Tuchel and Chelsea are failing to capitalise on Lukaku’s specific threat | Barney Ronay

He was billed as the missing piece of the jigsaw but the Belgium striker was increasingly frustrated in the defeat by Juventus

Is it time to talk about Romelu Lukaku? Or rather, to talk about the way in that this mannered Chelsea team still seems to be toying with that final element of its armoury, spinning it on its end, admiring its edges.

Lukaku has been called the final piece in this jigsaw so many times, you wonder what kind of jigsaw this is that can become champions of Europe, with such excess talent available, and still claim to be incomplete.