EPL News: Torres informs of squad backing Hodgson, Henderson acts as Sunderland’s cheerleader
Fernando Torres has come out before Liverpool’s next league match and voiced his support for the current Red’s manager, Roy Hodgson. Hodgson has been under tremendous pressure after his team failed to build on their victory over Bolton
and Chelsea. Liverpool are winless in their last two league matches as the Merseyside giants have drawn against Wigan Athletic and lost to Stoke City at the Britannia stadium in their last league match.
Torres told a radio service in Spain, "The squad here trusts in Roy Hodgson, and so do I. I have no problems with the manager at all, he has always trusted in me and that's very important to any footballer. Although he was here a long
time, the Benitez phase at Liverpool is already history. It belongs to the past and now only the present is important to us. You have to look forward, not back. Roy is a very serious coach who in the summer explained to me very clearly what he wanted from
me. But it is not simple to begin a new project with a different coach in a club where it is always required to fight for every competition.”
The Spanish striker who scored two goals against Chelsea and won the FIFA 2010 World Cup in the summer with the Spanish national team went onto say, "You have to adapt to new ways to create a winning team and that is never easy - but the
team is reacting. Not everything has gone well, but if we can put three wins together then I think the team will be back at the right end of the table, and we'll be more relaxed and play better."
In other news, Sunderland’s young midfielder Jordan Henderson has come out in the media and hyped up his team before their match against Everton at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland won their last league match against Chelsea at the Stamford
Bridge by three goals to nil. Henderson was also in the English national team squad which lost in mid-week to France by two goals to one.
The young midfielder said in his recent interview, "We have proved teams can win at Stamford Bridge. They had some big players out, but that didn't matter. You can only beat what's in front of you. The win will give us great confidence
to push on for the season. Anyone can beat anyone on the day; it's just how you play. It's too early to say where we can finish. We need to keep pushing on, keep progressing, but we could finish pretty high up.”
Henderson added, "We have got enough talent and character in the team to go on and do well." Before he took the field with England in mid-week, the Sunderland man said, "You get noticed a little bit, but that's okay. I don't really mind
that. I don't get noticed a lot. Darren Bent and people like that get noticed a lot more than I do. I don't mind it."
The midfielder was expressive of his lifestyle as well as he said, "People have different impressions of footballers with flash cars, but that doesn't mean they are any different to anybody else - they are still human."
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