People seem to think the worry is after one miss Morata. Morata has missed several of these 'easy' chances since coming to Chelsea, not just one or two off games. 

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

People seem to think the worry is after one miss Morata. Morata has missed several of these 'easy' chances since coming to Chelsea, not just one or two off games. 

3 against Arsenal, 1 against West Ham late on, and I remember a sitter of a header he missed early in the season (think he scored a header later in the match, maybe it was against Leicester?)

 

Any others I'm forgetting?

For comparisons sake, does anyone know of any examples of 1 on 1 misses or sitters missed by Lukaku this season?  Using him as an example just because it was clear he was our other striker target last summer.

5 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

I'm not sure that concept is understood much in here   I wouldn't want to bet my house on any one of these ridiculous posts actually being someone just pissing about, tongue in cheek.

Would you?

Yeah, ok fair point  just couldn’t imagine someone saying that seriously. My mates a united fan and he rips Lukaku more than me, he’s been p1sh for them.

2 hours ago, mwblue10 said:

3 against Arsenal, 1 against West Ham late on, and I remember a sitter of a header he missed early in the season (think he scored a header later in the match, maybe it was against Leicester?)

 

Any others I'm forgetting?

For comparisons sake, does anyone know of any examples of 1 on 1 misses or sitters missed by Lukaku this season?  Using him as an example just because it was clear he was our other striker target last summer.

4 against Arsenal. He's missed 14 clear cut chances this season according to Opta.

 

Most people are comparing him to Diego and Didier, not Lukaku.

14 hours ago, barak81 said:

Absolutely can't believe some of the drvial on here...

Neither drogba or Costa were perfect in a "one on one" situation. Drobga only managed 16 goals in his first season with us, same again in his second, and I remember him getting absolute pellets, despite us winning the league both years.  

Costa does not score the goal Morata did against untied, and probably doesn't get the one against Madrid either. Both great players but neither of them perfect. Morata is a great player, he takes that finishing up a level and he's world class, it's that simple, but even now he has been massive for us this season and won us a lot of big points. 

 

how is this for some predatory finishing

 

 

 

You could see how often it happened barak by the amount of videos you found of Costa blundering it. You had to chuck in a Nando one because obviously couldn't find any others of Costa! Also, look at the scores on both of those videos. The first video he was blown offside and the second he went in with someone else. Let's see some videos of the ones he didn't miss, I'm sure there are plenty.

As far as goals are concerned (and mostly anything else) - Costa was streets ahead! Will that ever change? Will the fanbase and club wait while Morata settles? I highly doubt it!

Still looks dreadful. Worrying times. 

He’s reminding me more and more of the Chelsea Torres lately. He’s completely out of form at the moment at such a critical time in the season! Hopefully he can score at the weekend and get some of his early season confidence back. 

Not a good performance from Morata tonight - Azpi put in a fair number of crosses I thought but he didn't look as hungry to get on the end of them unlike earlier in the season.

Hold up play was ok but he isn't scoring and certainly not creating goals either by linking up with Hazard etc...

I agree with the above, this is a very concerning run of form and he needs goals quickly to turn his confidence up.

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

4 against Arsenal. He's missed 14 clear cut chances this season according to Opta.

 

Most people are comparing him to Diego and Didier, not Lukaku.

If you read my post, I explained why I used Lukaku, another reason is because he is currently playing in the same league.

Also, most of the complaints have been his struggles with just the keeper to beat (1on1's when he's put through on goal) and a couple sitters in front of goal, so your stat of 14 missed clear cut chances may not all fall in those categories (they also could all be, to be fair)

Confidence is key.

10 hours ago, sabin6912 said:

He’s reminding me more and more of the Chelsea Torres lately. He’s completely out of form at the moment at such a critical time in the season! Hopefully he can score at the weekend and get some of his early season confidence back. 

That's exactly how he has looked last few games. Very concerning 'cos we are reliant on him to produce and at the moment his performances don't justify selection.

We're a bit harsh on him in my opinion. Yes he's missed a few too many big opportunities but we shouldn't give up on him yet.

Our overall play has been pretty terrible this season, most games it's just him and hazard who are responsible for creating our attack. I think any striker would struggle in our current side. He's no Drogba that can hold the ball up between 3 defenders, nor will he ever be. If that's what we wanted we shouldve singed someone else.

We have seen that he's a good footballer, but he isn't getting to show that very often because there is no support. Has he been a bit clumsy these last games? Yes he has, but he's also shown he is good on the ball. Our current form and/or tactics are to blame just as much as Morata in my opinion.

He's clearly off his game, but strikers are fickle. He was very dangerous early in the season, and just seems to be going through a rough patch. The difference in our attack between when he was on and when Conte bizarrely subbed him for Batman though is night and day. Morata never stops fighting (even if he does still fall over too much), he's always there tussling and creating problems. He'll come good. 

Some fan are spoilt and fickle I remember fan's calling Drogba a flop first couple of seasons look how that turned out....form is temporarily class permanent

He is not cutting the tapas right now but watch him stick 3 past Leicester this weekend. 

