CHELSEA goalkeeper Petr Cech has sung the praises of striker Fernando Torres following his predatory return to form at Old Trafford.
Torres scored one goal for Chelsea, and set up what could so easily have been another, before suffering a miss which only the unkind or deeply biased would claim characterised his performance.
Cech said: "I can see every time the guy is improving. At Stoke he had a brilliant match and was unlucky not to score.
"The last match he created both goals against Bayer Leverkusen and against United he created a huge chance for Ramires in the first half, which if he'd left for Daniel Sturridge, it would have been a simple tap-in.
"He also scored a great goal and then got himself another opportunity and unfortunately I don't know what happened. But I am not worried about it, he will score goals.”
Cech said the full performance of the player was more important than the number of goals he scores, and that a striker like Torres should be judged on more than just that.
"Everybody is counting goals with strikers and it is always like that,” he said. “But if you see Dimitar Berbatov, for example, he got into United not only because he can score goals, but because he also created 30 for Tottenham every season.
"That's why they brought him to United and Torres is doing the same. He scores goals and can create them. Ideally you want your striker to score, but if Torres creates two goals every game then who cares?"
Asked about the open-goal miss that came late in the day at Old Trafford, Cech said: “This is one thing in football that happens and what he can remember is he played really well and scored a great goal.”
