It has been more than half a season since Lukaku joined Chelsea, from the initial expectations to the current embarrassing and slightly embarrassing situation, Chelsea has undoubtedly used Real Madrid to buy Eden Hazard's money, bought Lukaku, the result is obvious, Lukaku is currently unable to adapt to Chelsea.
In 30 games and 23 starts (in all competitions), Lukaku scored 11 goals for Chelsea, and although it is shabby compared to inter statistics, he is still Chelsea's most goalscoring striker this season, but no Chelsea fans will think so: Lukaku's deal has been successful so far.
Lukaku took the bench
If it is not successful, it is naturally a failure.
For most Chelsea fans, the performance on the pitch is on the one hand, the performance on the pitch is on the other hand, as a player who has played for Chelsea twice, it is right to ask for a minimum of loyalty.
But when Lukaku joined the franchise for less than half a season, because of the difference in the manager's football philosophy and the current lineup, he gave a burst of output to the media, emphasizing his loyalty to Inter, which can be described as a drama, which not only hurt the feelings of Chelsea fans, but also made Inter fans think that they were used with guns.
Because when it came to Chelsea, Lukaku gave up Inter without much hesitation.
This has also become Lukaku's most failed place at Chelsea so far! In addition, Lukaku's poor performance on the field also temporarily deprived him of the opportunity to save his heart.
On the field like a humble, off the field is a personal essence, Lukaku's performance, but also let many neutral fans call out to be deceived.
Talk about Lukaku's performance on the pitch and Chelsea's conundrum!
1, this tank is a bit soft in the Premier League
Lukaku, who is more than 1.91 meters tall and weighs more than 90 kilograms, is definitely a "heavy" weapon in football, and considering that he has occasionally shown a good pivot role in Serie A and the Belgian national team, Chelsea finally played his idea.
He did not match Tuchel's tactics
In Tuchel's chelsea, every player has his own profession, even the striker needs to contribute to the team's defence, and Lukaku is the fulcrum of the team's attack.
Why can Chelsea come to such a conclusion? Because in Serie A, Lukaku's fulcrum is really ok: he can get 1.3 successful battles per game, and in the case of no jump, Lukaku can get 3.1 successful ground confrontations per game, which also means that Lukaku can get an average of more than 4 successful confrontations per game!
At the same time, the success rate of Lukaku's confrontation can reach 46%, which is also a figure worth looking forward to.
But no one could have predicted that Lukaku's success in Serie A had changed in Chelsea, completely devoid of the shadow of "Black Kong".
After leaving Inter, Lukaku felt as if he had lost his main heart
Just as Lukaku said that he thought Lautaro Martinez had died, the two of them left each other, and it seems that there is really some discomfort, and Lukaku at Chelsea has not only lost his dominance in Serie A, but also Lautaro Martinez in Serie A.
In this season's Premier League matches, Lukaku has a 38% success rate on the ground, and in many games, Premier League defenders are like Van Dijk per capita, able to beat Lukaku.
At the same time, when Chelsea play against most teams, opponents tend to adopt more extreme conservative strategies, and Lukaku's biggest weapon is really not much to use when running up and sprinting.
As the competition in the league and cup competition became more and more fierce, Tuchel gradually lost patience with Lukaku and turned to the more familiar play of the players, after all, Tuchel had won the Champions League with such a lineup!
2. Lukaku, who is difficult to shoot
The situation facing Chelsea and Romelu Lukaku is very complicated, first, Lukaku, who cannot adapt to the Premier League, can only slowly find his form with the passage of time, and secondly, Abu is not in a good situation now, although the British sanctions stick is hanging in the air, but this day does not know when it will fall.
Abu would leave before Lukaku
The difficulties chelsea encounter today will inevitably affect the atmosphere within the team, in the past nearly 20 years, Abu is the goalkeeper of Chelsea's bottom line, no matter how much money the team spends, what kind of players, coaches, and promotion of the team, Abu will spare no effort to support the team.
