He scored in almost every final he played in, though. 9 goals in 10 finals for Chelsea. A big game player that often made the difference when it mattered.
Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea
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Great improvement in two areas I saw in his game for Chelsea
1. He didn't try to take on players with ball on his feet instead shielding the ball and look for players to pass them.That side of his game he improved vastly at inter and his assists stats for inter proved he did improved in that scenario.
2. Movement by him to pull away from defenders is top quality. First goal against villa reminded me of Costa second goal identical to hasselbank.Top class striker movements.
1. He didn't try to take on players with ball on his feet instead shielding the ball and look for players to pass them.That side of his game he improved vastly at inter and his assists stats for inter proved he did improved in that scenario.
2. Movement by him to pull away from defenders is top quality. First goal against villa reminded me of Costa second goal identical to hasselbank.Top class striker movements.
I will say, however, that newbies like MvG prove that there is value in having newbies roaming outside the newbies forum. Anyway, I agree with MvG here. Playing in Serie A has allowed Lukaku to work on aspects of his game that were woeful, but it was still in Serie A. Whether he can bring that back into the PL remains to be seen. He will again have better players around him at Chelsea than he did at Everton, so you'd think he'd be likely to score more goals, but he had a pretty good team around him at United and his numbers went down. It's early days yet, time will tell.
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Keep digging.Oh, newbies should have no opinion different then mine because I am correct no matter what. Pathetic, trying to having an elitist mentality on a football forum. You are adding nothing to this conversation except abuse, arrogance and toxicity. Who made this guy a full member?
There's no way that @Bleu isn't a Chelsea fan.
Cheers ! Mighty kind of you, sir.
Agree as well. I think it’s time to sit back and watch a few matches now. So many Chelsea fans going overboard in my view. But as you say only time will tell.
He's 100% haram or his relative.
The big game player does it again. Best striker in the world
Best no9 in the world at the moment.
lukaku scoring only once against Zenit and people go mad
after how many other players?
FFS. As if we needed this guy to rub it in so this thread keeps getting bumped.
. This is new argument against him, i give you that.Lewandowski is twice the player.
Lukaku is winning us games. His touch and control can be erratic but he’s scoring.
He's obviously not the best in the world.
He's obviously had a great start at Chelsea and looks exactly what we were missing last season.
He's obviously had a great start at Chelsea and looks exactly what we were missing last season.
Good for Rom but still happy that we sold him.
I blame you for their win tonight
He has won silverware since he left and will most likely win more with Chelsea, so he must be quite happy too.
I blame myself.
He started well with United too.. we'll see.
I think he will prove to be decent overall. We created so many clear cut chances last season, some that a blind man could finish. If he keeps getting into good positions then he will score. The more he scores, the longer he plays with confidence.
I think he'll finish as the top scorer in the league this season. Chelsea seems to be the perfect fit for him
Was banging them in for United at the start too. He’s a donkey.
He's not a donkey is he. 255 goals in 512 pro apps. His ball control and dribbling can sometimes be a bit "eh?!" but hes a goalscorer. Proven one too. Thats what we needed, and touch wood we now have it (i say touch wood as many proven strikers seem to be shit with us)
He will continue to score plenty for Chelsea, and may well end up on +30 for the season. However, in a Premier League season that looks like it could be really tight and therefore be decided by the games between Chelsea, City, Liverpool and ourselves, is he really the 100m man you would want to make the difference in those games? Not a chance.
Winning against mid table and relegation battle teams will most likely win the title. Not only this season but every season. If you not win them 100 % won t win title any way.
Trust me I was making the same arguments when he was at United. He scored 27 in his first season here. Soon his first touch and poor close control drives you insane and held us back in the big games. I do think he fits Chelsea more and he won’t be allowed to bulk into almost a literal donkey like he was at United. All his mobility went in his 2nd season.
They won the CL last season. Won at anfield, beat city twice in a month. Beating the big teams wasn't the problem, they didn't need Lukaku for that. They were winning at anfield until Alonso had a brainfart
I think they are implying that he will hinder the team in the big games because he doesn't score a lot in such games and also doesn't press like Werner. If that proves to be the case, then they have a point. The Liverpool game was encouraging, though he had some bad moments. I guess we will see as the season progresses.
He looked very mobile and intense to me when he scored twice against PSG and 9 times overall in a short period after Solskjaer took over from Mourinho
I'm watching Haaland right now and he's only just turned 21 but his hold up play is already better and more confident than Big Rom, who wasn't bad yesterday, but it's always like watching a wrestler or bodybuilder try and control the ball. Obviously Lukaku is in great form right now so it's not surprising to see him being compared with the best, but when both are in form, Haaland over him any day.
Was he involved much today? Didn't see the game but noticed he had no goals/assists in what sounded like a fairly comfortable Chelsea win.
Isolated first half. Much better in the second half. Should have had at least two assists, Kovacic and Werner missing absolute sitters.
His usual self. Fluffed a couple of promising attacks, pointed a lot. I don't remember seeing him fall over the ball though, so he is improving.
He even blocked Alonso once
He made a couple of mistakes. Passing the ball to a wide open Werner in front of goal instead of taking on both CBs that were in front of him!!
He will learn Werner is never truly on a break away.
He made some really nice scoring positions. Kovacic really should have handed him a goal at one point.
3 games so far against the big 6, only scored the 1 goal but it was against Arsenal so does it even count? See what he does against City next week
Leicester has taken over Arsenal’s spot in the top 6. The real measure will be against the top 4 this season though.