Romelu Lukaku has the strongest connection on the pitch with just two players, Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic.
That’s according to Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, who hopes the rest of the team can improve their understanding of the player’s game to benefit the team.
Lukaku netted four goals in his first three matches for Chelsea after rejoining from Inter Milan in the summer transfer window.
But the Belgium international has fired a blank in his last four games that included back-to-back defeats to Manchester City and Juventus.
Chelsea were without Mount for both those losses through injury, and with the player often at the heart of creating chances in the midfield, Tuchel has acknowledged the key role he plays in keeping Lukaku firing.
When told Lukaku looks isolated in attack and asked if there’s still an adjustment taking place for him and the redt of the team, Tuchel said: ‘Yes and no.
‘He was fully involved in the first game against Arsenal, the second half against Tottenham he was involved in creating chances for Timo Werner, Mason in the first half.
‘I think that football right now is about connections, Romelu I feel has a strong connection with Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic.
‘They look for each other and have an understanding, everybody else maybe lacks it a bit so they need to learn and understand and adapt, create better of course.
‘Like I said, we have games where he was fully involved but now we have games like against Manchester City where of course he was isolated, City made him that, our transition did that as well. There will always be matches like this. There is no place to go.
‘Sometimes you have these games so maybe this one is not a reference game.
‘We will talk maybe totally different if he had scored in the 80th minute [against Juventus] which was a chance he normally scores. ‘It is right but nothing major to worry about. We are aware of it.’
