{"id":397296,"date":"2021-09-25T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=397296"},"modified":"2021-09-25T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:24:11","slug":"epl-tuchel-gives-verdict-on-lukakus-display-in-chelseas-1-0-loss-to-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=397296","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Tuchel gives verdict on Lukaku\u2019s display in Chelsea\u2019s 1 &#8211; 0 loss to Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel, has given his verdict on Romelu Lukaku\u2019s performance in his side\u2019s Premier League 1-0 defeat to Manchester City on Saturday afternoon at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea suffered their first defeat of the new Premier League season following Gabriel Jesus\u2019 second-half strike to give Pep Guardiola\u2019s side all three points.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku failed to register a shot on goal against Man City during the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>But Tuchel believes Lukaku, who has scored four goals in seven games since returning to the west London club, was not to blame for Chelsea\u2019s struggles in attack against City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is necessary to talk about Romelu [Lukaku] struggling today when we reached Romelu the attack was already half over because there were not enough people and there was simply no belief and connection,\u201d Tuchel said at his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a team problem, not an individual problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel, has given his verdict on Romelu Lukaku\u2019s performance in his side\u2019s Premier League 1-0 defeat to Manchester City on Saturday afternoon at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea suffered their first defeat of the new Premier League season following Gabriel Jesus\u2019 second-half strike to give Pep Guardiola\u2019s side all three points. Lukaku failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,12181],"class_list":["post-397296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-thomas-touchel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}