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He was fantastic against Brazil in my opinion. I also think he would have had a couple more goals if Hazard hadn't developed a weird obsession with trying to score from stupid angles.
Let's just agree we don't see eye to eye, to put it mildly.
Against France he had 21 touches in the whole game. He struggles badly when teams sit in and we face that a lot in the league. That’s why I don’t really expect him to win the golden boot or get close to it. I hope he does because we’ll probably win the league if he does.
Ironic that the previous criticism was that he is a flat track bully. Teams sat deep against us an awful lot last year and he got 29 goals. If he was our penalty taker (like most top strikers) he could have been closer to 40. I am not blindly optimistic about our squad but this position is one of the least of our worries.
He got something like 16 in the league, a 1 in 2 ratio. He wasn’t even close to Salah or Kane in the PL.
16 league goals
5 in the Champions League, 5 in the FA Cup (played a huge part in us getting to the final.)
Salah broke the Premier League scoring record. Kane is probably the best striker in the world.
Yes he did well in the cups, not so great in the league. Hopefully he can improve next season (and the whole team for that matter)
People keep saying his teammates (KDB, Hazard) didn’t pass to him in many instances as a counter argument but whoever played football knows that when you don’t trust your teammate to handle the pass/situation even if he’s in a better position you go another route/take the shot yourself essentially playing percentages. I never seen it with them on a club level (avoiding passing to certain player) as Hazard even has been labeled too selfless at times and KDB loves his pass, it doesn’t make any sense. However, what is more realistic is that they really wanted to win and simply couldn’t trust Lukaku in a lot situations as they know his abilities/shortcomings better than we do and opted for options what they felt would give them the best chance of scoring. These are professionals footballers we’re talking about not some butthurt teenagers and there’s literally little evidence to suggest these guys would put their own glory above the team.
Drogba had a number of seasons where he scored between 10 and 20. I believe 06/07 was the only outlier in his time under Mourinho where he scored 30+.
So you think it is more likely that they didn't trust their countries all time leading scorer (who is still 25) in scoring positions than that they wanted to go for glory in the World Cup?
In a lot of situations KDB would pass it to Hazard or vice versa (or waiting for each other to open up) when Lukaku might have been in a better position and I only seen once Hazard going for it himself. Hence, you can’t say they were looking for personal glory as they seemed to be fine with putting another teammate through.
KDB passed to Lukaku loads of times. Hazard was greedy and took the glory option several times, and failed.
The numbers look similar but have to say the proportion of their goals leaned more towards the league. Benzema had this crazy season when he scored and assisted 21 each ( all comps, cause they matter you know).
That's what I saw too.
Well then that’s why it’s being pointed out.
And that's largely down to the lack of support he gets. Lukaku was the only competent attacker we had last season and gets far too much stick for his lack of pl goals, our attackers as a whole largely disappointing bar him i'd say.
Bit of a spawny bum save? But still. Kasper is not a crap keeper. For me, I want Romelu to get 3 or 4 of these chances per game and if he's missing all of them, then we have a problem.
