“Unluckiest player this Euros”, “Needs to go for prayers” - Fans worried about Belgium star’s luck despite 2-0 win over Romania at Euro 2024

Belgium revived their Euro 2024 campaign with a 2-0 defeat of Romania in their second group fixture on Saturday (June 22). But fans were worried about Romelu Lukaku after the striker endured more tough luck.

Youri Tielemans and Kevin De Bruyne were the scorers for the Red Devils on the night as Domenico Tedesco's side brushed off their opening day loss to Slovakia to climb to the top of Group E.

In the 63rd minute, Lukaku had the ball in the back of the net, but following a VAR review, he was deemed offside in the build-up, and the goal was ruled out.

Since the start of the tourmament, this is the third time the AS Roma hitman saw a goal disallowed by the VAR. It's more than any other player at UEFA Euro 2024.

With 14 goals in the qualifiers, Lukaku was the most prolific scorer and was touted to repeat the feat at the main event too, but he has been unable to score in two games.

Fans expressed their concern over his poor luck on X. AFC Ajax wrote:

ESPN posted a humorous quote by a journalist called Duncan Alexander, who wrote:

Some more reactions to Lukaku's disallowed goal include:

"Lukaku needs to go for prayers," said Dr. George in a hilarious remark

Footy Humour shared a funny meme:

"unluckiest player this euros 😭" claimed elsdawg.

"Lukaku most enemy is VAR," wrote Loretta Crypto.

"It gets to the point where you start to feel sorry for the lad" said Will.

"This man wins the disallowed golden boot" quipped Divvy.Bet.

"He should come back to his home country and have a chat with the elders" wrote Sean.

"Only him all the time" said #31.

Belgium play their final group fixture against Ukraine, whereas Romania take on Slovakia, on Wednesday (June 26), with all four sides competing for a place in the Round of 16,.

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Euro 2024 Group E takes massive turn after Belgium's win over Romania

The Group E of Euro 2024 is turning out to be the most interesting of the championship: all four sides - Belgium, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine - are tied with three points each after two games, and all stand a chance to reach the Round of 16.

Following a shock 1-0 loss to Slovakia in their opening game, the Red Devils recovered to put up a strong display, which earned them all three points. On Friday, Ukraine showed tremendous fighting spirit to turn around a 1-0 deficit and beat Slovakia 2-1.

The race for the Euro 2024 Round of 16 is wide open heading into the final match of the group stage, and it will be interesting to see which two sides progress. Will Belgium be one of them?