Romelu Lukaku

[killer1257 3,282]

He needs passes. If he gets chances, he will score goals. But our team is not famous for creating chances, especially with Kovacic, Jorgi, Kante and Werner. All of them are not creative. Almost every Manchester City player is more creative than our midfield and attackers. Even Cancelo is.. 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

16 minutes ago, Warning_Hazard said:

PISS POOR.

Knew he wasnt what you all said!

Jesus christ my nan could of done better today, He looked virtually the same as his first stint today.

£97M hahaha what a joke

You must be trolling here

[laura90 556]

Every player from our front three last season was crucial for our chances creation.  And our defense. Every  one from the front three was crucial simply because neither one of them is especially talented, technically gifted or capable to create something on their own. Even Werner, last season had the highest contribution for goals scored in the team.

Believing in our ability to create the same amount of chances with removing one of them was rather naive . Believing Lukaku is the striker to thrive from our reduced attacking play also naive. These days our full backs, or wing backs are bound to cross to Lukaku first and defend later. 

Lukaku addition only made sense to me  if we were to switch to back four and keep the same number of  attackers. Since we don't have players for that our entire build up play may suffer further. 

It will be big games where we will be found out. Liverpool, City, Man Utd and whoever we meet in the CL knock out stage. But something tells me we will find playing likes of Brentford and Southampton harder than Arsenal and Tottenham. With this cross it to Lukaku set up.

 

 

Edited September 25, 2021 by laura90

[Warning_Hazard 156]

Sorry but I was at the game and he was awful.

Shocking control, Offered nothing, Couldnt hold the ball up AND missed an absolute sitter, Hoofing at it like a donkey.

As a team we didnt turn up but my god he stood out today, Atleast Alonso was marked out the game by 3 players!

Posters here harping on about its the rest of the squad not putting the ball on a plate for him are clutching at straws.

 

Its not just lack of threat in front of goal its his whole bledy game, Today atleast.

 

Worried.

[DH1988 1,273]

It's not about putting a ball on a plate, our formation and initial plan seemed to be setup to allow us to bring City onto us and play the ball down the channels or over the top, which worked everytime we did that.. The problem became that we simply don't have the midfielders to do that consistently or to a standard required.

Rom threw his hands up and went mad at Azpi when a cross didn't come in for the 10th time early on, id of done the same? 

I completely understand the change of formation for this game, the players failed to execute it and TT, for once, failed to change it sooner.

[laura90 556]

2 hours ago, Warning_Hazard said:

Sorry but I was at the game and he was awful.

Shocking control, Offered nothing, Couldnt hold the ball up AND missed an absolute sitter, Hoofing at it like a donkey.

As a team we didnt turn up but my god he stood out today, Atleast Alonso was marked out the game by 3 players!

Posters here harping on about its the rest of the squad not putting the ball on a plate for him are clutching at straws.

 

Its not just lack of threat in front of goal its his whole bledy game, Today atleast.

 

Worried.

Lukaku has always been this type of striker and always will be sadly, when he scores it's all great. When he doesn't score, everything he lacks is highly visible.

Keep calm and accept it, top four in the Premier League with Lukaku up front is great achievement. As good as it gets. Even Man Utd failed to carry it out.

Edited September 25, 2021 by laura90

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

It’s time for him to show his worth these next several games. It’s what he was specifically bought for. 

[Tomo 21,733]

What worries me is he appears to be untouchable.

Record signing or not he shouldn't be immune to being rotated or brought out of a match.

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

6 minutes ago, Tomo said:

What worries me is he appears to be untouchable.

Record signing or not he shouldn't be immune to being rotated or brought out of a match.

Don't think he was the issue today.

The set up neglected literally everyone's ability to transition considering City's press, which led to some horrid show performances. Hindsight is a bitch but the fact Tuchel continued on with this until City scored is ever so worrying. 

The must not lose bug that ate Mourinho and Conte alive may have landed on Tuchel...

[robsblubot 3,504]

2 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Don't think he was the issue today.

The set up neglected literally everyone's ability to transition considering City's press, which led to some horrid show performances. Hindsight is a bitch but the fact Tuchel continued on with this until City scored is ever so worrying. 

The must not lose bug that ate Mourinho and Conte alive may have landed on Tuchel...

Wasn’t the issue? He did not show up. I mean his first touch didn’t show, which means he did not either. Really poor showing by mr lukaku.

this is what I was afraid of: against city at least, we appear weaker than last season and by a long shot.

