On 5 April 2016, Torres scored the opening goal of Atl\u00e9tico’s UEFA Champions League quarter-ultimate with Barcelona at Camp Nou, earlier than being despatched off ten minutes later in an eventual 2-1 loss. The final fixture of the month was at Anfield against 19th place Stoke City on 28 April. On 31 March, Madrid concluded the month at home with Rodrygo’s brace sealing a 2-zero victory in opposition to Athletic Bilbao. In February 2017, he scored his 100th league aim in Spanish soccer when he netted a brace towards Legan\u00e9s. Madrid gained 2-zero at Deportivo thanks to another Ronaldo brace on the final matchday of the league. Within the tournament closing, Torres came on as a substitute towards Italy, scoring one aim and helping another, as Spain won a second consecutive European Championship with a 4-0 victory. The under-16s took part within the 2001 UEFA European Beneath-sixteen Championship in May, which additionally they received, with Torres scoring the one goal in the final, as well as finishing because the tournament’s leading scorer, and was also named the player of the tournament.<\/p>\n
In July 2002, he received the 2002 UEFA European Below-19 Championship with the underneath-19 workforce and was again the one goalscorer in the ultimate. Burnley F.C. received a single FA Cup and has been a Premier League or 1st Division winner twice. Real confronted Galatasary again in one other Champions League group clash, this time at residence, with Madrid winning 4-1. Sergio Ramos acquired dismissed near to the half-time break, however a constant Madrid aspect held on with targets from Bale, Di Mar\u00eda, Isco and \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa giving the Spanish giants the victory, along with making certain the Madrid aspect a place within the knockout part of the Champions League. In 2002, these tactics noticed Ben\u00edtez lead Valencia to their first La Liga title in 31 years, successful it by a seven-level margin over second-positioned Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a. On 21 March, he scored his first La Liga goal since his return in the third minute of a 2-zero win towards Getafe. La Liga club Atl\u00e9tico Madrid on loan till the end of the 2015-16 season. The Brazilian membership already knows about how a lot they’ll earn from a switch, based mostly on their 2004 expertise, once they offered Robinho to the Whites for E24 million, a participant that again then had a really similar profile as Neymar’s.<\/p>\n
With this purpose, Torres grew to become the first participant to attain in seven completely different competitions in a single season. Villa to attain Spain’s first purpose of the tournament in the first sport in the group stage towards Russia. Barca opened the score only 20 minutes after the game started with the newly acquired Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic. After appearing as a late substitute in Spain’s first two group games, he began for the deciding recreation in opposition to Portugal. After substitute appearances within the staff’s opening two matches, Torres was named within the starting line-up for the third group match with the crew’s elimination already confirmed. Torres got here on as a 90th-minute substitute on 16 Might 2018 as Atl\u00e9tico beat Marseille 3-0 at Parc Olympique Lyonnais within the 2018 UEFA Europa League Last. He made his farewell in a J1 League match towards Vissel Kobe on 23 August 2019, when he confronted former Spain teammates Andr\u00e9s Iniesta and David Villa. A tough-working striker, he was also identified for his willingness to chase down and put strain on opposing defenders, and was able to playing off his teammates and creating probabilities for different strikers, along with scoring objectives himself; this also noticed him being deployed in a deeper role as a second striker now and again.<\/p>\n