Fernando Torres back on form in Chelsea's 5-0 victory over Genk!

Fernando Torres looks to be returning to his old self after scoring 2 goals in the Champions League against an injury-plagued Genk team. Chelsea won the game 5-0, with the rest of the goals coming from Raul Meireles, Branislav Ivanovic, and Saloman Kalou. Chelsea utterly overpowered the Belgian side, which could not manage a shot on target in Wednesday's match. The victory puts Chelsea top of Group E with 7 points, 1 point ahead of Bayer Leverkusen, who stands in second with 6 points.
FINAL SCORE: Chelsea 5-0 Genk

Fernando Torres celebrates with Raul Meireles during Wednesday's match.

André Villas-Boas saw the game as an opportunity to give playing time to a few members who do not usually take a spot in the starting 11, including Nicolas Anelka, David Luiz, Alex, Saloman Kalou, Florent Malouda, Paulo Ferriera and Oriol Romeu, with regular starters Juan Mata, Ramires, Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, John Terry, and Daniel Sturridge being given the day off.
Here was the lineup for Wednesday's match (4-3-3):

                 Malouda -------- Torres -------- Anelka

        Lampard (Kalou) ---- Romeu -------- Meireles

Cole (Ferreira) -------- Luiz ------- Ivanovic ---- Bosingwa (Alex)

                                     Cech

Bench: Turnbull, Mata, Mikel, Sturridge.

NOTABLE CHELSEA PLAYERS:
- Fernando Torres: Man of the Match with 2 goals (and very nearly a third and fourth in the 7th and 72nd). Showed all of those naysayers out there that he truly is capable of returning to Liverpool form, and that he still has a wide range of talents that he brings to the table. Overall he had an excellent game.
- Raul Meireles: Played very well and demonstrated his full range of abilities with a goal slotted into the far corner from 24 yards out. Also sent in a lovely cross on which Torres capitalized for the 3rd goal of the night.
- Branislav Ivanovic: Positioned himself very well for Malouda's free kick to beautifully head the ball into the far corner of the net. Played near-flawless defense as well.
- Saloman Kalou: Came on for Lampard in the 68th minute, and positioned himself well to be able to collect the rebound from Torres' shot and slip it past the Genk keeper for goal #5.
- Oriol Romeu: In his first 90-minute game for the Blues he showed good vision and passed well. Seems to be very comfortable in the holding midfield position. Looking forward to his next start.
- Frank Lampard: Ever since the talk of Lampard's quality decline has arisen he's played like a different man. He did very well to link up the defense and the strikers, and assisted Torres' first goal with a lovely through-ball.

MATCH OVERVIEW:
After the whistle, Chelsea came out firing on all cylinders, dominating possession and taking quite a few shots. In the 7th minute, Fernando Torres showed what he was capable of as he took a shot that careened off the post of the opposing net. Just a minute later, Raul Meireles took a pass from Ashley Cole, took a couple steps forward, and, with almost no coverage, laced a beautiful shot into the far corner from 24 yards out to make the score 1-0. 3 minutes later, Torres doubled the score by receiving Frank Lampard's through-pass and curled a shot around the oncoming keeper for his first goal of this year's Champions League. After a somewhat reckless tackle by David Luiz in the 18th which awarded him a yellow card, Torres scores again in the 27th, heading in a lovely ball from Raul Meireles. 15 minutes and quite a few shots later, Chelsea struck again through Branislav Ivanovic's header off of a Malouda free kick. At half time Paulo Ferreira came on for Ashley Cole, and in the 68th Frank Lampard was replaced with Saloman Kalou, who had almost an immediate impact on the score-line. In the 72nd minute, José Bosingwa sent in a lovely cross for Torres, who took a one-timed shot from point-blank range. It was saved by Koteles, the Genk keeper, but Saloman Kalou had positioned himself well to drive home the rebound. After Bosingwa was replaced with Alex in the 78th minute (with Villas-Boas hoping to increase his monetary value, forcing Juventus, who will likely be bidding for him come January, to pay a higher sum for the Brazilian), Chelsea controlled the remainder of the game, and the whistle blew with the score-line reading 5-0 in favour of Chelsea.

MATCH STATISTICS:

                                               Chelsea                       Genk

Ball Possession (%)                   62                               38

Shots (on target)                      26(12)                           5(0)

Corners                                     5                                  4

Crosses                                     23                               16

Fouls Committed                      10                               10

Yellow Cards                             1                                 2

Red Cards                                  0                                 0

Offsides                                     3                                 4

OTHER FIXTURES:

Group A:

Napoli 1-1 Bayern

Man City 2-1 Villareal

Group B:

CSKA Moskva 3-0 Trabzonspor

Lille 0-1 Inter

Group C:

Otelul Galati 0-2 Man United

Basel 0-2 Benfica

Group D:

Real Madrid 4-0 Lyon

Dinamo Zagreb 0-2 Ajax

Group E (Chelsea's Group):

Leverkusen 2-1 Valencia

Group F:

Marseille 0-1 Arsenal

Olympiacos 3-1 Dortmund

Group G:

Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Zenit St. Petersburg

Porto 1-1 APOEL

Group H:

Milan 2-0 BATE

Barcelona 2-0 Pizen

Match highlights.