Liverpool right back Alvaro Arbeloa is certain that his team mate Fernando Torres can move past his 33 goals, which he scored last season and make an even bigger mark in the Premier League.

Torres, who joined the Reds last season from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £20million and became the first Liverpool player to score 20 league goals in a single campaign since Robbie Fowler along with breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy's record for Manchester United, for most Premiership goals by a foreign player in their debut season.

Arbeloa who also hails from Spain, disclosed that Torres is confident to cross the 33 goal mark this season.

He told LFC magazine: "Nando's a crazy guy. He is really confident he can build on the total of goals he scored in his first season with us.

"If anyone is going to do it, then Fernando is the man. He wants to improve all the time, and one way for him to do that, the best way, is to score more than 33 goals.

"It seems like an impossible target – it does to me, anyway. But he is super confident that it is achievable.

"He believes he can smash last season's total. I said to him that I thought what he was saying was mad because it was a lot of goals and teams will be preparing to deal with him this season.

"They have been exposed by him and they will be trying to think up ways to prevent the same thing happening again.

"But knowing you have to stop him and actually stopping him are very different things. I don't know if it is possible – we hope not, anyway."