Problem solved? Fine-tuned Torres is purring for Di Matteo

Roberto Di Matteo  have gone some way to solving a problem that has been nagging away at the club since January last year.

The problem has been Fernando Torres and the fact that a striker who cost £50million has been a  million miles off the player he was at Liverpool. 

He had lost his mojo as well as his place in the Spain squad, the latter of which marked a quite extraordinary decline.In Di Matteo, though, Torres has found a believer — someone who was offering him support when he was the assistant to Villas-Boas. Every week Di Matteo would make a point of talking to Torres, counselling him, if you like, one to one.

Now Di Matteo is in charge as the interim first-team coach, it seems Torres might be trying to repay him. As well as that superb performance against Benfica there were the two goals against Leicester and another determined display against  Manchester City.
According to one Chelsea source, Di Matteo is trying to manage with ‘calm and logic’.