well last season, the Spanish striker, who received the first £120,000 weekly salary in the Premier League at the time, was scolded by many people for taking too much money.
In the season of Ronaldo's departure, after 16 rounds of the league, Torres is full of firepower and has the potential to conquer the Premier League.
Fernando Torres has been in great form lately, and he is the last player Ancelotti dares to rotate, even the fourth captain of the Blue Devils, Drogba, who is in his prime, has been forced to the bench by him, and among the substitutes behind Torres are former superstars like Owen, potential supernovas like Balotelli and Carroll.
And Torres did not live up to Ancelotti's trust, facing West Brom in this game, the teammates behind Torres rotated again, and Bentley, Duff and others entered the starting lineup.
But no matter how his teammates changed, Torres was still as fierce as a tiger. Just five minutes into the game, Bentley crossed in at high speed from the right and Torres headed home with ease at the back post.
Judging from this goal, as soon as the connoisseur made a shot, he knew if there was one, and Torres opened his arms to make a celebratory gesture at the moment of the header, which shows that he feels very good.
Torres' second goal of the game was a classic!
In the 62nd minute, Torres dribbled the ball on the left side of the penalty area, at this time West Bromwich Albion's two defenders had formed a defensive momentum, but only to see the Spanish tower hard to break through the "ghost gate", knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, biased towards the tiger mountain, he was in a very small space, waded through the two defenders, and then faced the two defenders who surrounded him, decisively volleyed into the far corner, and the West Brom goalkeeper could only look at the ball and sigh.
Torres's 1v4 goal was domineering and unstoppable, as if the Buddha blocked the Buddha, and the god blocked the God.
Lineker, who was in charge of broadcasting the game, raved about: "Fernando Torres is in really good form, West Bromwich Albion defenders can't do anything about him. ”
With two goals, Torres has now scored 14 goals in 16 league appearances this season, placing him at the top of the scorers' charts.
This game was also Torres' 50th league game for Blackburn, and he scored 36 goals in his first 50 games with Blackburn, an average of 0.72 goals per game, no one in history has done better than Torres, and the Spanish striker has no previous Premier League experience, which shows that Torres has achieved such a result, which is even more commendable.
After a brief adaptation to the Premier League, Torres immediately switched to supergod mode.
In addition to his 14 league goals this season, Torres has scored 18 goals in all competitions for Blackburn, including 11 in his last eight games.
What is this concept?
For example, last season's top scorers for United were Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney, both of whom scored 22 goals, Rooney played 40 games and Berbatov played 47 games, while Torres easily scored 18 goals in 22 games this season, almost three months to reach that height.
Carlo Ancelotti has said that Torres can reach Chelsea's top Shevchenko's goal tally in two years in half a year, which is an exaggeration, but it is not an exaggeration, in the more than a year since joining Blackburn, Torres has scored a total of 47 goals in 71 official games, an average of 0.66 goals per game, worthy of a natural winner.
Even more surprising was Torres' attendance this season. Blackburn Rovers have had a double game in a row in the last three weeks, and Torres has not missed any of those starts. In Blackburn's side, Fernando Torres had the highest attendance in attack and only played slightly less than Petr Cech as goalkeeper.
Torres has previously publicly complained that he is indeed a little tired, and Ancelotti is well aware of this, but in the current situation at Blackburn, can Torres rotate?
No way!
It's not that Owen and Carroll haven't had their chances, but it's really embarrassing to be old and young, and Balotelli is good, but he was obviously the better choice for Torres and Drogba before, and he still has a clear gap with Torres now.
Blackburn Rovers are currently counting on Torres to be the savior of the team, and "Torres" did not disappoint, the latest wave of three consecutive wins, almost all Torres carried the whole team forward, and his role in the game is not only to score, his positive attitude is what Ancelotti hopes to convey to the whole team.
It is worth mentioning that Torres also received a yellow card when he grabbed a ball with a West Brom defender in this game.
Speaking after the game, Torres said: "It was a difficult game. But to win in this format, it's perfect, it's a perfect day. ”
In Blackburn's most difficult moment, it was Torres who carried the team out of the predicament.
"Fernando Torres, he's a Spanish hero, he's the best."
