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Why football left Mesut Ozil & 'the specialists' behind

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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Lukaku's Perception of the Player

I don't really understand why it went so badly wrong at Chelsea but I don't think it's because he's a pure number nine. He played exactly the same role for Belgium against Brazil in the court final of a 2018 World Cup where he did almost exactly the same thing. At Inter, well let's not forget two scenes ago he was absolutely fantastic for Inter in a title winning season. And also just to make another point about that Belgian game I was really surprised after Hazard's retirement Lukaku’s taken his number 10 shirt. So he had him wearing number 10 and you know he was wearing number nine the Andrew Trossart who you would say is much more of a number

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