Sunday, December 26, 2010

Hodgson Hopes Fernando Torres Can Improve Liverpool's Away Form

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson is hoping that striker Fernando Torres can help the team set right their travel sickness.

The Reds have been woeful on their trips away from Merseyside this term, since they have won only one of their nine league games to date. And six defeats among them has seen the side having to remain in mid-table as the halfway point in the season approaches.

Now the former Fulham manager is hoping that he is not faced with a sight he so often faced at his former club - the away day hoodoo - and is counting on the Spaniard to deliver at Blackpool.

"The important thing is your players keep getting in the right positions and if we can keep getting Fernando into areas where he can score goals he will score goals," Hodgson told reporters.

"We have had our chances, we have created the danger but we have not converted as many of those occasions as we should have done and it is something we have worked on.

"The players are very aware of it because we do have goalscorers in the team and have one of Europe's best in Fernando Torres.

"He does not need reminding of when he misses a goal chance because I bet he can remember every chance he has missed over the last three to four months because they stay with people."

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