Torres has found his body language under ever more intense scrutiny, his commitment to Anfield questioned and his manager, Roy Hodgson, forced to contend that the player was suffering from the "vilification" he received during the World Cup after starting the campaign looking a shadow of his former self.
Many of those doubts will have been erased by his winning goal against Blackburn on Sunday – just his second of the season – but while Reina admits both Torres and his international strike partner, David Villa, appear to be suffering from a post-World Cup malaise, he believes his troubles say more about how poorly Liverpool have played than the striker himself.