If we win the Treble with Lukaku I will remember this post and tip my hat to you sir.
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If we win the Treble with Lukaku I will remember this post and tip my hat to you sir.
He makes one or two good runs per game that i think placates all the pundits. The rest of the game he is stood still.
Not the point i was making as i am sure you know - but we shall leave it there.
Yeah, it's not like we didn't have any strikers that season that we rotated between, it was only Andy Cole
Dropping deep to hold up the ball as a focal point for our runners to run in behind isn't standing still though.
You cannot defend so many missed chances. He will not get 5 or 6 chances in games against better teams. Any half decent striker doesnt miss all of the open goal v Spurs, the chance to equalise almost straight after their first goal and that awful dragged wide shot in the first 15 mins at Brighton.
Yeah, it's not like we didn't have any strikers that season that we rotated between, it was only Andy Cole
Are you familiar with the concept of a playful analogy to illustrate a point?
Clearly ive never heard of Yorke and the boys. An oversight on my part, how embarrassing.
Standards have dropped massively around here.
Couldn't agree with this more. He's not lazy, per se, but he rests a lot, and he doesn't seem switched on or alert enough to make movements that will help his teammates. He is all power and has no football intelligence.
Couldn't agree with this more. He's not lazy, per se, but he rests a lot, and he doesn't seem switched on or alert enough to make movements that will help his teammates. He is all power and has no football intelligence.
There's no point waiting until our players are 6 feet from him to drop deep though. He doesn't move until they're almost on top of him.
Jose actually had a go at him in the first half because he was ‘resting’.
When provided with space he’s good.
When provided with space he’s good.
He has to be gifted goals.
Cole played with a striker partner who outscored him that season both in the league and total goals.
It happens. Strikers go through phases. Even van Persie went on a 10 game barren streak in that monster season.
There's a reason why the very best strikers in football only have conversion rates of like 22-26%.
Didn't catch the game but two nice Pogba passes there.
It was a good performance, could have been better. I think you can praise him, but also ask for more. His finishing did not cost us today, but we are not going to face a side as leaky as Burnley every week.
Hope this kicks him off, he should be aiming for the golden boot and challenging himself to be in contention for it.
Hope this kicks him off, he should be aiming for the golden boot and challenging himself to be in contention for it.
Another day we'd be punished with his misses but thankfully Burnley are shit and we created more than enough chances to win. Needs to work on his finishing.
Every one of the players you listed missed sitters for United. It happens because these are human beings and not robots (shocking, I know). It’s going to happen with every striker who plays for United as long as the club exists.
Lukaku’s shortcomings are amplified by the fact that he’s rarely, if ever, given any real support in attack. It’s a testament to his ability that he gets as many chances as he does in this side.
Yep that chance. But he did the right thing going round the keeper. What was pointless was the step overs which disrupted his rhythm towards the keeper.
Cause we don't move the ball fast enough so the play gets congested around the box.
He has to stand there watching Pogba keep the ball for an age with Sanchez narrowing the left side as we plod forward so the defenders have time to push up towards play.
If anything we need less movement, get into the box and stay there.
And if he’d just tried to dink it past Hart with no misdirection and the keeper had taken the ball, I’m sure you’d have complained about that as well.
On a side note, have you ever played football?
Goal affect, think how many atrocious games Zlatan had but he’d grab a goal and somehow get MOTM.
As for Lukakus performance today thought overall he was good, he was a menace to their CB’s and there were some good moments of link up play and hold up. I had him in contention for MOTM but the missed opportunities for me meant I couldn’t pick him.
He is as much to blame as anybody for that. When he does manage to control the ball he runs backwards or sideways. He's incapable of turning quickly and playing quick passes.
What? He wasn't missing as many sitters last season because we just weren't creating anything. Or was he awful last season and has now magically improved? This season we've been much more progressive because Pogba has been freed up a bit.
