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- Goals
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- Assists
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Lukaku has been brilliant this season, scoring goals and creating chances. How could you even compare him to benzema, who has scored about 5 goals this season?
Probably our best or second best outfield player this season and he is getting criticised. Ridiculous. If the team becomes better as an attacking unit then Lukaku will be banging them in for fun.
Lukaku is literally one of the few forwards who shouldn't be described as lazy. Comparing him to Firmino is fair enough, but the brazilian is one if not the forward who does the most dirty work among the attackers at top clubs in Europe. He is a heavy forward with different style compared to the likes of Firmino/Sanchez who will always look sluggish compared to them, if we try to paint a different picture we should compare him to the Lewandowski/Kane/Costa types who I wouldn't say are doing as much as Lukaku. And I don't even want to compare his attitude to Sanchez and Rashford, Sanchez is literally the worst when it comes to throwing his arms when a ball doesn't come to him, and Rashford is still a kid yet but sometimes he looks like he is trying to copy Ronaldo too much.
I maintain what I said, I think he has a great attitude, unselfish and puts the team first, comes about as a smart bloke and a still young player with self awareness to work on his flaws and improve.
I completely agree, Manchester United should have the best players in their respective positions. It is also very important to be realistic, who we might have got that would have been better for us? Kane? Yeah definitely, but we couldn't get him even for 200m pounds, and if Rashford ever becomes good enough to lead the line he will get his chance and that position will be his, no doubt. Yes he is behind other in terms of goals, but we as a team are behind others in attacking play and creating chances, as soon as we improve on that Lukaku will put up with 25 goals in the league without problems.
He will, and let's hope you stay by what you said.
Apart from everything else that you've said and that I don't agree with, the bolded part is probably the most laughable for me. Zlatan in his first season scored 28 goals and assisted 10 times, RVP scored 30 and assisted 15, played 200 minutes less than Zlatan. It's not a big margin and RVP is often said to have carried our team (rightfully so), whereas Zlatan 'didn't do that well for us'? Apart from one playing in a far better functioning team under a better manager, Zlatan would've probably broken RVP's goals record if he didn't get injured in bloody April.
He's had a very good season. My Dad is a Toffee so I watched them a lot and to be honest I expected him to do even better for us but yup, always gonna be a struggle in a defensive side. How many would he have got at City? More than Aguero? Quite probably.
Regards the comparisons with the other two strikers, as well as the fact of playing in more attacking sides and taking penalties, they were also in their peak in terms of age, both (I think!) older than Rom.
To me, however you cut it, he's done really well. In terms of the fee, whoever said selling him would be an issue is having a laugh. He was a bargain compared to subsequent fees!
Not really, no. He fukked up big against City which tilted the title in their favour. He costed us 2 goals in that game alone. He never comes up clutch against any of the big sides when we REALLY need him (minus the Chelsea game at home).
With a better striker, we would be putting in a better challenge at the title right now. I like him, but deep down inside we know he's not Manchester United starting striker quality. He may be in the next 2 years, but he's not right now and odds on to not be.
Yeah, that game titled the title, not City's incredible form when they smashed all the teams.
Re big teams.
Goal and assist vs City
assist vs Liverpool
Assist vs Spurs
Involved in 2 goals against Arsenal, 1 where he played good pass before Martial laid it off to Lingard.
Yeah if not for Lukaku we would be challenging for league title, nothing to do with our lack of wingers, poor contributions from full backs, ever changing second CB.
That's really cool, but when you compare Lukaku to our other title winning strikers, the gulf in class is there to see. And yes, gifting City that win was a 6-pointer game. You have to shine in those moments, and his moments come against the smaller teams - more often than not. You are a rooney fan so I guess you can accept mediocrity and not playing to a particular level.
Those other areas we can definitely improve on, but we need a top striker. Lukaku as much as I like him, has been average to below average overall.
Mino Raiola's impact on United is steadily diminishing. Pogba's the only client he has left at United now, right? I doubt Jose will be dissapointed.
Really happy he ditched Raiola. Let's hope Pogba follows suit.
Ah yeah, always forget about him.
Are you just trolling? Either that or you have a very different view to most people, which is ok but I totally disagree with you.
In all comps that is a good figure. However, only 16 goals in 32 PL games so far this year. Not exactly bad, but not amazing.
16 goals and 7 assists.
Again, not bad, but not exactly amazing. He had 25 goals and 6 assists for Everton last year.
Never thought scoring 27 goals in his first season would be considered below average. We are 2nd because of the team , not because of one player. Yes he had a mare against city at OT but every player has a bad game , it is for other players to step up and deliver. He has done his job effectively well. He is far from the concern, we have other major concerns like in our defence and with our winger,.
Probably not specifically a sponsorship but it was a celebration based on commercial interests.
And there's also a few games left and he's already equalled Ibra's total and is 3 goals off from equalling Van Persie's total. So there's a good chance of him outscoring both those players. He's getting treated unfairly this season. I would like him to have a few more goals in the league, but he's been a big success in my opinion.
RvP top scorer 30 in all competitions in 2012/13
Berbatov top scorer with 21 goals in 2010/11
Lukaku is on 27 and we have some more matches left.
I also tend to believe this new relationship with Roc Nation won't affect Lukaku's relationship with Raiola.
"Over in Belgium, Het Nieuwsblad believe the new relationship doesn’t end the Raiola link, saying: ‘The deal with Roc Nation Sports is purely about his commercial interests on the other side of the pond.’"
Overall comps he is doing well but in terms of the league, he pretty much needs to almost double his contribution next season for us to be in with a shot at the title.
Just a real shame he had that wobble around Christmas, he has been great before and after.
I think he's done well, but his goals are heavily concentrated against the small teams. We need him to kick on against the bigger clubs next year, or we rotate him with rashford or martial (if he stays) when we play a top team.
16 in 33 isn’t enough as a lone frontman, RVP scored 26, Berbatov scored 20 (11 were in 3 games though)
I was obviously talking about their goal ratios for their overall careers.
Man Utd 2:1 Tottenham
Great "assist".
Did his job fine for most of the game imo. Occupied their defenders well.
His main job is to score goals - let's not try mask it another way.
He is my favorite player in the team presently. A massive difference maker. Perhaps the hardest working striker in the league. When things click a bit more for the team his stats will be huge.
Bulldozer first touch got an assist. Hero.
Had a tough job today. Up against a colossal defender, but he occupied them pretty well.
Had a tough job today. Up against a colossal defender, but he occupied them pretty well.
Very simplistic way to look at strikers. In the league game when we lost 2-0 against them, Kane was brilliant even though he didn't score anyway.
And he's done that all season long.
I thought he was poor, I was hoping Martial would come on in place of him
Another big game without a goal, that is slightly concerning in terms of next season
Was a handful for their CB's. Lots of Airballs to chase and did that promptly. Ran channels really well and gave everything until the final whistle. He provides so much to the game other than goals and can see why Mourinho plays him constantly.
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