Analysing Lukaku's 7 touches

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 20 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
I don't get Tuchel and his style of play with Lukaku.

If he picks Lukaku then he has to get the other players in the team playing to his strengths. Tuchl has to take blame here whilst he continues to pick him.
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Not sure what more he can do, he plays with wing backs, has swapped the two wingers next to him, we play several crosses into the box each game. He’s lazy and doesn’t move enough or create space. At first I thought it could be service but whoever we play with him it’s the same and if stems from his lack of mobility. He cannot hold up the ball and play wide and then move again like he did against arsenal. Seems like he’s just unwilling to come to the ball.
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there are countless occasions when the likes of Havertz and Ziyech are not punching the ball inro tim where he has his back to gaol. Shearer just on the Palace game highligted 5 examples. If they are not going to do that then i see no point in Tuchel selecting Lukaku. That is is major strength and we are not playing to it.

It is no wonder he is mot making the movemnet that he needs to when he feels he isnt going to get it.

Blame needs to be shared across coaching and the team.

comment by Devil (U6522)
posted 7 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 12 hours, 52 minutes ago

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
I don't get Tuchel and his style of play with Lukaku.

If he picks Lukaku then he has to get the other players in the team playing to his strengths. Tuchl has to take blame here whilst he continues to pick him.
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Not sure what more he can do, he plays with wing backs, has swapped the two wingers next to him, we play several crosses into the box each game. He’s lazy and doesn’t move enough or create space. At first I thought it could be service but whoever we play with him it’s the same and if stems from his lack of mobility. He cannot hold up the ball and play wide and then move again like he did against arsenal. Seems like he’s just unwilling to come to the ball.
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He's playing like the team has to adapt for him, the problem with that is we're the CL holders! There's an onus on him to respect that & work towards fitting into their way of playing, as well as the manager working towards a compromise to extract the most from him within that framework.

I don't wanna be negative cos I REALLY wanted this to work being the sentimental fool I am, but unless Tuchel leaves (which obviously isn't going to happen) I don't see how this gets better unless Lukaku's attitude changes.
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the team are not playing for him either though. they never look to play it into him early. As i mentioned before just look at the piece that Shearer did on MOTD.

there were at least 5 occasions where he could have been played in but as usual it went sideways.

If that is the style that Tuchel wants to play then we should never have bought him and he should not be playing him.

Tonight summed up the difference. Havertz not even a real striker and more involved than lukaku has been all year infront of the same line up,

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 49 minutes ago
Tonight summed up the difference. Havertz not even a real striker and more involved than lukaku has been all year infront of the same line up,
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I think it somes up the way we play and therefore the suitability of Havertz to that system.although i would caveat that when comparing CL football agst PL football.

But anyway tonight just proves my point that Tuchel is fecking it up by playing Lukaku and not changing the way we play. either don't pick him or if you do change the style and get the the others players to adpt when he is on the pitch. It really shouldn't be difficult to play in two diffrent stryles and this is the first sign of weakness from Tuchel since being at Chelsea..

We will have to agree to disagree on that one biggish. It takes two to tango but lukaku has to lead

Playing two totally different styles for the benefit of one player is impractical, unless you change it up for a big one off match isn't not an efficient way to train a team. If Lukaku was incapable of being a complete forward that could fit into any way of playing competently than at 100mil he's simply a poor signing. But the player he was a Inter was better than this - looked like a complete forward.

The only thing Tuchel hasn't really done that would be a reasonable compromise is play with two strikers to make him feel like he's playing in a familiar system. Werner even kind of replicates the Martinez partnership - he attacks the left channel, Lukaku attacks the right.

You know thinking about it playing with two strikers should have the same effect on Werner, as Lukaku kind of replicates his partnership with Poulsen at Leipzig

People shouldn’t have looked at him flat track bullying at Inter, they should have looked at him being a lamppost at United. Chelsea didn’t even get the United version.

We've got the Chelsea CF flop version, no-one's immune. I really hope we buy Haaland, will be hilarious