Feel like I fecked him up completely by choosing him in my Fantasy team. Did nothing since then, then got injured.
Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea
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Well then you know what to do, keep him in there for the rest of the season.
Yeah, they could've done without that. However, I think Harvetz has a much better all round game. Not sure when Pulisic is back but if Chelsea have one thing it is depth.
Pulisic Harvetz Mount/Ziyech/CHO
Is hardly disastrous. Especially when the run of games coming up are fairly easy.
Werner and Lukaku will both miss a couple of weeks by the sounds it.
Pulisic is still injured. He's been out since the first international break in Sept. Ziyech was too until recently, but he appears to be back now.
CHO Havertz Mount will likely be the starting front three for the next couple of weeks.
Not ideal, but considering the injuries that is still a decent line to fall back on. Additionally, I think Lukaku is a very limited player, so I don't see him as that much of a loss.
Lukaku out opens options of other to stake a claim to be first choice.
Pulisic should be back quite soon I think. It's a good opportunity for Havertz to hit form and try keep his place when the others are back, given he's been benched a lot recently. CHO has been typically used as a wing back typically by Tuchel, it's also an opportunity for him to play his prior normal position and show he's good enough in it. We all know what Mount can do, he's been well out of form this season so far though and also benched a bit.
Then we also have Barkley, and RLC who can play further forward as well as a 6 that Tuchel used him as so far.
Pulisic should be back quite soon I think. It's a good opportunity for Havertz to hit form and try keep his place when the others are back, given he's been benched a lot recently. CHO has been typically used as a wing back typically by Tuchel, it's also an opportunity for him to play his prior normal position and show he's good enough in it. We all know what Mount can do, he's been well out of form this season so far though and also benched a bit.
Then we also have Barkley, and RLC who can play further forward as well as a 6 that Tuchel used him as so far.
Ah a couple of weeks doesn’t sound so bad. Sky made it sound like he might need an op.
Same here.
Salah going in today and triple captained.
That should see him be shit on Sunday.
Doing God's work.
Even prior to his injury 6 games without a goal. He scored 27 in his first season for us, but was very streaky. I'm still not convinced that his improvement in Italy is not just down to taking penalties and playing in an easier league.
It was 100% that, hence why he continued to play for Belgium in exactly the same way and couldn't do anything in the CL.
Shhhh
don’t point out facts otherwise all the hipster fans will say you’re wrong. The same ones that listen to Stadio who were claiming he was going to come and destroy the league with Chelsea!
If anything so far, despite our start he’s proved exactly why ole fecked him off in the first place.
Agreed.
Laughed out loud against City when a simple pass bounced back off his shin to an opponent, not a luxury I could afford when he played at Utd. Amazing business that we almost recouped the 75 we spunked.
I know it's only Norwich, but they are simply a better team/unit without Lukaku.
Good thing is, given the amount they paid for him, he will play whenever fit.
Good thing is, given the amount they paid for him, he will play whenever fit.
7-0 and he doesn't get one 
Norwich needs to feck off form the league and never come back. There just here to collect tv money and parachute payments and add nothing to the league
Scored a couple goals in some two bit league and people talking about him as the best striker in the world. Please, no.
he was invisible today. 90m for what?
Agreed re being better without him but what an option from the bench/to rotate. Issue is Lukaku seems quite an ego so assume he’d want to start all the time.
The bigger issue is not his ego per se — it's his confidence. He's extremely reliant on it and he needs to be feel trusted by the manager to perform at his best.
7-0 and he doesn't get one
I wonder why...
Because he's a bit shit.
He's injured, yes, but it's mostly the "being a bit shit" thing.
Don't blame them blame the system that allows them to do it.
Price tag or not I'd like to think we'd admit to our mistake quickly.
Look at Kepa for example.
He'll score against us for sure, like he scored against you for us. And still flatter to deceive against any other toppisition. Yes, I said that.He will be back from injury in time for the Man Utd match.
People putting him up there with the likes of Lewandowski and Ronaldo as an elite striker at the start of the season....
He seems to be the same player that played for us. Same strenghts and limitations. There is no doubt he'll score 15-20+ goals in the league, but he won't turn up much in the big matches.
He seems to be the same player that played for us. Same strenghts and limitations. There is no doubt he'll score 15-20+ goals in the league, but he won't turn up much in the big matches.
I don’t think today is a day we can blame him for anything.
I'm an American but you nailed it. I do speak Spanish and Portuguese however, but I am the exception not the rule.
I was excited when Lukaku came to MUFC, but then I watched him play. He struggled against PL defenses and one on one with PL defenders and was average at finishing off excellent services. I said this before, I wonder how many 80th minute or later game tying or game winning goals he has in his career in the EPL. He can score when the going is good and the pressure is off, but disappears in crunch time.
Just wondering, how'd this turn out?
It’s hilarious how Lukaku gets ridiculed on here for being poor in big games by fans of Bruno Fernandes.
Difference is, Bruno was half the price and was brought as a somewhat unknown at top European level football. Lukaku on the other hand was a known donkey at PL, CL and top level international football and somehow people thought beating up on poor Serie A sides meant he had developed.
It's hilarous how people thought the Lukaku we saw at Everton and Utd was magically going to be different on his return to Chelsea. Even in Italy he regularly went 3 or 4 games without scoring, his current drought is a fairly regular thing with him. He will still score 20+ goals but most of those will probably be goals that round off wins, rather than goals that decide games.
It’s hilarious how your best defence of Lukaku is to point at another player.
The criticisms of Lukaku seem a bit false.
In the 19 league games they played last season after Tuchel joined, they won 6 games by 1 goal, drew 5, and lost 2 by 1 goal. So 13 of their 19 games had a 1 goal margin.
This season they've won 6 of 9 with a 2+ goal margin. They've went from 2/3 of their league games being tight to 2/3 of their games being comfortable.
Lukaku was brought in to make tight wins comfortable, ultimately guarding against tight draws and losses that lose the league more than big games. They didn't need a striker to turn the tide in big games: they beat City, Liverpool Leicester and Spurs, drew against us, and won the CL. They needed a striker to rack up a few extra points in games like Leeds, Wolves, Southampton or Brighton, which saw 1 goal across the 4 games. Judging him on everything but that is just petty.
In the 19 league games they played last season after Tuchel joined, they won 6 games by 1 goal, drew 5, and lost 2 by 1 goal. So 13 of their 19 games had a 1 goal margin.
This season they've won 6 of 9 with a 2+ goal margin. They've went from 2/3 of their league games being tight to 2/3 of their games being comfortable.
Lukaku was brought in to make tight wins comfortable, ultimately guarding against tight draws and losses that lose the league more than big games. They didn't need a striker to turn the tide in big games: they beat City, Liverpool Leicester and Spurs, drew against us, and won the CL. They needed a striker to rack up a few extra points in games like Leeds, Wolves, Southampton or Brighton, which saw 1 goal across the 4 games. Judging him on everything but that is just petty.
Not really, those are expectations from a Cavani like or even Ighalo like signing who are expected to add few goals and replace your first choice striker, and not club record signing in his best years.
I am pretty sure Chelsea fans expect more than that.
And this season they have drawn with the Dippers and lost to City. Further to that 35 year old Giroud is out pacing Lukaku's Serie A goal scoring record from last season.