Torres has only scored twice this season before the visit of Chelsea at Anfield.
But the Spain striker was back to his best predator, set off a fresh finish by Dirk Kuyt must go 11 minutes and then curled a brilliant second past Petr Cech from the edge of the penalty just before half time.
These two mortal condemned Chelsea to stop a second league defeat this season and Carlo Ancelotti has left the league leaders to just two points ahead of second-placed Manchester United.
Liverpool’s victory extended its recent surge of four consecutive victories in all competitions and lifted Roy Hodgson’s team in mid-table.
It was always destined to be difficult, after going two goals behind Liverpool.
Torres has played well and scored two fantastic goals.
The Gunners did not provide enough of a threat of an attack despite their domination of long periods of detention and a miserable afternoon was summed up by the dismissal of Laurent Koscielny in stoppage time.
"It was a great disappointment because our performance was not good enough," said Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger.
West Bromwich Albion. Balotelli netted twice in six minutes at the Hawthorns in the first half before he made a rapid transformation of the hero the villain with a straight red card in the second half of reckless self
Mulumbu Youssouf, who was also later expelled.
Cities lost their last three games, but were more threatening with the return of Carlos Tevez and his cross the ball Balotelli brought on line in minute 20. Balotelli ruthlessly exploited Albion suspect defense Gabriel Tamas six minutes later to beat Scott Carson, with a low shot.
The referee should not have given a red card, absolutely not.
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