Since then, however, he has scored only one league goal – against Norwich on 6 October – and he was left out by former Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo in what turned out to be the Italian’s last game in charge, Tuesday’s Champions League drubbing by Juventus.

Sunday’s game at Stamford Bridge was a big one for new Blues boss Rafael Benitez.

But it was also an important one for the 28-year-old Spanish striker, who still has much to do to live up to his £50m price tag.
STRUGGLING AS A SINGLE STRIKER

It is Torres’s movement that has made him such a handful when he has played as a lone frontman in the past, but against City he was completely flat.

Chelsea were quite direct at times and some of the long balls up to him were not the best, and definitely not the sort he thrives on – those passes which let him pick up possession in the areas between the full-back and centre-back where he can be so effective.

Even so, he was beaten almost every time in the air by City’s centre-backs, Vincent Kompany and Matija Nastasic, who out-muscled him on every occasion.

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