Aligned to everyone’s surprise alongside Romelu Lukaku, the Liège striker ran a lot, tried to hinder the French hinge Upamecano-Saliba. Without the expected success. The fault of a deprivation of good balls in his direction. Article reserved for subscribers By Jean-François Patte Published on 07/01/2024 at 9:16 p.m. Reading time: 3 min
Throughout the last few weeks, Domenico Tedesco has not been far from experimenting. With a more negative than positive balance. The Red Devils coach did it once more, this Monday evening, once morest the Blues by applying an extremely cautious animation with lively elements to surprise the opponents on the counterattack. It is essentially with this in mind that he had once once more seen fit to line up the Lukaku-Openda duo together. An experiment tested in October 2023, in Austria, but which had hardly shone. If the RB Leipzig striker worked hard by multiplying the kilometers on the Düsseldorf pitch, he did not have many balls to negotiate. To his great dismay.
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