Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has backed Fernando Torres to be the difference in their crucial run of fixtures.
Reds star believes striker can be difference
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has backed Fernando Torres to be the difference in their crucial run of fixtures.
The Reds face Manchester United this weekend before taking on Everton and then Arsenal in three games that could define Liverpool's season.
Torres helped Liverpool to record their seventh win on the spin on Saturday with the winner in the 2-1 victory over Reading.
The Spaniard is in a rich-vein of form and his goal against Reading saw him become the first Liverpool player to net 20 league goals since Robbie Fowler in 1995-96.
Carragher is relishing Liverpool's testing fixture schedule and he believes Torres can help them overcome their rivals.
"Their top defenders will relish showing him what they can do but, let's face it, he's on fire at the moment and he can turn our season," Carragher told
The Mirror.
"It can go two ways for us now. If we win the majority of our big games coming up, then we go on and have a fantastic season. If we don't then it is all doom and gloom again.
"We have five games against our three biggest rivals and they are going to be absolutely massive. But I relish those games, and if you are going to win trophies you have to win them. Nando can do that for us.
"Against United we didn't really make the most of him, he didn't play against Everton and came off injured at half-time against Arsenal. He hasn't really played against them."