1 hour ago, Brutos said:

Some fan are spoilt and fickle I remember fan's calling Drogba a flop first couple of seasons look how that turned out....form is temporarily class permanent

I do hate that old cliche. Usually gets wheeled out when a player's best days are behind them.

 

2 hours ago, CFCholland said:

We're a bit harsh on him in my opinion. Yes he's missed a few too many big opportunities but we shouldn't give up on him yet.

Our overall play has been pretty terrible this season, most games it's just him and hazard who are responsible for creating our attack. I think any striker would struggle in our current side. He's no Drogba that can hold the ball up between 3 defenders, nor will he ever be. If that's what we wanted we shouldve singed someone else.

We have seen that he's a good footballer, but he isn't getting to show that very often because there is no support. Has he been a bit clumsy these last games? Yes he has, but he's also shown he is good on the ball. Our current form and/or tactics are to blame just as much as Morata in my opinion.

Don't think we are being harsh. He was a "Big" signing and frankly he is in danger of becoming another statistic on our list of expensive strikers who didn't live up to expectations. Fleck, Sutton, Sheva, Torres.............

Don't get me wrong - I like Morata and am praying that he comes good. He does look as though he has all the elements to his game to be a real success. But it seems he is mentally weak. Right now there is certainly something not right and it's making the idea of signing Andy Carroll look a good one - which is obviously not a comfortable thing to admit!!

 

 

it's his first time being the main man from what i'm aware of, and he's in a new league, new system etc. 10 goals, 4 assists in 19 apps is still a decent return considering the aforementioned. strikers miss chances, it happens. 

Need a new striker to take the weight off his shoulders. Seems he is better as the second choice striker.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Need a new striker to take the weight off his shoulders. Seems he is better as the second choice striker.

When we bought Morata, he was keen to emphasise the fact he needed to be the number one striker. Will be interesting to see how Morata responds to this bad period of form, as if he can't get out of it he may well find himself being the second choice striker again.

I agree with the points that it is often left to him and Hazard to make things happen up top (probably unfairly) but despite this I feel he needs to show a bit more than he has in the last few weeks/months.

Surely we buy someone he can play with. Having the option to have two strikers on the pitch would be lovely...

21 minutes ago, rtwelch said:

Surely we buy someone he can play with. Having the option to have two strikers on the pitch would be lovely...

I agree it would be nice but playing with one striker seems the way for most of the top 6 right now (Kane / Lacazette / Firmino / Jesus or Aguero / Lukaku / Morata).

Maybe an impact player could be good if the right one is out there for the final 15/20 minutes of games.

We need someone he can properly compete with for the place, and for rotating. 

He isnt hitting the mark really yet, after a bright start.

Fitness an issue?

Don't think we are being harsh. He was a "Big" signing and frankly he is in danger of becoming another statistic on our list of expensive strikers who didn't live up to expectations. Fleck, Sutton, Sheva, Torres.............
Don't get me wrong - I like Morata and am praying that he comes good. He does look as though he has all the elements to his game to be a real success. But it seems he is mentally weak. Right now there is certainly something not right and it's making the idea of signing Andy Carroll look a good one - which is obviously not a comfortable thing to admit!!
 
 

Because it absolutely true, I remember when Hazard had a horrible season quite a large portion of fan's thought he was finished and calling for the board to get them most for him from real Madrid, modern day fan's are far too impatient.

I'm a huge Morata fan and he's probably one of my favourite players here but if you really think his finishing isn't concerning and it's normal for a top class striker then I don't know what to say. 

I'm sure the only one on ones he's scored was against Stoke City in the away game, and he's had plenty of chances. I'm well aware of how poor Torres was here, Torres missed some sitters but he didn't miss as many one on ones as Morata did. But the reasons for that is quite complex, Torres was never in the right position, he was always playing deep at Chelsea, he completely transitioned from his Liverpool days, clearly, the knee injury took its toll on him. 

I'm not saying Torres was clinical by any means, but I can't remember Torres ever being in a one on one position that many times, with Morata it's like you know he's not going to score. I mean he is making the movement, he is getting the service, but what's the point of it all if he's not finishing it off. I remember Costa missing plenty of chances but I also remember Costa barely getting a chance in a game and he still used to score, that's what type of player he was. I think the Morata really needs to adapt in front of goal, we've seen him bang in plenty at Madrid with his feet, but what's the issue now? Because there clearly is an issue, it's happened too many times. 

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3 hours ago, enigma said:

it's his first time being the main man from what i'm aware of, and he's in a new league, new system etc. 10 goals, 4 assists in 19 apps is still a decent return considering the aforementioned. strikers miss chances, it happens. 

Absolutely, on paper it looks good, but that's on paper. It's like when a striker plays really well but he doesn't score many goals, on paper he looks bad, reality it's different. Morata has been superb at the top, but his finishing has been absolutely woeful.

It's like Ibrahimovic at United last season, on paper he looked absolutely solid, but the reality was much different, he was consistently missing chances, if they had a better forward they probably would have made top 4. I believe he had over 20 clear cut chances missed, some ridiculous stat like that. The stats on Morata might look appealing, but I'm sure I just saw that nobody has missed 3 open chances at the Emirates and failed to score. 

Stats can suit any narrative, if we watch Morata we can tell that in front of goal he has been very sloppy.