Romelu Lukaku determined ‘not’ to score
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This game will have to be named ‘The tale of Romelu Lukaku’s missed chances’. The 22-year-old – who has been increasingly linked to some of Europe’s elite clubs – will have done no good to increase his market value based on his performance on Saturday.
A saved penalty and a plethora of opportunities gone begging in the last 20 minutes seriously questions his credibility as a big-game player. Despite a wonderful season for the Toffees, this particular game has easily been his most frustrating in his career.
He fluffed a couple of chances early in the game despite beating Chris Smalling on both occasions – one was headed off the line by Wayne Rooney while the other was saved by De Gea.
In the last 20 minutes, he found himself guilty of missing more opportunities to win the game for Everton, including a couple of instances where he found himself one-on-one with the Spanish goalkeeper, but headed one wide and couldn’t connect sweetly with the other.
The Belgian manager Marc Wilmots will also be a concerned figure looking at his frontline striker’s display yesterday after already having to deal with the pedestrian form of Christian Benteke and Divock Origi’s injury.
