Torres hungry for more says Rafa

Rafael Benitez says Fernando Torres' appetite to improve his game has made him such a success in the Premier League.

Spanish striker Torres scored twice for Liverpool in their 3-2 win at West Ham United on Saturday and Benitez says his frontman's headed winner was telling of the progress he has made.
 
As well as hailing the former Atletico Madrid star, who the LIverpool manager says has overcome English defences as quickly as he has mastered the language, Benitez believes the players supporting Torres are equally as important to their title challenge this season.
 
But it was talk of two-goal Torres that dominated Benitez's post match press conference with the boss saying: "We had some names of players and we knew we needed his type of player for England, someone who was young and keen to learn and Torres was the perfect answer.
 
"Clearly he wanted to come here, he wanted to improve he wanted to play in a top side. Atletico Madrid was his old club, he was there for years but now we have him at out club and he is fantastic.
 
"Speaking the language was not a problem because we were signing some Spanish players like Reina and others like Alonso.
 
"When you talk to him you realise what dreams he has and how hard he was working for them.
 
"In Spain Torres was very good in the air, but the difference here in England is that all the centre backs are all 1.92 metres so it is not easy to win in the air.
 
"He is good in the air but of course it depends on the quality of the crosses. But if the delivery is good then he will score goals.
 
"He clearly has pace and mobility and he can use these things. He has to improve some things but I am not going to say what they are.
 
"He is good with his back to goal, not easy for a striker. This week we were talking about what he was doing before and his last two games against Debrecen and this one he has been very good with his movement.
 
"He was getting into very good positions so he was always a threat for the defence."
 
Victory at Upton Park took Liverpool to third in the Premier League table with 12 points from six games with substitute Ryan Babel's cross providing the perfect assist for Torres to head the winning goal in the 75th minute.
 
Captain Steven Gerrard's header allowed Dirk Kuyt to poke in the visitors' second and Benayoun troubled the home defence on countless occasions in the second half particular.
 
And Benitez says these are examples of the threat Liverpool pose from all areas of the pitch, not just from their Spanish striker. He added: "Kuyt, Gerrard and Torres they understand each other very well and when you have that quality like Gerrard he can always find Torres in a very good position to score.
 
"That is part of our success and if Kuyt, Yossi and the others score then it will make it more difficult still to defend against.
 
"Of course all strikers want to score goals and Torres is no different he is one of those players who score a lot but he wants more.
 
"He wants to be an important player for Liverpool, he has the mentality and the strength that you need if you want to improve.
 
"It is too early to talk about him winning the Golden Boot this season, he has to keep playing at this level and we will see what happens.
 
"Our Spanish players were in the Confederations Cup and the other players were training for 19 days before they came back to train with us late.
 
"We had to be careful with them and Torres was top scorer. We were pushing him a bit but now with all the prevention work with the physio we are taking care of him."