[laura90 556]

Those pics from Porto, posted in the match thread,  would have never been taken had Lukaku led our line. We are weaker and will be against City, Liverpool, United.  We play with ten men, Lukaku is isolated. And maybe even Brentford , West Ham, Soton, basically every team in the PL that has very good defender able to pocked him.

He disrupted our build up play, offering very little except goals. Which is fine, when he scores and we win. He was moaning, pointing and sulking  today, sometimes hard to even watch. This type of behavior doesn't do any good for the rest of the team. Played six games, scored in three. Needs to do it more often or he will become:

Kepa Arizzabalaga II. 

For Chelsea football club.

Because everything he can offer except his goals is so negative and ugly that can place him right beside Kepa in the stands. 

Edited September 30, 2021 by laura90

[Mário César 975]

23 minutes ago, laura90 said:

Those pics from Porto, posted in the match thread,  would have never been taken had Lukaku led our line.       We are weaker and will be against City, Liverpool, United.  We play with ten man, Lukaku is isolated. And maybe even Brentford , West Ham, Soton, basically every team in the PL that has very good defender able to pocked him.

He disrupted our build up play, offering very little except goals. Which is fine, when he scores and we win. He was moaning, pointing and sulking  today, sometimes hard to even watch. This type of behavior doesn't do any good for the rest of the team. Played six games, scored in three. Needs to do it more often or he will become:

Kepa Arizzabalaga II. 

For Chelsea football club.

Because everything he can offer except his goals is so negative and ugly that can place him right beside Kepa in the stands. 

"everything he can offer except his goals?"

i repeat

except his goals

just goals, right? eheh

what is the purper of football? score goals, right?

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

1 hour ago, robsblubot said:

Wasn’t the issue? He did not show up. I mean his first touch didn’t show, which means he did not either. Really poor showing by mr lukaku.

this is what I was afraid of: against city at least, we appear weaker than last season and by a long shot.

If you think Lukaku was the highlight of our defeat as you’ve abundantly made clear then I’m sorry because that’s something I won’t ever agree with. 

[robsblubot 3,504]

7 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

If you think Lukaku was the highlight of our defeat as you’ve abundantly made clear then I’m sorry because that’s something I won’t ever agree with. 

Agree to disagree then. 👍

For me he killed so many counters with both bad, or lack of, movement as well as poor touches. He was completely absent in the build up, which does affect our overall performance esp going forward.

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

4 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Agree to disagree then. 👍

For me he killed so many counters with both bad, or lack of, movement as well as poor touches. He was completely absent in the build up, which does affect our overall performance esp going forward.

Think the abysmal performance of our midfielders and the lack of open space to properly transition the ball mixed in with Tuchel’s poor tactics to counter Ciry’s press was the main reason but to each their own mate. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,477]

It is hard to have it both ways. Lukaku didn’t get involved in the build up much because he and Werner were isolated from our midfield from most of the game. His role is to finish, which he does really well. We had our midfield and wingbacks so far back most of the game, we hardly ever got into attacking positions. I don't know how people are pointing fingers at Lukaku when we rarely got the ball into situations for him to effect the game. The problem was the 3-5-2 got pinned back almost the entire game. I love Giroud, I have no doubt if Giroud was in today, it would have looked exactly the same. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

You can see Mounts importance considering Rodri had a field day against us. Mount always presses the holding midfielder. 
 

 

[robsblubot 3,504]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Think the abysmal performance of our midfielders and the lack of open space to properly transition the ball mixed in with Tuchel’s poor tactics to counter Ciry’s press was the main reason but to each their own mate. 

They were overwhelmed because of the way city plays, by constantly outnumbering our players in all areas of the pitch.

50 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

It is hard to have it both ways. Lukaku didn’t get involved in the build up much because he and Werner were isolated from our midfield from most of the game. His role is to finish, which he does really well. We had our midfield and wingbacks so far back most of the game, we hardly ever got into attacking positions. I don't know how people are pointing fingers at Lukaku when we rarely got the ball into situations for him to effect the game. The problem was the 3-5-2 got pinned back almost the entire game. I love Giroud, I have no doubt if Giroud was in today, it would have looked exactly the same. 

Hate to break it to you, but then we are not contenders. City (and Guardiola) secret sauce is exactly that every player is constantly involved in the build up. Or a more fair way to say it, they have more players involved in the buildup than other sides. Even their goalie was handpicked because he can pick a pass. And that's why we were able to match them last CL, because we also did that. If now we have a immobile striker who needs the ball at his feel, well, then we are fucked.

Besides, those unacceptably poor first touches have little to do with how the team played and more to do with, well Lukaku's lack of skill. Lukauku's first touch is very popular on twitter right now, and I have to say deservedly so.