Fernando Torres Milestone

In Spain national team, Fernando Torres is still in the shadow of his striking-partnership, David Villa. Villa has found the back of the net 35 times in just 54 outings, meanwhile Fernando Torres has just managed 23 goals in 71 appearances. Anyway I have to admit that Torres is really a monster at Liverpool. He is obviously the Anfield hero.

29th December 2009 was an important date for both Liverpool and their talismanic striker, Fernando Torres. Liverpool snatched a hard-fought 0-1 victory at Aston Villa's expense. The Reds defeated the host team, thanks to the last-minute goal by the Liverpool number 9. Stephen Warnock failed to clear and the ball fortuitously fell into the path of Torres, who raced clear and clinically found the far corner to seal victory.

With this goal, Torres had just scored his 50th Premier League goals. And he's broken another record. Torres became the fastest Liverpool player to reach 50 English Premier League goals. He needed only 72 games to complete this first milestone of 50 goals. Incredible, it's almost like he's gonna score twice every three games.

He has beaten the Liverpool's legends for this award. The likes of Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen needed longer time to reach 50 Premier League goals. They needed 84, 88 and 98 games respectively. Moreover, Torres is second best only to Andy Cole (65), Alan Shearer (66) and Ruud van Nistelrooy (68) in the overall Premier League record-breakers.

This is truly a remarkable achievement. Congratulations for Fernando Torres.