Torres must move better

Fernando Torres London - Arabstoday Fernando Torres, the most expensive footballer in British football history, has now played more than 1,100 minutes of football without scoring. But if it is possible for a centre-forward on a 19-game barren run to be optimistic about anything, Torres ought to relish this afternoon’s game against Manchester United. The Spaniard has scored four times against United since moving to England in 2007; no player has a better record against them during the same period. Andre Villas-Boas, the Chelsea manager, says Torres’s current problems are not psychological, but physical - specifically his “movement” within the more expansive style Villas-Boas is trying to implement. He said: “We speak about it. No one knows more than him the responsibility he has. He is trying to improve his movement. Off the field, his mentality is that he is ready and knows what he has to do. "On the field and on the training ground we try and work on his movement. That’s the only thing we can do and we have been doing it for quite some time. I think eventually a goal will trigger it all, but we have to wait and see.” Villas-Boas said there was no prospect of Chelsea adapting their style to suit Torres. “We don’t play to suit anybody’s game,” he said. “I think there is an understanding of a new way of playing at Chelsea which is a dominant way, where you have more initiative on the ball and less space in behind [defences]. "This changes the nature of a player’s behaviour and movement, and you have to adapt, which is what we are trying to get."