LONDON: Romelu Lukaku marks the debut of Chelsea both with his first Premier League goal for the Blues when European champions were defeated Arsenal 2-0 on Sunday to add a sad start to the season.
Belgium has returned to Stamford Bridge for a club record of £ 97 million ($ 132 million) as a missing part of a proven goal scorer to change the Champions League winner into the English champion.
Thomas Tuchel’s troops had made a formidable start to the goal with six points, five goals scored and no one conceded from their two matches from the Premier League season.
Arsenal, on the contrary, have not registered a point or scores as a bay between Mikel Arteta forces and the title competitors are exposed.
The situation had also been against Arteta because he lost £ 50 million signing Ben White before the match to the fifth positive case for Coronavirus among his troops in the last 10 days.
A difficult start can get worse by traveling to Manchester City defense champions weekend before the international break.
The latest signing Arsenal Martin Odegaard and Aaron Ramsdale are not registered on time to display.
Their arrival took the expenditure of the Gunners in the transfer window above the other Premier League club despite the fifth season without Champions League football.
But while Chelsea need to fill only one position to complete the squad that has been stacked with quality, Arsenal seems to start from the beginning.
Starting to be bright in front of the first full house in Emirates for 17 months quickly dissolved so Chelsea found their rhythm and started playing with the power of Lukaku.
The former Inter Milan striker received the ball with his back on his goal on 15 minutes, shrugged Pablo Mari because the ball worked for Reece James on the right and then lived behind to knock on the 114th Premier League goal for four different clubs for four clubs .
Lukaku should be given another on the plate when James instead chose Mason Mount, whose shot was deflected.
But Arsenal did not learn their lessons and provide great room James as rights.
Mountain chose British teammate 10 minutes before half-time and James struggled the brilliant finish past Bernd Leno.
However, James was lucky just before the break when his push on Bukayo Saka as he exploded into the box was not punished by referee Paul Tierney and Var.
Rob Holding must have divided the two deficits of Arsenal after a break when the central defender headed wide from close range.
At the other end, Leno also did his case to postpone Ramsdale as number one there was no harm to the extraordinary rescue to deny his debut debut when he became a bullet header to the crossbar.
Lukaku turned in disbelief when he witnessed a replay on the big screen, but his presence had destroyed eternal doubts about Chelsea’s ability to challenge the city in the title race this season.