"Such a waste of space", "Need to fu****ng go" - Chelsea fans slam 'awful' 28-year-old for disastrous display against Real Madrid
Chelsea fans have taken to Twitter to slam Romelu Lukaku's performance after he missed a golden chance in the team’s 3-1 Champions League quarter-final loss to Real Madrid on Wednesday.
The miss greatly infuriated Chelsea fans, and the club’s supporters took to Twitter to air their opinions about the Belgian. Here is a selection of some of the fan views:
Lukaku is such a waste of space. Fans were just shouting at him to leave the club. “You need to f**king go, leave our club you bag of sh*t”.
Lukaku gotta retire from soccer and become a Tight End
Romelu Lukaku will forever be one of the biggest flops in Premier League history. Just embarrassing.
An absolutely shocking miss from a man worth over 100 million.
Gutted.
What happens if Mendy doesn’t make that error out of HT? Could be a whole different feeling right now. What happens if Lukaku actually puts one of those on net? Idk. A lot of ‘what if’s’ though. Definitely does feel like some of this team’s magic has gone a bit stale.
Lukaku left Italy just to sit on the bench, sad ting, mad ting.
Sometimes I tell myself we used 100 million naira to buy Lukaku. It helps me sleep well at night
100 million for that......Lukaku is crap
All talk walking back to the station of poor performances from Mendy, Christensen, Kante, Jorginho, Mount, Lukaku & Pulisic. Can’t disagree with that one bit and more crucially. That many players playing poorly you have no chance of staying in the game. Really disappointing.
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Despite the loss, Romelu Lukaku produced the most sweat in the match (2.4 litres).
No player has achieved that since 2009/2010 season.
Fountain 💪🏿💦 https://t.co/ZH15w4xt65
The Blues fans and Lukaku have had a tense relationship since his ill-timed Sky Italia interview last year. He had openly spoken about wanting to return to Inter Milan and criticized Thomas Tuchel's tactics. The striker has also been in poor form and has seen his starting berth occupied by Kai Havertz, who has been in phenomenal form of late.
In fact, Havertz scored Chelsea's sole goal in the first leg of the last-eight tie against Madrid. On the night, Lukaku was poor, making only four touches in 27 minutes on the pitch, two of which were passes and two of which were off-target shots, including the missed opportunity.
Blues fans will have every reason to be upset, with the Belgian being their club record signing and yet failing to deliver. Lukaku will hope to respond with goals on the pitch as he continues to endure a tense second-debut season at Stamford Bridge.
Real Madrid's Benzema bangs in three goals against Chelsea
Last month, it was Karim Benzema's stunning 17-minute hat-trick that kicked Paris Saint-Germain out of the Champions League in the Round of 16. Yesterday, the Frenchman scored another hat-trick to give Real Madrid a significant first-leg victory over the Blues at Stamford Bridge.
This has taken Benzema's current goalscoring record to 11 goals in just eight Champions League games, and the star still has the potential to score more in the second leg against the Blues. If he can continue his goalscoring, there's a good chance Benzema will drive Madrid into the finals and maybe win the coveted trophy for them.
No player had scored a hat-trick against the Blues in a European competition until Benzema, which only goes to show how brilliant the Frenchman has been this season. Two stunning headers, along with an interception of a poor pass, saw Benzema score three goals to take the match ball home.