So no one wishing we'd got Morata instead tonight then 
First miss the worst one, as much time as needed, through on goal. What more do you want!?
First miss the worst one, as much time as needed, through on goal. What more do you want!?
Romelu Lukaku vs Alvaro Morata 2017/18
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Ok, you're locked into that choice now.
Both have been underwhelming after great starts but I think I'm glad we got Lukaku. He is the better finisher and I think he will prove to be more consistent plus I get the feeling perhaps Morata's head could be back in Spain or Italy if he's not firing them in on a consistent basis.
Still a better number 9 than Morata
At the age of 25, Alvaro Morata has 50 career goals to his name, Romelu Lukaku on the other hand has 128 career goals at the age of 24
50? Wiki says 90.
Morata has 4 league and 2 champions league titles to his name
I'm sure he's swap them all for 60 goals for West Brom and Everton.
I presume they don't realise Real B are a professional side.
Saw a joke on Instagram. Morata could be sat on the aeroplane and still miss his flight.
Put Lukaku on Madrids bench and Im sure he would win a few CL as well.
Morata didn't play a single minute of Madrids knockout games last year if I remember correctly.
Whats the point in even bringing it up?
Morata didn't play a single minute of Madrids knockout games last year if I remember correctly.
Whats the point in even bringing it up?
No one takes second tier goals seriously. Otherwise Deeney would be a good striker.
ffs you can't just ignore them when talking about career goals thoughYou don't remember correctly. He played in the final.
Fair enough, but then Troy Deeney has 135 career goals. Pretty impressive right?
In Spain the B sides play in the second division, not a reserve league. If they didn't Morata would've gone on loan like Lukaku.
Yeah, sure. Morata had 45 for Real B by 21.
Apology accepted.
Its a comparative statistic between the two like how someone mentioned who scored more goals between the two. Morata hasn't played as many minutes as Lukaku or has always played as the central striker.
Neither are premium finishers, you could make that conclusion before joining their new clubs, but to me, Morata is the better player.
His finishing may have been poor, but his linkup, movement and positioning was good
Asensio I think his name is.
Lukaku's goals are top level though.
The B league system is Spain is notoriously low level. Including his goals for Madrid reserves is a very misleading statistic.
@starman
Its not a comparitive statistic though, all you've shown is Lukaku has scored many more goals for sides leagues below Madrid and Juve.
And yes, I do think he would give up most of the titles he had little part to play in simply because of his desperation to leave Madrid.
He even admitted he didn't want to rejoin the reigning CL champions from Juve in the first place.
Hence why he's now playing for Chelsea.
Its not a comparitive statistic though, all you've shown is Lukaku has scored many more goals for sides leagues below Madrid and Juve.
And yes, I do think he would give up most of the titles he had little part to play in simply because of his desperation to leave Madrid.
He even admitted he didn't want to rejoin the reigning CL champions from Juve in the first place.
Hence why he's now playing for Chelsea.
Leaving out career goals because they were scored in the second division is what's misleading.
Eh? Have you quoted the right person?
Morata never played in the final. Bale, Asensio were the two subs.
According to the BBC, Morata came on in the 89th minute for Kroos.
Hes scored half of his goals at a lower level of football than the Championship.
To try and put that on par with Lukaku's exploits is silly.
Two criminal misses
The goals were scored at a lower level for sure. Nobody is putting on par with Lukaku's record.
You can't just pretend they were not scored though (well, you can but that's silly).
In case people don't believe you. Here's Morata at 9:00 in the box when Asensio scores the 4th goal.
Had a poor night tonight, still rate the guy though.
But bashing him for scoring less goals than lukaku while playing less games is smart?
How so?
If we remove Morata's apps and goals for Real Madrid B he's on 70 goals in 214 games playing for Chelsea, Real and Juve.
If we remove Lukaku's goals and apps in Belguim and in his Chelsea stint where he barely got a game, he's on 119 goals in 234 apps.
So for 20 games more he scored 39 goals more, being 1 year younger, barely a difference especially if you account the quality of the service both got for their respective teams at the time.
There is never much 'proof' of how much improvement a player has left in him. Not sure why you're expecting any. It's subjective.
Also that poster expects everyone to follow his opinion and agree with it?
You remove his "Chelsea stint where he barely got a game" to boost his record or why?
His record for chelsea is actually 0 goals in 15 games. Why would you remove those from the statistics? are those games somehow not as important as the ones where he scored more?
At one moment I thought Morata was the better player, at the other moment I thought Lukaku was the better player. They are just miss and hit after all......can't quite deliver in the big moment.