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FERNANDO TORRES admitted his overwhelming relief after finally ending the most embarrassing goal drought in football. And the �50million striker seemed to take a shot at sacked Andre Villas-Boas by saying he now has a boss in Roberto Di Matteo who believes in him. Torres lifted the roof off Stamford Bridge when he scored his first goal in 25 hours and 41 minutes of play. And the �180,000-a-week hitman struck again just 18 minutes later as Chelsea crushed Leicester 5-2 in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Torres, 28 tomorrow, confessed: "I needed those goals and I've been working so hard to get them. "This season I have been playing at a very good level but I was not scoring goals. "The job of the strikers is scoring goals and if you don't do that people think you are playing bad. The main thing for me has been the support of the people. "They are always with me and now I feel the confidence of the manager as well. It's a good time for me and a good time for Chelsea. "We are in the last two months of our season and our most important games are still to come." Torres' last goal was his second in a 5-0 Champions League stroll against Belgian minnows Genk way back on October 19. That made it 151 days before the former Liverpool striker finally found the net again to set up Chelsea's fourth straight win under interim boss Di Matteo. Torres added: "In the last month the team is much better than before. "We are more committed and in the last two or three games we have shown we want to finish our season in a good way. "I am also feeling much better. I was playing good but I wasn't scoring the goals. "But I could find the back of the net today so it was a good day for me. My first goal was good team play, a good counter-attack and a good finish. "The second was a header from a corner. "The main thing is that we are creating more chances than before, so we will score more goals. "Maybe we were a bit too relaxed at the end of this match and conceded two goals, but we are doing well defensively. "And if we create as many chances as we did today it will be difficult for anyone to beat Chelsea." Torres could still find himself back on the substitutes' bench for Wednesday night's crucial Premier League trip to second-placed Manchester City. But that did not diminish Di Matteo's pleasure at finally succeeding where former boss AVB failed by getting the Spaniard back on the scoresheet � and booking a Wembley semi-final date against Tottenham or Bolton. Di Matteo said: "I don't want to take the credit. Fernando's effort and work-rate are what have done it. "Not only is he a very good player, but a very good guy. "I've been speaking individually to all the players, including him, and the whole team, the club and all the fans are all pleased for Fernando. "And obviously Fernando looked happy. "We are happy because he works so hard. He's a great team player and when you work hard in life you get rewarded. "Hopefully his confidence if going to be very high now. "I didn't actually mind when he didn't score because as long as we win as a team that is all that matters. "We're just happy we've managed to overcome this hurdle. "I'm very pleased with both the performance and the result. "It was a wonderful team effort and the scoreline reflected the performance. "We wanted to get to the next round and we have done that very well. "But we have no time to enjoy this win because we play Manchester City on Wednesday night and we have to start focusing on that game now. "But every game that we have won so far has given the players as a whole a little more confidence. "Every win cements that. "We are scoring goals and we seem to be more solid as a team." Leicester boss Nigel Pearson admitted his Championship side were never in contention after goals by Gary Cahill and Salomon Kalou � set up by Torres � inside the opening 18 minutes. Pearson said: "We gave ourselves a mountain to climb. "Going into the game I think we always knew it would be important to make Chelsea work hard to be in front � and we didn't do that. "It was always going to be a tough ask but we had to keep things tighter than we did. "To concede from two set-plays is particularly disappointing."