Didn’t Paddy McNair keep him quiet once? Before the game it was all about how Lukaku will physically dominate him but Paddy had him in his pocket
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I think Suarez is a good example of the footballing point I was trying to make. When a player (like Tevez/di Maria) is so successful on the pitch, there's only so much posts and bantz/'hate' you can continue to aim in threads without just repeating the same thing over and over again even if they are a vile, racist, biting cnut.
With Moyes (his up and down career post Utd and his comments as you've mentioned) and Lukaku, there's just so much ammo and bait to go with i.e it's easy to be 'relevant' with them. However, do agree that not just in this thread, there is a lot of vitriol that is just unhealthy on these boards; Maguire coming to mind, although of course there is criticism justified purely on actual playing performances.
Benched tonight, going to end up marginally less involved than his last game. Could possibly pick up more touches on the sideline I suppose.
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That is more shocking that 7 touches against Palace.
If you look hard enough you will always find peculiar stats like this.
Feel like his Chelsea career is more or less done.
Feels like he's being rested for the final on Sunday.
It would be bordering on sabotage if he starts the final but I fear you're right.
Just not a great player and a poor signing by Chelsea. Will always score goals against the likes of Norwich or Watford but he has very little else to offer. Back to Inter in the summer for half the price.
It's obvious but yeah, it is what it is. We just have to hope he can get on the end of a cross or something.
Shows how much the Italian league has declined for me.
Ronaldo's decline is comparable too for that matter. 29G + 4A in 33 apps vs whatever he's on now. Think Ibra at 40 (after that bad ligament injury with us) banged in about 15G in Italy.
Ronaldo's decline is comparable too for that matter. 29G + 4A in 33 apps vs whatever he's on now. Think Ibra at 40 (after that bad ligament injury with us) banged in about 15G in Italy.
Jamie lying through his teeth on CBS saying Lukaku scored a lot of goals before the injury 
He's barely even doing that now - 3 goals in the last 10 games, most if it not all being starts. They've been against Chesterfield, Al Hilal and Palmeiras.
Lukaku went on to break Inter's single season goals record and surpassed Ronaldo9's total goal haul for Inter while winning serie A. He got the move right for himself
If it was Arsenal I'd have been confident enough we could have won inspite of his presence (like we did against Spurs) but against Liverpool forget it.
Any of us could have told Chelsea to expect that.
It was our dysfunctional team that caused him to be unable to control the ball.
Most of us knew, I was on here trying to tell you guys when you had him.
He scored 15 goals from penalties for crying out loud
Wining goal on Sunday!
This needs a bit of context, what are similar stats for other strikers in the league?
He actually scored less goals than Ronaldo in Serie A. Added 7 of his extra goals in the Europa League and about 15 were penalties. Usual Lukaku really, tagging on goals against cannon fodder in between weeks of doing fcuk all.
For the record Inter's all time season record is 35 goals just for Serie A. In 97/98 Ronaldo scored 34 goals overall. In 19/20 Lukaku scored 34 goals overall. He didn't even beat Ronaldo's Serie A single season high of 25 goals, which he did in less games in what was a much tougher league.
Ole might not have got a lot right, but getting rid of Lukaku was one thing he got spot on.
And he didn’t beat Ronaldo’s record in the league. Despite the league having changed much and become the second highest scoring league in Europe. Icardi scored 29 league goals in 17/18. Lukaku even with penalties never got close to Icardi’s league record.He scored 15 goals from penalties for crying out loud
Away with your silly questions
Pretty sure a top striker needs more than 28 shots on goal by the end of February to be honest. Can’t see what context this has that lessens the headline for Lukaku
Here you have the successful/unsuccessful touch ratio form 2018, his time at United. Compared to 10 of the big 6 strikers back then. He is doing better than 6 of them on ratio, and 4 players are doing better than him. But he was touching less balls in general. Which suggests an inferior on the ball involvement.
The 2 best teams of the leagues at that time, City and Liverpool see their players having many more touches/90 but 3 of them having inferior ratio to his.
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But this is not specific to him. Kai and Werner are averaging the same 1,6 shot per game as Lukaku. Mount, Ziyech and Chilwell are the 3 players with higher shots per game.
It's not peculiar at all considering the caf's opinion on his first touch.
He scored 15 goals from penalties for crying out loud
Bruno has scored a bunch of penalties for united, who cares? Lukaku made a great individual career choice joining Conte at Inter
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Skysports is making fun on him (they also posted it on their site and Youtube). Have never seen a media making fun of a player to that degree. It's like they want to show the world just how BAD Lukaku is. It's not like he missed a penalty in a final.
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Chelsea is a fool for spending so much to "re-buy" him ?
They'd never do this to Harry Kane even if he went an entire season without scoring.
I'm world class like Benzema, Lewandowski etc
Yeah. I dont like Lukaku as a player but this is too much, like a smear campaign. SkySports is basically doing this for views. Why are they so butthurt about Lukaku, they are neither Inter nor United.
It's true for many players. Players who lost possession because of unsuccessful touches > shots
B. Silva
ASM
Mane
Pogba
Ivan Toney
Rapinha
Sterling
Mount
G.Jesus
Lucas
Saka
Dennis
Antonio
ESR
Adama
Laca
Firmino
Broja
From other leagues
Nkunku
Fekir
Wirtz
Depay
Vlahovic
Reus
Bellingham
Diaby
And there are plenty more.
£98m
Werner hardly starts! A right winger and AM having the same amount of shots is a bit of a shocker as well. Especially when they’re disappointments themselves
I’m using this as a guide, rightly or wrongly
https://www.footballcritic.com/amp/article.php?uid=2825
Don't think sky need to do that.
Scapegoating is way over the top, he doesn’t suit our style of play. He's still the same player from Inter last year, in a team playing to his strengths would bang goals in.