{"id":9999,"date":"2022-02-19T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/19\/embarrassing-romelu-lukaku-stat-surfaces-during-chelseas-clash-with-crystal-palace\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:02:52","slug":"embarrassing-romelu-lukaku-stat-surfaces-during-chelseas-clash-with-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/19\/embarrassing-romelu-lukaku-stat-surfaces-during-chelseas-clash-with-crystal-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing Romelu Lukaku stat surfaces during Chelsea\u2019s clash with Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A frankly staggering statistic, highlighting the current struggles of Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku, has surfaced online on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The stat in question comes on the back of Belgian international Lukaku\u2019s efforts across the opening 45 minutes of the Blues\u2019 Premier League showdown with capital rivals Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed by statisticians Opta, bizarrely, Chelsea\u2019s big-money summer addition managed to touch the ball on a grand total of 2 (yes, TWO) occasion over the entirety of the opening half of play.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but one such touch came upon \u2018Big Rom\u2019 getting proceedings underway in south London, from kick-off.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2 \u2013 Romelu Lukaku had just two touches of the ball in the first half against Crystal Palace, with one of those being the first pass of the game from kick-off. Ghosted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lS4zCe3FQp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lS4zCe3FQp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1495065525025714177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Zaha and co. come close<\/h2>\n<p>As the action inches beyond the hour mark on Saturday, though, Chelsea\u2019s concerns will no doubt stem far beyond the struggles of Thomas Tuchel\u2019s troops to get Lukaku involved.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the Pensioners, fresh off the back of sealing glory at the Club World Cup, somewhat on the back foot against a game Palace outfit led by former Arsenal standout Patrick Vieira.<\/p>\n<p>The scoreline, as things stand, remains locked at 0-0, but the Eagles are growing increasingly into things, with only wastefulness on the part of the likes of Wilfried Zaha and Michael Olise having saved the blushes of an under-performing Chelsea outfit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">45+: Palace break at pace, Olise finds Wilf but he could only bend it beyond the far post ?<\/p>\n<p>? 0-0 ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CPFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CPFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CRYCHE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CRYCHE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VgvN71iIHz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VgvN71iIHz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPFC\/status\/1495062552404889604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/live-streaming-match-previews\/crystal-palace-vs-chelsea-live-streaming-watch-premier-league-online\/\">Crystal Palace vs Chelsea live streaming: Watch Premier League online<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/declan-rice-heaps-major-praise-on-chelseas-mateo-kovacic\/\">Declan Rice heaps major praise on Chelsea\u2019s Mateo Kovacic<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A frankly staggering statistic, highlighting the current struggles of Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku, has surfaced online on Saturday afternoon. The stat in question comes on the back of Belgian international Lukaku\u2019s efforts across the opening 45 minutes of the Blues\u2019 Premier League showdown with capital rivals Crystal Palace. As revealed by statisticians Opta, bizarrely, [&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-9999","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\/9999","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=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}