{"id":17375,"date":"2022-05-07T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/07\/romelu-lukaku-equals-steven-gerrard-and-sets-chelsea-benchmark-with-wolves-brace\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:03:11","slug":"romelu-lukaku-equals-steven-gerrard-and-sets-chelsea-benchmark-with-wolves-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/07\/romelu-lukaku-equals-steven-gerrard-and-sets-chelsea-benchmark-with-wolves-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku equals Steven Gerrard and sets Chelsea benchmark with Wolves brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A pair of altogether noteworthy statistics surrounding the goalscoring endeavours of Chelsea hitman Romelu Lukaku have come to the fore on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel\u2019s troops, of course, were back in action a short time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a concerning defeat at the hands of relegation-battling Everton, the Blues welcomed Wolverhampton Wanderers to Stamford Bridge, eyeing a swift return to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>And, with a full 96 minutes on the clock, all three points is precisely what Chelsea looked set for.<\/p>\n<p>This came with the aforementioned Lukaku having proved the star of the show, opening the game\u2019s scoring from the penalty spot early in the 2nd-half, before doubling his tally two minutes later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two for Romelu Lukaku! ?<\/p>\n<p>His first league goals in 2022. \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>? via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSportsSoccer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSportsSoccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QajX4hm0gj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QajX4hm0gj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1522960160532086786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wolves, though, simply refused to accept defeat, first pulling one back ten minutes from time courtesy of substitute Trincao, before captain Conor Coady came up clutch deep into time added on, nodding home to secure a share of the spoils for Bruno Lage\u2019s visitors.<\/p>\n<h2>Gerrard equalled<\/h2>\n<p>Despite his side\u2019s eventual collapse, though, as alluded to above, brace-hitter Lukaku, on Saturday, nevertheless secured for himself an altogether impressive pair of benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>First up, it was revealed that the Belgian international has equalled Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard in the all-time Premier League goalscoring charts, with 120 strikes to his name:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Romelu Lukaku has now scored as many Premier League goals as Steven Gerrard (120).<\/p>\n<p>He has as many PL titles too. ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1522959333830852608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but, despite the frequent and frankly ruthless criticism aimed in his direction across the campaign to date, Lukaku also now stands as Chelsea\u2019s outright top goalscorer in 2021\/22:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">14 \u2013 With his brace against Wolves, Romelu Lukaku is now Chelsea\u2019s outright top goalscorer in all competitions this season with 14 goals. There were just 138 seconds between his first and second goals today. Quickfire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2CyScc9rTs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2CyScc9rTs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1522959937835773952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/cesar-azpilicueta-has-an-agreement-with-barcelona-despite-chelsea-wanting-him-to-stay\/\">Cesar Azpilicueta \u2018has an agreement\u2019 with Barcelona despite Chelsea wanting him to stay<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/top-stories\/official-chelsea-set-to-complete-takeover-in-late-may\/\">Official: Chelsea set to complete takeover in late May<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A pair of altogether noteworthy statistics surrounding the goalscoring endeavours of Chelsea hitman Romelu Lukaku have come to the fore on Saturday afternoon. Thomas Tuchel\u2019s troops, of course, were back in action a short time ago. Fresh off a concerning defeat at the hands of relegation-battling Everton, the Blues welcomed Wolverhampton Wanderers to Stamford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-17375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}