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£140MILLION for nine goals! That's all flops Romelu Lukaku and Alexandre Lacazette have managed COMBINED so far this season... as Chelsea and Arsenal prepare to go head to head, both managers are massaging egos to galvanise their ailing forwards

Having cost a total fee north of £140million, you might expect Alex Lacazette and Romelu Lukaku to muster double figures between them for Premier League goals.

Yet, with the campaign in its final stretch, one of them has scored four times, two of those from the penalty spot, and the other has five, although none since the turn of the year. A feeble return for two players deployed up front in attacking teams at the right end of the table.

Lukaku, widely hailed as the missing piece in Chelsea's jigsaw, started in some style before spluttering to a halt after injury, Covid and a disagreement with Thomas Tuchel after he pined for a return to Inter Milan in an interview in the Italian media.