Always a shame’Nevin dissatisfied Chelsea player got lower attention from the media than Lukaku last weekend
Pat Nevin raised his frustration at Kepa Arrizabalaga’s penalty heroics for Chelsea against Plymouth Argyle being overshadowed by the media’s review of Romelu Lukaku.
Writing for the club website, the former winger noted his dissatisfaction towards Lukaku unwittingly taking the spotlight down from the Spanish shot- breach.
Kepa clearly made the captions by precluding Plymouth from scoring a 118th-m'inute spot- kick last Saturday that would ’ve taken the FA Cup tie to penalties.
With the scores position after normal time, Marcos Alonso transferred the European titleholders ahead just before the interval in the fresh half an hour.
Yet, Malang Sarr’s sloppy reverse pass and indeed sloppier challenge blessed Plymouth a golden occasion to equalise.
Ryan Hardie held the ball in his hands and placed it down 12 yards from thing.
As the world held its breath, Hardie vocally stroked his shot into the thankful arms of Kepa, who to his credit read where the trouble was going.
Despite this significant moment, some news outlets decided to concentrate on Lukaku’s lack of involvement, rather than the Chelsea goalkeeper’s participation.
Actually, the striker had another day to forget, managing just 31 traces in the game and only hitting the target formerly.
Still, as Nevin correctly refocused out, the autumn should n’t have been about the Blue Belgian.
“ As everyone knows, the goalies infrequently get the captions and indeed at the weekend there were far further column elevation devoted to Romelu Lukaku not scoring, indeed as we had those 41 sweats on thing, than there were about Kepa saving the day at the death,” he said.
“ It's always a shame because when a keeper does make a mistake you can go your nethermost bone he'll be the focus of attention, occasionally for weeks and months latterly.”
Kepa knows full well the goods an error can have on a player in his position.
Throughout Frank Lampard’s reign, he was scouted for repeated blunders and slip-ups.
It eventually bring the 27- time-old his number one jersey, claimed ultimately by Edouard Mendy.
Thomas Tuchel’s appearance has reversed the fortunes of Mendy’s understudy, but not Lukaku’s.
He simply isn't the centre-forward Chelsea acquired from Inter Milan last summer for a club- record figure.
This could be down to a number of factors, but in the end, he just does n’t look like the correct fit for the Blues.
We hope it works out for Romelu. Sorely, some effects are simply not meant to be.
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