mariachi-19
Full Member
Nah that's crap.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.
Every pundit around were creaming themselves when he came back as suggesting he's this great big game player who's going to elevate this Chelsea side to another level.
He's exactly the same limited player as he always was...