Jamie Carragher says Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku does not need the affection from boss Thomas Tuchel, he simply wishes to “go out and play well”.
Chelsea suffered a disastrous three-1 domestic defeat towards Real Madrid on Wednesday night time. Their Champions League hopes are dangling through a thread after the zone-very last first-leg setback. Indeed Tuchel in reality wrote off their possibilities of overturning the tie inside the go back leg on the Bernabeu.
It became a night time to neglect for Chelsea as an entire. Even extra so for Lukaku who started out at the bench and then missed a sitter while he got here on.
Had he taken it, the £97.5million striker might have hauled Chelsea again in to the tie. Instead he opened himself as much as even greater grievance from fanatics and pundits alike.
Speaking on CBS Sports after the sport, Micah Richards attempted to defend the striker. Richards felt it might be unfair to kick Lukaku whilst he become down and he needed some love from Tuchel.
“Today, he came on and he ignored a sitter,” Richards said after the sport. “It’ll be on all the socials and every person might be taking the mick out of him. He’s a pinnacle nice player, he’s simply going thru a tough time at this second.”
However Carragher became no longer as sympathetic and says Lukaku needs to step up inside the huge moments. The 28-year-vintage has scored nearly 200 league goals at club stage at some stage in his career. He became a revelation at Everton and Inter Milan specially.
It has no longer long past as properly on account that returning to Chelsea. He has controlled 12 goals, five within the Premier League, in 36 appearances and is struggling to earn a begin.
Carragher accepts he's a nice player but cannot be classed as ‘elite’. The former Liverpool defender also says it's miles all the way down to Lukaku now not Tuchel to show the scenario.
“I always sense each time we’ve spoken about Lukaku, he gets quite a few goals but there’s constantly been a ‘but’,” Carragher advised CBS Sports. “Even his report in the Premier League, if you study the teams, it become by no means in opposition to the biggest groups.
