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Let's just agree we don't see eye to eye, to put it mildly.
People keep saying his teammates (KDB, Hazard) didn’t pass to him in many instances as a counter argument but whoever played football knows that when you don’t trust your teammate to handle the pass/situation even if he’s in a better position you go another route/take the shot yourself essentially playing percentages. I never seen it with them on a club level (avoiding passing to certain player) as Hazard even has been labeled too selfless at times and KDB loves his pass, it doesn’t make any sense. However, what is more realistic is that they really wanted to win and simply couldn’t trust Lukaku in a lot situations as they know his abilities/shortcomings better than we do and opted for options what they felt would give them the best chance of scoring. These are professionals footballers we’re talking about not some butthurt teenagers and there’s literally little evidence to suggest these guys would put their own glory above the team.
In a lot of situations KDB would pass it to Hazard or vice versa (or waiting for each other to open up) when Lukaku might have been in a better position and I only seen once Hazard going for it himself. Hence, you can’t say they were looking for personal glory as they seemed to be fine with putting another teammate through.
The numbers look similar but have to say the proportion of their goals leaned more towards the league. Benzema had this crazy season when he scored and assisted 21 each ( all comps, cause they matter you know).
And that's largely down to the lack of support he gets. Lukaku was the only competent attacker we had last season and gets far too much stick for his lack of pl goals, our attackers as a whole largely disappointing bar him i'd say.
Bit of a spawny bum save? But still. Kasper is not a crap keeper. For me, I want Romelu to get 3 or 4 of these chances per game and if he's missing all of them, then we have a problem.