Who else but Torres can make Blackburn fans sing such praises?
Torres's outstanding performance has not only been recognized by Blackburn Rovers and Premier League fans, but also in individual awards.
At 17:50 on December 6, the 2009 European Ballon d'Or Awards ceremony was held on the French TV TV "TV Football" program, Messi became the winner without suspense, Ronaldo ranked second, Torres ranked third with 179 points, overwhelming the previous favorites Xavi and Ibrahimovic into the top three.
It seems that the success of the Golden Globe is not, as he himself describes, "as hard as climbing Mount Everest to touch the sky." ”
As the Premier League's top scorer, Torres has been shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or for the fourth time, but did not score a point in the first two times, and entered the top 10 in the third year, and this year Toefl scored in Blackburn Rovers like chopping melons and vegetables, plus Arthur's behind-the-scenes efforts, with 179 points in one fell swoop, becoming one of the four "elites" who scored more than 100 points.
As early as July this year, the French newspaper "Team" announced the five major candidates for the Ballon d'Or, Torres and Ronaldo, Deco and Ibrahimovic jointly "encircled" Messi. In the end, except for Xavi becoming a "dark horse" and squeezing Deco to sixth, the "Team Newspaper" is very accurate in its prediction of direction.
Torres' transfer to Blackburn is a win-win situation, playing in the first team of Atletico Madrid for 6 years, although he has been occasionally nominated for the two major footballer of the year by constantly scoring goals, but without exception he has become a trick, and not being able to hand over the business card of the giants also means that he can only be a spectator.
This time, Blackburn Golden Boy was able to get rid of a group of stars and rank among the top three, which is not only the accumulation of his personal goals, from quantitative to qualitative change, but also a reflection of the strength of the Premier League.
In terms of league performances, the Spanish striker, who joined Blackburn Rovers for just one year, scored 33 goals in all competitions in 2009. In the 24 games he scored, Blackburn had a brilliant record of 19 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, and won the double, which were all looked at by the judges.
It is worth noting that since the restructuring of the Premier League, the Premier League stars who have won the Ballon d'Or have all come from Blackburn, Ibrahimovic in 2004, Frank Lampard in 2005, Cannavaro in 2006 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008.
In the six years since 2004, Blackburn has won four of the six Golden Globes and has become a star-within-a-star.
Before 2004, English football was not the stage of the Ballon d'Or, and since the inception of the Premier League, except for 2001, the Premier League's elite have only witnessed the other two major leagues taking turns to dominate.
However, the Premier League's dominance in Europe in recent seasons has made it impossible for the Ballon d'Or to ignore the achievements of the Premier League's stars. The league title, Blackburn, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, also proves the gold content of the Premier League champion, driving the league bonus points to rise when the Ballon d'Or is selected. Torres was naturally the beneficiary.
Fernando Torres won the Ballon d'Or this year, so is there any hope of going one step further next year, or even holding the trophy directly?
Arthur thinks it's highly likely!
Because Mourinho helped Inter Milan win the treble a year earlier than the previous one, and entered Real Madrid a year ahead of schedule, so this season Real Madrid and Barcelona launched a-for-tat battle in the league, although Messi and Ronaldo played well, but in the case of the two teams suppressing each other, the performance of the two teams that consumed too much energy in the league in the Champions League and the Copa del Rey can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.
Ancelotti's Blackburn Rovers are outstanding in the league, the Champions League is also booming, and Arthur also knows that in next year's Ballon d'Or selection, Torres has a huge advantage that Messi and Ronaldo do don't have - the World Cup!
In Arthur's previous life, Spain won the World Cup in South Africa with an invincible appearance, and in a major year like this, the national team's record will largely influence the judges' opinion.
Although the previous Torres was injured for four months and rushed to the squad after recovering from the injury, resulting in an average overall performance in the World Cup, winning the Hercules Cup made Torres earn enough eyeballs.
If he has a good performance in next year's World Cup, the judges are also people, so they will naturally look up to him, coupled with Blackburn's dazzling performance, maybe the Golden Ball will be won by Torres in the next few years. Messi and Ronaldo wrote. (To be continued.) )