DBasia.news – Romelu Lukaku’s second debut with Chelsea was a success. The Blues manager, Thomas Tuchel even believes his current squad is qualified enough to compete in the title race.
Lukaku was immediately introduced as a starter when Chelsea traveled to Arsenal’s headquarters at the Emirates Stadium in the Premier League continued, Sunday (22/8). He even contributed one goal in the visitors’ 2-0 win.
Lukaku immediately played an important role in Chelsea’s attack scheme. He acts as a wall as well as spearhead in a 3-4-2-1 formation.
Lukaku broke into Arsenal’s goal when the game had only been running for 15 minutes. His flick using Reece James’s low pass made Bernd Leno helpless.
Lukaku also played an important role in the process of Chelsea’s second goal. His movement outwit the Arsenal defense so James became unmarked and beat Leno easily.
Tuchel seems very satisfied with Chelsea’s performance with Lukaku in it. He even signaled his team’s transfer activity was over.
“I’m very happy with our squad and the alternatives we have. It’s not a squad that’s too big, we lost Christian Pulisic today and that means everyone is in the squad,” Tuchel said after the game.
“We may not have the biggest squad but we have a very competitive squad in all positions. This is necessary because we play a lot of competitions and there is the Club World Cup in December.”
Tuchel seems to have found the best and ideal composition in his squad. Chelsea now does have two players with the same level in each position.
This condition is very important so that a team is able to maintain its level of play until the end of the season. Naturally, if Chelsea is now the strongest candidate to win the Premier League.
“If we want to compete, we need this level. But at the same time, we are a strong group, this is probably the key for the last half year.”
“It’s a challenge for the team and for me to create this atmosphere again. If we can do that, we can achieve more than we have.”
Chelsea have actually been linked with Sevilla defender Jules Kunde. Both parties are said to have entered into a personal agreement.
But now those rumors just disappeared. Chelsea may cancel his intention because of the attractive appearance of Trevoh Chalobah.