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Reina pledges Torres support | Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has publicly thrown his support behind Reds striker Fernando Torres after the Spaniard netted the winner against Blackburn at the weekend. Torres, like Liverpool, has had an extremely slow start to the season, but many people around Anfield are hoping that his goal against Blackburn can jump start his season.
“All the strikers are about the goals,” said Reina. “They want to score them and they want to score the winners like Fernando did against Blackburn. I think he can build up now to what he was like of old. What has happened to him is more or less what has happened to Villa in Barcelona.
“They are both great players but when strikers are not scoring people are always disappointed in them. It’s not fair. I don’t think we have been assisting him like we should, particularly in the last few weeks. He has not been able to do anything at all.
“We know he is the type of player that can win a game just like that but we can’t expect him to keep doing it on his own. We have to feed him in. That’s the point.”
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard reiterated the claims of his goalkeeper while also singling Joe Cole out for praise.
“It was great to see Fernando get on the scoresheet and Joe [Cole] set him up,” said Gerrard.
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