The stats prove Torres has been better when he started, than coming off the bench. Someone posted the article from whoscored.com a while ago. And yeah he did have streaks of matches, but not like Sturridge had. Like i said already, Drogba obviously deserved to start over him, but Sturridge in the first half of the season had more or less no competition for his place. And this is what will happen with Torres if we don't sign another striker this summer, and we will all see how he does.