Beating Manchester City last season to win the Champions League, Tuchel's Chelsea were highly acclaimed, and although the team's front line has been criticized, after bringing in Romelu Lukaku, it was still favored by fans before the start of the season. However, half a season has passed, Chelsea's frontcourt problems have still not been solved, their goal efficiency in the league is still not high, and Lukaku, who has high hopes for the team and fans, seems to have been unable to find the form of the Serie A period, and can only contribute when facing weak teams. In the just-concluded Club World Cup match, Lukaku, who has not scored in five consecutive games, finally scored one goal to help the team reach the final.
With the Winter Olympics and Premier League matches underway, and the Club World Cup opponents not too strong, the club world cup semi-final did not attract much attention. Chelsea, which is basically the main team, actually does not have an absolute advantage in the game, facing the AFC Champions League champion Riyadh Crescent, who is far less powerful than his own, the whole game has given the opponent too many opportunities in the offensive and defensive brightness press, and only Lukaku scored a goal to help the team win the game. Although it is already very good news to win the final, Chelsea's overall attacking state and Romelu Lukaku's performance still have a lot to discuss.
Before scoring this goal, Lukaku's last goal was against Chesterfield in the FA Cup a month ago, and the two opponents have one thing in common, that is, they are not too strong. Looking at the goals Lukaku has scored for Chelsea this season, they have basically scored against weak teams, just in terms of 5 goals in the league, the goals scored were two times against Aston Villa and scored 3 goals, arsenal scored 1 goal against Arsenal at the beginning of the season, 1 goal against Brighton, the rest of the games did not score goals, and against Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United and other teams are not particularly good.
The reason for this is nothing more than the use of Lukaku's tactical system in Tuchel, Lukaku himself is actually very struggling in the position of fulcrum center, but Chelsea's winger group has decided that Lukaku can play a relatively limited position, Tuchel can not give Lukaku inter milan era authority, the two sides will become very embarrassed. At present, Tuchel has not found a suitable solution to this problem, the team still cannot find the optimal solution on the offensive end, which is also the biggest problem facing Chelsea, in addition to Romelu Lukaku, they need to find more suitable players in the transfer market to make changes.
Since his debut, Lukaku's fixed-point attack ability is actually not strong, and now it has not been changed, it seems that the possibility of change in the future is not very large, and the space for Chelsea to change has become very small. If this situation continues, the possibility of the team wanting to be promoted is also very limited, and Lukaku's sense of belonging to Chelsea is very low, and even made a farce of leaving the team, and also encountered the displeasure of his teammates in the team's dressing room, which seems to have no hope at Chelsea. The most crucial point is this season's Champions League, if Chelsea do not do well, Lukaku is likely to lose his place at Chelsea. Of course, the possibility of the team replacing Tuchel as the head coach is not ruled out, depending on how Chelsea chooses.