{"id":400662,"date":"2021-10-04T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=400662"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:23:10","slug":"epl-i-hate-to-be-called-a-goal-poacher-lukaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=400662","title":{"rendered":"EPL: I hate to be called a goal poacher &#8211; Lukaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea striker, Romelu Lukaku, has said he hates to be called a \u201cgoal poacher\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgium international thinks he is at his best when facing opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku has scored 255 times in club football and 67 goals for his country.<\/p>\n<p>But the 28-year-old is eager to point out that he is about much more than hitting the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>He told UEFA\u2019s official website: \u201cThe way I\u2019m built \u2013 I\u2019m quite big \u2013 everybody thinks I\u2019m a sort of target man: just holding up the ball and being a goal poacher. But I\u2019ve never played that way and I hate it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest strength is that I\u2019m dangerous when I\u2019m facing towards the goal, because that\u2019s when I rarely make wrong choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I pass the ball, I know where I have to position myself in the box. I can do a bit of everything and in some games when I know there is a lot of space behind the defence, I play differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I\u2019m so productive [in front of goal] is because I can do a bit of everything.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea striker, Romelu Lukaku, has said he hates to be called a \u201cgoal poacher\u201d. The Belgium international thinks he is at his best when facing opponents. Lukaku has scored 255 times in club football and 67 goals for his country. But the 28-year-old is eager to point out that he is about much more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400663,"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":[1397,4459],"class_list":["post-400662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-lukaku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400662","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=400662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}