The striker who transformed the mood at Goodison Park with his two FA Cup goals against his former club Chelsea now has Arsenal in his sights as Everton seek to rescue an underperforming seasonRomelu Lukaku relives that barnstorming moment against Chelsea in photographic detail,providing a frame-by-frame account of the goal that illuminated last Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final and brought the billionaire Farhad Moshiri the first return on his investment in Everton.“When I got the ball from Ross [Barkley] I thought he’d get back into the box but I looked up and he was not there,” the Belgium international begins. Methodically, or in more time than it took to shrug aside César Azpilicueta,evade Branislav Ivanovics tackle, step inside Mikel John Obi, and twist Gary Cahill one way then another and find Thibaut Courtois’s bottom corner,Lukaku then explains the thought process behind his 24th goal of a season that has seen him blossom as a centre-forward. It was not fuelled by infuriate, something Alan Shearer suggested in analysis that the striker needs more of. “whether I’m enraged then it’s difficult to play, and ” he responds. It was intelligence.
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Source: theguardian.com