Romelu Lukaku

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Bad control per game:

Lukaku: 1.8

Aguero: 1.9

Kane: 1.9

Austin: 2.0

Sanchez: 2.2

Sterling: 2.2

Berahino: 2.3

Costa: 2.3

Perception is everything?

Could be something to do with the fact he touches the ball about half as much as the likes of Aguero, Costa, etc.

[DaddysHobby 60]

Could be something to do with the fact he touches the ball about half as much as the likes of Aguero, Costa, etc.

I could keep adding more and more names ... Lukaku wouldn't be the only player on that list that's starved of service ... Everton’s form as a whole has given him a great disservice.

[didierforever 7,349]

Bad control per game:

Lukaku: 1.8

Aguero: 1.9

Kane: 1.9

Austin: 2.0

Sanchez: 2.2

Sterling: 2.2

Berahino: 2.3

Costa: 2.3

Perception is everything?

THIS!!!!

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

Nice Lukaku goal, but for fuck sake... Have all English teams secretly agreed to play like shit in Europe as a joke?

This is Dinamo Kiev, not fucking Barcelona. Belgian teams beat them sometimes.

[lionsden 4,689]

Lukaku really is a younger and less prolific Costa i,e awful on the ball most of the time and offer very little else outside of goals.

[hamad138 190]

He sbould quickly move to wolfsburg. There he can develop much better

[iseah100 5,612]

Lukaku really is a younger and less prolific Costa i,e awful on the ball most of the time and offer very little else outside of goals.

What. The. Fuck.

[zolayes 14,489]

What. The. Fuck.

it is still fashionable to hit at Lukaku .. I just ignore them now. I am sure he will continue to improve

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

it is still fashionable to hit at Lukaku .. I just ignore them now. I am sure he will continue to improve

I think he was responding to the Costa burn. ;-)

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

Bad control per game:

Lukaku: 1.8

Aguero: 1.9

Kane: 1.9

Austin: 2.0

Sanchez: 2.2

Sterling: 2.2

Berahino: 2.3

Costa: 2.3

Perception is everything?

Interesting. I've never seen this stat before but I wonder how they assess it. Presumably they take 'opinion' out of it and make no attempt to judge how easy or how difficult it was to control the pass the player received; a poor touch just goes down as a poor touch regardless. I can see that this would be the only 'fair' way to do it.

If that's so then, like the pass completion statistic, I'm not sure this one really tells us enough of the story. Playing the ball into the receiver's path so he can collect it at full speed and break into space is a pass completion, but so too is playing the ball slightly behind the receiver, without pace so he is pressurised and has to play it back to the centre-half. In fact it's two.

Like a lot of people, I'm not a big believer in stats and I'll take some persuading that this particular one means much, if anything, at all.

[DaddysHobby 60]

Interesting. I've never seen this stat before but I wonder how they assess it. Presumably they take 'opinion' out of it and make no attempt to judge how easy or how difficult it was to control the pass the player received; a poor touch just goes down as a poor touch regardless. I can see that this would be the only 'fair' way to do it.

If that's so then, like the pass completion statistic, I'm not sure this one really tells us enough of the story. Playing the ball into the receiver's path so he can collect it at full speed and break into space is a pass completion, but so too is playing the ball slightly behind the receiver, without pace so he is pressurised and has to play it back to the centre-half. In fact it's two.

Like a lot of people, I'm not a big believer in stats and I'll take some persuading that this particular one means much, if anything, at all.

This article is a decent read ... stats, like perception, aren't everything either ... still it was a nice surprise that Lukaku comes off well.

[Myself 793]

Lukaku really is a younger and less prolific Costa i,e awful on the ball most of the time and offer very little else outside of goals.

u wot

[Spike 12,049]

Lukaku really is a younger and less prolific Costa i,e awful on the ball most of the time and offer very little else outside of goals.

Someone actually believes this.

[hamad138 190]

Why did he chose everton instead of wolfsburg... Dumb decision

[Jase 43,479]

Raiola is Ibrahimovic's and Pogba's agent...

[DaddysHobby 60]

Raiola is Ibrahimovic's and Pogba's agent...

He was looking into a transfer to Juve ... now he's claiming that they can't afford Lukaku.

[hamad138 190]

Lukaku wanted to join wolfsburg, he agreed with them but chelsea wanted 40million €.

Now Rumours are , this year he wants to join wolfsburg at all cost, he even changed his agents to make this transfer.

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

That guy seems like kind of an asshole.