Although he's been playing well and his work rate cannot be faulted, the one area you expect a £20m striker to perform is in front of the goal. Whilst not taking the amount of time that Peter Crouch did to notch up his first goal for the club, I've been surprised at the lack of comment made in the press about his lack of goals.

That said, he looked every bit the part as he took advantage of West Brom's defence for his 2 goals on Saturday. Hopefully this will spur him on and he'll be able to take some of the goal scoring duties from Torres.

Once again, Rafa Benitez showed little concern for bringing off a player on a hat-trick, despite the team looking comfortable (how often has he done this?) The roar that went up around the ground has Torres came on shows the level to which the crowd missed 'El Nino', but the rest of the team can be proud that despite his absence we're still going toe-to-toe with Chelsea at the top of the league!