Abu single-handedly created Chelsea's big club position, and just when he was about to reap the rewards (Chelsea has been blowing up talent in recent years, providing England with a large number of international players), he encountered a crisis that could be forced to lose the club.
Chelsea will not only be affected in the mentality of the players, but even the club's future reinforcements and personnel selection will be greatly impacted, and no Chelsea fans know whether No Sister has the leisure to deal with the problem of Lukaku in the last period of Chelsea.
After Chelsea spent 100 million euros to reintroduce Romelu Lukaku, it was impossible to send someone away after a year, and Lukaku's careful thinking about returning to The Rocago is completely whimsical.
Now, the final answer to Lukaku's problem may be whether Tuchel can create a system for him in the summer window this year.
3. Can't get support, or is there a decline in shooting skills?
In last season's Serie A, Lukaku scored a total of 24 goals, and he averaged 2.7 shots per game, including 1.3 shots per game, with a goal rate of about 25%, which is a good season data for his career.
But at Chelsea, everything has changed, Lukaku can only average 1.6 shots per game, which is 1.1 times lower than his Serie A, and naturally, his shooting on target data has also dropped sharply: 0.6 shots per game, not even once, how can Lukaku score more goals?
Lukaku's data comparison for the last two seasons!
As you can clearly see, Lukaku's decline in Chelsea's stats is very obvious!
In addition to the shooting data we mentioned above, the number of passes and the number of key passes per game have dropped significantly, and there is no doubt that Lukaku is justified in his opinion that he cannot get more support.
From a statistical point of view: Lukaku under Inter Milan averaged 35.4 touches and 20.4 passes per game, while at Chelsea, Lukaku only touched the ball 22.1 times per game and only 13.2 passes per game! Not being able to get the ball, not being able to distribute the ball, is the most embarrassing situation Lukaku faces at Chelsea.
But at the same time, either Lukaku's confidence has declined or his form has slipped, and in inter's last season, Lukaku was still able to maintain a 25% goal scoring rate, and when faced with a great opportunity, Lukaku has a 51% chance of sending the ball into the net.
At Chelsea, Lukaku's goal scoring rate has slipped to 18% and he has only 40% of his ability to take advantage of great chances!
Lukaku's performance in the last 15 matches
In fact, from The perspective of Lukaku's recent appearances, Lukaku will either not get the opportunity to play, or will get the opportunity to start, in fact, Tuchel still gave him a lot of opportunities, 9 of the 15 recent games, Lukaku has played the whole game!
But in the last 10 matches, Lukaku has only scored 3 goals, and two goals are scored against Riyadh Crescent and Palmeiras, two non-major league teams, and the other is in the FA Cup, against Championship side Luton!
Even if you calculate it in detail, you will find that Lukaku's last 4 goals have been scored against non-five league teams and non-Premier League teams, and he has completely lost the heroism of scoring 4 goals in the early 4 games of the league.
Conclusion: Chelsea brought in the wrong players at the wrong time
It is normal and reasonable for Chelsea to want to strengthen the team after winning the Champions League, but unfortunately Lukaku came at the wrong time.
After winning the Champions League, everyone's idea is more to maintain the tactics of success, rather than to change everyone's playing style with the arrival of Lukaku.
This season, Lukaku's average number of shots per game is only the fourth in Chelsea, and Mount, Werner and Ziyech are all higher than Lukaku's average of shots per game, and Chelsea players prefer a multi-core squad rather than a single-core or dual-core squad led by Lukaku!
Lukaku failed
For chelsea members who have become Champions League champions, without Lukaku, they can already win the Champions League, why must they become Lukaku's "green leaf"?
For Tuchel, what he needs to coordinate is not only the incompatibility between the team's tactics and Lukaku, but also the need to persuade the players to integrate Lukaku into the group and make Lukaku "fierce", but at present, the effect is not good.
For Romelu Lukaku, all he needs to do is work hard, work hard, prove himself with practical hard work, but for Chelsea, who are caught up in the buying and selling storm, everything seems to be less important.