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LUKAKU FACING BATTLE TO EARN FINAL RECALL
Evening Standard
|February 23, 2022
TUCHEL CASTS DOUBT OVER STAR’S CHELSEA FUTURE
ROMELU LUKAKU has been given four days to convince Thomas Tuchel he deserves a recall for Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final.
Chelsea’s club-record £97.5million striker’s Wembley hopes are hanging in the balance after he was dropped for last night’s 2-0 Champions League win over Lille.
And Tuchel cast further doubt over his future, insisting the Belgium international has not met his demands of work-rate or intensity in recent weeks.
Lukaku managed just seven touches in Saturday’s 1-0 win against Crystal Palace and was promptly dropped last night. Tuchel claimed he was protecting his player, but made it clear the 28-year-old had come up short of late.
“It was not the moment after the [Palace] match where everybody was focused on the few touches that he had to put him right into the next fire,” said the Chelsea manager (right, last night). “It was the moment to take a step back. That was the decision and that’s it.
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