🇧🇪 Romelu Lukaku

[Goemaere 131]

He still has the touch of an elephant.

Touch of an elephant and 4 goals in 250 minutes > touch of an angel and 0 goals in 2200 minutes.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Only problem is, 2 days after his loan lukaku said on belgian television; Chelsea called me at 19Pm to tell me i'm going on loan again.

The program was extra time if i remember correctly. In other words, the board made him say this

False. You can't force a player into saying something he doesn't want to. Proof about what he said on so called 'belgian' television?

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Inb4 someone says the board made lukaku say this

EDIT: OOPS TOO LATE

[ANDRECHO 432]

Touch of an elephant and 4 goals in 250 minutes > touch of an angel and 0 goals in 2200 minutes.

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Only problem is, 2 days after his loan lukaku said on belgian television; Chelsea called me at 19Pm to tell me i'm going on loan again.

The program was extra time if i remember correctly. In other words, the board made him say this

You really hate our board huh?

[hjperdeath 2,226]

You really hate our board huh?

Pretty sure he is here just cause there are Belgian players. there are so many good Belgian fans here, it's harsh for them.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Pretty sure he is here just cause there are Belgian players. there are so many good Belgian fans here, it's harsh for them.

I know exactly what he is..

[sutro 1,026]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

Exactly!

[The Skipper 20,609]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

Spot on Chou.

[didierforever 7,349]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

i watched the whole game and thought he was pretty decent. and rightfully it was mirallas and osman who got subbed early on because they were shambolic. add to that naismith's nothingness and we got an incompetent attack.

barkley was no where to be seen thru out the match and as soon as city scored their first goal, everton simply went awol as a team. lukaku meanwhile was stranded ahead and was left totally alone thruout the match. and yet he was able to hold the ball against lescott and nastastic long enough to let the everton AM's come into play.

lukaku's role was even more clear when kone came in. and they had absolutely no way out for the last 10 minutes.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

16/27 passes.

59% completed passes.

Lost 3 on 3 headed duels, and 2 on 5 take ons.

2 goal attempts, and scored once.

Action area's are even more peculiar -

He's working hard. Martinez will make sure he becomes better by the end of this season.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

i watched the whole game and thought he was pretty decent. and rightfully it was mirallas and osman who got subbed early on because they were shambolic. add to that naismith's nothingness and we got an incompetent attack.

barkley was no where to be seen thru out the match and as soon as city scored their first goal, everton simply went awol as a team. lukaku meanwhile was stranded ahead and was left totally alone thruout the match.

same kind of reasoning fans make with Torres right?

[didierforever 7,349]

same kind of reasoning fans make with Torres right?

so u just took the best thing we have in our team (our AMs) and compared them to naismith, mirallas and barkley. and that too mirallas of today. seems legit!!!

by the way torres fans complain about the "service and final balls" being provided to him. today we saw a mid-table everton team, who got over-run by title challengers man-city to the extreme. and in those matches the opposition striker does get stranded. dont think that EVER happens to us unless we are playing barca or bayern.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

That's why I keep on saying he needs to develop his ball control and passing. If his passing was more than 55% today, then the statistics sites have made mistakes. A lot of times barkley or baines or naysmith passed to lukaku and ran for the return, he passed it away. And his first touch/ ball control let him down a lot today.

He needs to train more with the ball than the physical aspect of his game(gym)

[hjperdeath 2,226]

so u just took the best thing we have in our team (our AMs) and compared them to naismith, mirallas and barkley. and that too mirallas of today. seems legit!!!

by the way torres fans complain about the "service and final balls" being provided to him. today we saw a mid-table everton team, who got over-run by title challengers man-city to the extreme. and in those matches the opposition striker does get stranded. dont think that EVER happens to us unless we are playing barca or bayern.

I forgot to bold the part. have done it now. A lot of people also say that the trio behind the striker plays way too forward and combines way too much to bring the striker into play. Another way to look at it.

[Miguelito 459]

Only problem is, 2 days after his loan lukaku said on belgian television; Chelsea called me at 19Pm to tell me i'm going on loan again.

The program was extra time if i remember correctly. In other words, the board made him say this

You ever stopped to think that maybe he told them that if he wasn't gonna get a lot of playing time he wanted to be sent on loan. He could have told him that BEFORE we decided to send him on loan. And they called him at 19pm or whatever to tell him he was

[didierforever 7,349]

I forgot to bold the part. have done it now. A lot of people also say that the trio behind the striker plays way too forward and combines way too much to bring the striker into play. Another way to look at it.

and how is that same as "stranded". lukaku had no outlet when jagielka and distin cleared the ball to him. and yet he held the ball well enough to bring them into play.

twice lukaku got the ball and started a counter and was fouled poorly and kompany got a yellow for that and silva should have it the first half.

as for the torres discussion, our AMs play the way they are being told to play. if torres cant combine with them then it is due to his lack of quality and his shortcoming. it has nothing similar to being stranded and totally alone the way lukaku was today.

[Stats 7,144]

Hold on, did anyone watch the whole match or just the goal? Because, the goal aside, I thought Lukaku was pretty bad and demonstrated exactly why we sent him on loan.

Apart from the goal, which he did brilliant in, he barely put a foot in right. He gave the ball away most of the time and his first touch let him down countless times. I don't know what his passing accuracy was, but I bet it was barely 50%. Defensively, he literally did absolutely nothing. There were incidents where the man on the ball was literally a few feet away from him and he just stood and stared at him. He was the reason on many occasions why Everton's high press failed. Then he went completely missing in the second half.

I don't want to discredit Romelu, he got half a chance and he did the most of it and sometimes that is more important than anything else. But Lescott doesn't make a mistake (twice) or hart saves the shot (as he maybe should have) and it would have been a terrible performance by him. It was NOT a performance that's better than anything our current strikers are capable of, in fact it just served to remind people why he needed to go on loan.

First half he was an absolute handful but second half faded and is general passing throughout the match was poor but let me ask you something. Everytime we have been to the Etihad as there been one striker for us in recent seasons who done better than what Lukaku done today? I don't think so. He was playing against a very good team and overall he can be happy with his performance. Never easy against City. But to say his performance is a reminder of why he needed to go out on loan I totally disagree with.

I agree that he was not excellent but certainly was not poor. There are not many strikers who even score at the Etihad besides put in a better performance than Lukaku. RVP and Rooney come to mind but not many I can name so I don't agree to use his general performance today as a general reason why we should have loaned him out.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

and how is that same as "stranded". lukaku had no outlet when jagielka and distin cleared the ball to him. and yet he held the ball well enough to bring them into play.

twice lukaku got the ball and started a counter and was fouled poorly and kompany got a yellow for that and silva should have it the first half.

as for the torres discussion, our AMs play the way they are being told to play. if torres cant combine with them then it is due to his lack of quality and his shortcoming. it has nothing similar to being stranded and totally alone the way lukaku was today.

stranded has two meanings. one where you are completely alone and don't have anyone to pass to, as you seem to mention with Lukaku, and another where you're hoping to recieve a ball, dragging defenders away, and working hard, you don't get the ball. That's another form of being stranded.

And that's another reason why strikers can't fare properly at the club. It's not just Torres, almost everyone has that problem. Ba was so prolific at Newcastle, joins Chelsea and boom. It is no way the fault of the AM's, but the way Chelsea have tactically set themselves up. Neither of the players should be blamed.