5 greatest Fernando Torres moments in a Liverpool shirt

Modified Jul 22, 2022 23:49 GMT

He was at his absolute best at Liverpool.

#3 Back-to-back hat-tricks at Anfield (2007-08)

El Nino was playing on a different level in his first season at Liverpool. He scored 24 goals in the league that season, second only to Cristiano Ronaldo. Torres was able to score all kinds of goals. Long rangers, one-on-ones, tap-ins, headers, volleys and more, he could just do any of it.

There aren't many strikers who score any type of goals, but Torres fitted that bill perfectly. He did not take penalties, though. The Spaniard would score in eight consecutive home games in the league, breaking a long-standing record created by Roger Hunt around 40 to 50 years ago.

At the heart of that run were his back-to-back hattricks against Middlesbrough and West Ham United at Anfield. The catalog of goals he scored had it all. Capitalizing on errors, catching keepers out, heading the ball in from the penalty spot and gliding past defenders to coolly slot the ball home.

Fernando Torres was unplayable, even scoring big goals in the Champions League against the likes of Inter Milan and Arsenal around that time.

Edited by Kaushik Das