The ‘Liga’ Championship gets to its middle and the balance, fulfilled the first round, with a possitive different to Fernando Torres and Atletico Madrid. The forward leads the squad has obtained the best numbers of the red and white club has registered from the season 95-96, that one that achieved the ‘double’ winning League and Cup, and he heads the goalscorers list of the team with seven goals in his count. The 35 points place to the Atleti on January at the fifth place of the classification three points the leader and 13 goals became him –with Getafe team- at the less scored team of the Championship.

Fernando Torres is an essential piece at the squad of Javier Aguirre. The number ‘9’ has been leader in 18 of the 19 matches played, losing just the match against Athletic of Bilbao at San Mames for a punishment. In 14 of these matches Torres has played the complete match as opposed to four in which has been substituded. The results obtained with Torres on the field are favourable with nine victories and five ties and four defeats.

At his goal count figures seven goals scored against Racing, Recreativo, Villarreal, Levante, Espanyol and Celta, this one suffered a double entry. Five of this seven goals he has scored were thanks to shots with the right foot, while in two occasion he has scored with a header. The good forward shot is significant, since the 44 shots he executed during the first round, were 28 between the three post a total of 63%.

Fernando Torres has standed out not just as goalscorer, also as an assistant making three passes of goal. The number ‘9’ keeps being one of the players more difficult to ‘stop’ for the defences, since he heads the list of players of the League that has recieved a lot of fouls per minute -22,68-, while he just has made 39, a little bit more that the half of the 67 he has suffered.


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