Has Kenny turned Carroll into Liverpool’s Torres?

When Andy Carroll leapt to head past the Chelsea goal in the FA Cup final at Wembley last week – one could sense the entire Liverpool fan-base leap with him.

Hope at last. A winner that is worth the 30-odd million pounds. Then Petr Cech stuck a hand out (like he did to Messi versus Barcelona in the semifinal).

Despite Luis Suarez’s berating of the officials, Kenny Dalglish, Andy Carroll and Liverpool were back to square one – with a striker who cannot score.

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Yesterday Carroll put in a stellar performance against Chelsea. He ran John Terry ragged and may have affected Terry’s chances of going to the Euros by exposing him as an ageing and slow defender.

Yet all that was missing was a goal. Even when Liverpool ran riot, Carroll could not score.

His tally for the season remains embarrassingly below 10. Way below.

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Ironically, also on the pitch was another player, who in December, was locked in a dead heat with Carroll for the title of flop of the season.

Fernando Torres scored 81 times when he played for Liverpool, many of those goals against top opposition and of the highest class. Like a thoroughbred he ran riot.

Now, he has been reduced to a hard-working pack mule. His goals, like Carroll’s are rare appearances.

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In a Liverpool versus Chelsea climax game for the two teams yesterday, one thing was for sure – both clubs need to cash out on strikers who cannot score.

Or on managers who cannot get them to.

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