After the club stepped in, Tuchel reconciled with Lukaku. However, after losing to Manchester City, Tuchel once again criticised Romelu Lukaku's performance, with the Daily Mail commenting that "tensions between the two are at risk of erupting again".
After losing to Manchester City, Chelsea have trailed the Blue Moon by 13 points, meaning they have completely lost hope of winning the title. The Blues' attacking players performed poorly collectively, which resulted in them having just four shots on goal and just seven touches in the opposition penalty area, both of which set the lowest Premier League record since Tuchel took charge.
Of the Blues' attacking players, Romelu Lukaku is the worst performer. In the first half, Lukaku was given a one-handed chance, but after hesitation, he chose to split the ball instead of shoot.
Just one minute into the second half, Mateo Kovacic sent a sharp direct pass and Lukaku's push from the edge of the box was blocked by Emerson, the best chance Chelsea had ever had.
After the match, Tuchel took aim at Lukaku, "he conceded a lot of goals without pressure, and it was in a very promising situation. Of course we want to serve him, but he's also part of the team and sometimes he needs to serve the team as well. ”
"He got the chance to break the bar, so he got the support of his teammates. He's part of the team and we're doing in the front, especially in the first half, we can do better and we need to do better. ”
Of course, Tuchel also criticized other attacking players, "We had 8 or 9 chances to switch between attack and defense in the first half, but we touched the ball 0 inside the opponent's penalty area. It's a big problem and we're not calm enough. ”
In fact, Lukaku's statistics for this campaign are indeed quite bad, with only 1 shot on goal, 1 missed goal opportunity, only 12 passes, and a pass success rate of only 58%. Meanwhile, Lukaku conceded 10 goals in this campaign.
As a centre forward, Lukaku has 0 breakthroughs in this campaign, 7 headers and 0 successes, and The Manchester City players have not even committed a foul on him. At the same time, Stones and Laporte maintain a 100% success rate of the top.
After returning to Chelsea, Lukaku did not perform up to standard, scoring only 4 goals in 18 appearances. Surprisingly, in an interview with Italian television, Lukaku expressed his eagerness to play for Inter again, which caused an uproar, with Tuchel arguing that his words created "unnecessary noise".
After the battle against Liverpool was hidden, Lukaku reconciled with Tuchel and the Belgian publicly apologized. However, starting in the Premier League for the first time after the storm, Lukaku delivered a disappointing answer.
Despite coaching giants like Paris, Tuchel is not very good at dealing with relationships with top players. It is interesting to see what kind of response Lukaku will respond after being shelled by Tuchel.