The stepovers were how he beat the goalkeepers ffs, it's not like they didn't work. If the defender hadn't blatantly fouled Lukaku afterwards absolutely nobody would have criticised him for how he went past the goalkeeper.
Not really, it’s obvious that you have a better chance by going to the right because of the pace you have, or fire immedialtely. Going left and stopping invited the defender back into the equation, it being a foul is besides the point in the grand scheme of things. Now I just saw the situation again while typing, it’s obvious he should have continued past the keeper and fired with his right foot. Stopping didn’t make any sense at all, as we all saw in the end
His main problem is as I said previously, he's great finisher on instinct. Give him the ball with no time to think and has to shoot with first touch and bang, he'll get it in. That's why his headers are great. They're all on instinct.
Give him time to think and get the ball on his preferred leg and so and he'll miss 9 times out of 10.
Give him time to think and get the ball on his preferred leg and so and he'll miss 9 times out of 10.
He was like a bulldozer today. Deserved a hat-trick.
Scores 2 goals and all the talk is about how he should have had 4 and how he’s not good enough . With fans like these we don’t even need opposing fans giving him shit. Hope he bags two more against Watford and keeps these annoying fecks and their toxic attitude quiet!
. With fans like these we don’t even need opposing fans giving him shit. Hope he bags two more against Watford and keeps these annoying fecks and their toxic attitude quiet!Has to use Lingard there. Difficult chance in the end so it's a forgivable one to miss.
Nothing wrong with the stepovers but he knew where the defender was. Good strikers go to the left despite that because they want it on their preferred foot. Great strikers go to the right and score. We need a great striker.
Scores 2 goals and all the talk is about how he should have had 4 and how he’s not good enough
The talk is about how wasteful he is, and how it is costing us in other games, and will likely continue to cost us points in the future. Some of us believe that a player worth £90m+ should be able to finish better, link play better, make better runs and give more to the team. But let's just look at this game and conclude that everything is fine with our club and that Lukaku didn't score two tap ins today.
Another day we'd be punished with his misses but thankfully Burnley are shit and we created more than enough chances to win. Still needs to work on his finishing though.
He was a beast today. Hope he'll keep it up. He was off form. Excellent movement, link-up play and some great passes today.
@GifLord
So 2 & 3 were "sitters"? Come on, guys!
@GifLord
So 2 & 3 were "sitters"?
Come on, guys! If he was actually consistent, we’d be on 12 points
In my opinion, before this he was just rusty without a pre season. Matic looked rusty against Spurs as well. He looked a bit sharper today and was bullying those Burnley defenders.
Every player is will waste chances at one point or another. It’s real life not FIFA. Did you not see Kane miss the same header that Lukaku made today? Yet you’re probably in the same crowd praising Kane or is he too wasteful for your taste too? One player doesn’t cost you points, or are you blaming him for the defensive mistakes too since he cost 90 mil?
Chances are not sitters are they?He was a beast today. Hope he'll keep it up. He was off form. Excellent movement, link-up play and some great passes today.
@GifLord
So 2 & 3 were "sitters"?
And if he’d just tried to dink it past Hart with no misdirection and the keeper had taken the ball, I’m sure you’d have complained about that as well
On a side note, have you ever played football?
Yes. And as a striker. That's got nothing to do with it. I'm saying there was no need to overcomplicate things. He's a talented striker who could be one of the world's best on his day. Hell he could have had 5 more goals to his name already. But he misses to many easy chances. It can be the difference of 10 points at the end of the season especially if it involves the first goal as we aren't to great at coming back these days.
I remember under rvps first season we hardly created many chances for him but my word was he ruthless in front of goal. He also created goals from nothing and impossible angles. The likes of ole and rvn were very similar and ruthless. Can you see a ruthless streak in lukaku? Not so sure. Also he is a flat track bully. Stats back it. I hope he improves his record against big teams this season.
Through 1 on 1, some pathetic step over trick that took an age for him to sort his feet out and then bullied.
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