The Liverpool forward reached the half century mark for his club in the Premier League in Sunday’s impressive win over Aston Villa at Anfield. The Spaniard, who joined the Reds from his boyhood club in the summer of 2007, made his league debut on August 11 for Liverpool at Villa Park versus the Lions. Since featuring in the 2-1 win over Aston Villa on the opening day of the last season, Torres has hit 33 goals, all in open play, in 50 appearances.

Chelsea were the striker’s first victim on the way to establishing a new Premier League record. Sixteen minutes into his home debut, Fernando Torres raced onto a pass from Steven Gerrard, sprinted past Chelsea defender Ben Haim, before beating the Blues keeper at the far-post.

The strike versus the Londoners at Anfield was the forward’s first of 24 league goals in his first year on Merseyside. A solitary goal on the last day of the season at White Hart Lane.

took Fernando’s goal tally to 24 in his first campaign in the Premier League; one strike past the previous record held by Ruud Van Nistelrooy- as the striker with the highest goal tally in a debut season in the Premier League.

During his first half-century for Liverpool, Fernando also became the first player in 60 years to score back-to-back hat-tricks at Anfield; hitting three past Boro and another treble past West Ham.

Fernando Torres came close to breaking a 103-year-old club record Liverpool scoring record in his first 50 games for the Reds. The Spaniard’s 33 goals in 50 games were just two short of Jack Parkinson’s record from way back in 1906 when the forward scored 35 goals in his first 50 league matches. The 25 year old forward’s achievement however still enters the Anfield record book as the best goal return at the club for 52 years.


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