Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea

Thought he did well on the turn to gain a half yard on the defender... Could have found the net with a bit more luck.

Werner wouldn't have been in that position to start.
 
My Chelsea mates are already turning on him…. Through no fault of his own tbf… it’s all the hipster journalists that suddenly decided he was elite level because he did well in an Inter side that won the league with Ashley Young & Alexis Sanchez.

He wasn’t elite there just as he wasn’t realy a flop here. He gets judged in extremes for some reason when he’s always basically been the same very good- but not exceptional-Lukaku
 
Guy has some issues playing Juventus, one goal, which i believe was a penalty, in 6(?) games against them.
Any assists?
 
duffer said:
If Giflord was getting married at the same time as Lukaku was playing, he'd be sneaking a screen into the service in the hope he could see Rom miss a chance.
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He's changed you kept saying. He's changed :lol:
Don''t worry i have some special gifs for you later.
 
Did you see that last minute Ronaldo winner in the champions league? Unbelievable!
No mate I was making a gif of Lukaku missing a chance.
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Cloud7 said:
Classic Lukaku in a big game performance then ?
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He was OK. Not great, not terrible. Expect more from him of course, but you'd think he missed 4 pens and scored 3 own goals the way some go on about him :D
 
Are we really doing this? Obviously he's not going to find it as easy as in Italy where he could bang goals past pretty shite teams quite regularly, but does that mean he's not improved significantly since he left us?

For me he's a great striker, he knows he belongs at the top level now, and yes it's harder to keep that confidence when playing good defences every week but ultimately Chelsea not scoring goals is down to Tuchel, not Lukaku. If you play 5 defenders and 3 DMs against City then your 2 forwards have to have some game if they're to lay a glove on them. The guy was too defensive for PSG and I think eventually he'll have the same problems at Chelsea too.
 
GifLord said:
I had 4 vlc's open. I have 2 1440p screens so i can easily watch them. And yeah he was pretty fecking bad. I think you made a big mistake by signing him because you look like playing with 10 men vs good teams.
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I've always wondered what kind of set you have. Didn't imagine I would read it in a Lukaku thread :lol:

IPTV? Satelitte? VPN? You subscribed to all the channels?
 
TwoSheds said:
Are we really doing this? Obviously he's not going to find it as easy as in Italy where he could bang goals past pretty shite teams quite regularly, but does that mean he's not improved significantly since he left us?

For me he's a great striker, he knows he belongs at the top level now, and yes it's harder to keep that confidence when playing good defences every week but ultimately Chelsea not scoring goals is down to Tuchel, not Lukaku. If you play 5 defenders and 3 DMs against City then your 2 forwards have to have some game if they're to lay a glove on them. The guy was too defensive for PSG and I think eventually he'll have the same problems at Chelsea too.
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But they totally dominated the ball against Juve.
 
TwoSheds said:
Are we really doing this? Obviously he's not going to find it as easy as in Italy where he could bang goals past pretty shite teams quite regularly, but does that mean he's not improved significantly since he left us?

For me he's a great striker, he knows he belongs at the top level now, and yes it's harder to keep that confidence when playing good defences every week but ultimately Chelsea not scoring goals is down to Tuchel, not Lukaku. If you play 5 defenders and 3 DMs against City then your 2 forwards have to have some game if they're to lay a glove on them. The guy was too defensive for PSG and I think eventually he'll have the same problems at Chelsea too.
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Spot on
 
TwoSheds said:
Are we really doing this? Obviously he's not going to find it as easy as in Italy where he could bang goals past pretty shite teams quite regularly, but does that mean he's not improved significantly since he left us?

For me he's a great striker, he knows he belongs at the top level now, and yes it's harder to keep that confidence when playing good defences every week but ultimately Chelsea not scoring goals is down to Tuchel, not Lukaku. If you play 5 defenders and 3 DMs against City then your 2 forwards have to have some game if they're to lay a glove on them. The guy was too defensive for PSG and I think eventually he'll have the same problems at Chelsea too.
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He’s still going to bang goals against the shite teams in the PL, just as he did before.

The big difference is that Conte built a team and a system around Lukaku and getting the most out of him, Chelsea on the other hand is viewing him as a missing piece that should - on paper, provide them with more of a consistent goal threat and return over the course of the season. But they aren’t going to change their system around just to get the most out of Lukaku and he’ll certainly have to do a lot more on his own.
 
Only the missed chance is bad, the first 2 situations are pretty routine with defender contesting (granted, not judging the flight path of the ball correctly wasnt great, but it's Lukaku), 3rd one the pass was never really on so he can either cut back or switch the play to the other wing, and he chose the latter (the cross was pretty hospital).

It's just the same old Lukaku, intention is largely correct but execution is found wanting due to his technical deficiencies.
 
Idxomer said:
But they totally dominated the ball against Juve.
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Yes, but in a bad way. Only after the 80th minute we started to play better. Offensively we were not in the game until then.
 
Not trying to be a prick, but Lukaku is going to be muck in these games. You'd do better to get used to it. Can still bring a lot of value to a team like Chelsea who give up so few changes the other end
 
He has to get that header on target but Lukaku was never that great in the air.
I thought he improved to the point he was one of the best players with his back to goal in the world? How he was this beast at bullying defenders?
I’ve yet to see it.
 
duffer said:
You're watching 4 matches at once? Blimey!

You obviously hate the guy and that's fine but don't pretend it's anything other than that.
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Doesn't he do that for every game, so he can produce the Gifs afterwards? Lukaku is just a bonus for him.


You saw the difference between a top striker and Lukaku last night. We played like shit and so did Ronaldo, but he gets one chance and its in the net. Lukaku needs 4 or 5 chances. People can talk about Chelsea playing more to his strengths all they want, you won't get that many chances in a game against the big teams.

Chelsea are 4 points up on last season, so it wont matter to them too much yet. Give it 6 months though and the cracks will start to show.
 
Pretty funny how it was made out that he was a completely different striker after his Inter spell. He’s the exact same player and his game is exactly the same. He’s a top forward (not anywhere near as good as he thinks he is mind) and he’ll score a lot of goals but his big moment, big game goal getting will be as below average as it’s always been.
Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, City and Juventus. One goal from those games…
 
Leroy The Red said:
Pretty funny how it was made out that he was a completely different striker after his Inter spell. He’s the exact same player and his game is exactly the same. He’s a top forward (not anywhere near as good as he thinks he is mind) and he’ll score a lot of goals but his big moment, big game goal getting will be as below average as it’s always been.
Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, City and Juventus. One goal from those games…
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I mean, Arsenal and Spurs are mid table teams at present (:D) but he does have it all to prove this season against the very best sides in the biggest games.
 
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